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  • adverb In a lossless manner.

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  • Try to do any more than that and the best you'll be able to do is modify (decompress, edit, then recompress) some sub-blocks of the image (8x8 or 16x16 pixel regions) and then preserve the remaining blocks "losslessly".

    doggdot.us 2009

  • A couple of years ago I built myself a music server—a computer dedicated to playing music that currently stores more than 300 gigabytes of losslessly compressed music that is, better than your average MP3s, which it outputs through a high-quality Benchmark digital-to-analog converter.

    All Hail ... Analog? Francis Fukuyama 2011

  • I have a nice collection of all my audio accessible via DAAP (using mt-daapd) and I play perfect losslessly compressed rips whenever I want (with Rhythmbox).

    Advisor: What should I do with my high school CD collection? Boing Boing 2010

  • It's not mentioned specifically, but is it safe to assume this is losslessly editing the MP3, rather than encoding to WAV, then back to MP3?

    MP3Extractor Flags And Separates Large MP3 Files | Lifehacker Australia 2009

  • If you could output the individual frames in a losslessly compressed format like GIF or better, PNG, and turn those into an MPEG, that might improve matters.

    In case the folks at Pixar read my blog, I would consider relocating for a permanent position. Angry Professor 2007

  • You realize that by disabling autorun on your CD drive and just ripping with Exact Audio Copy to FLAC, you can keep all your CDs losslessly archived at about half the size.

    Ritholtz on DRM and p2p 2005

  • DRM is normally viewed as an issue in the world of digital content, which can be duplicated losslessly.

    DRM in the Analogue World glyn moody 2007

  • You realize that by disabling autorun on your CD drive and just ripping with Exact Audio Copy to FLAC, you can keep all your CDs losslessly archived at about half the size.

    Ritholtz on DRM and p2p 2005

  • Although RLGR encoding compresses data losslessly, RFX codec performs a lossy compression on graphic data.

    Site Home Obaid Farooqi 2011

  • That results in a plain MPEG file which should convert losslessly to a. vob for burning onto a standard video DVD.

    Perth Penguinista 2010

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