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From: "Steve Simon" <steve@quintile.net>
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 01:39:50 +0000
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Subject: Re: [9fans] music storage
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i don't understand this claim.  all standard audio cds are in pcm format.

I was not clear.

If you download wav or raw pcm files via bittorrent et al the tel-l-tail
signature of MP3 encoding can often be found. i.e the files which claim to be rips
directly from CDs are in fact decoded low bitrate MP3 files.

I would not claim that this is always the case, but in my experiments
(testing audio quality assurance software which is designed to
detect this kind of thing) I was surprised how common it is.

-Steve