Hi Andre. It would be wrong to say that two pass was almost lossless because you're still using a lossy compression to encode the music. However, you can say that two pass is of a higher quality than a file encoded at the same bit rate but using one pass.
Regards. Kevin E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "André van Deventer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'PC audio discussion list. '" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> Sent: Friday, June 30, 2006 11:32 AM Subject: RE: WMA ONEPASS AND TWOPASS Hi Kevin Thanks. The speed is not the important thing for me here but the quality of the sound. So the twopass one would be almost without loss then? Andre -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Lloyd Sent: 30 June 2006 11:20 AM To: PC audio discussion list. Subject: Re: WMA ONEPASS AND TWOPASS Hi Andre. Selection of passes to make for preprocessing: One-pass encoding: audio content is analyzed and compressed at the same time. Two-pass encoding: audio content is analyzed in the first pass, and then the best combinations of bit rate, frame rate, buffer size, and image quality are applied during the second pass. Two-pass encoding produces a better-quality result but the process takes longer. Regards. Kevin E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "André van Deventer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'PC audio discussion list. '" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> Sent: Friday, June 30, 2006 9:07 AM Subject: WMA ONEPASS AND TWOPASS > Hi all > > Wonder if some of you computer fundis out there may have an answer for me on > this one. > > I use allofmp3.com quite a lot and have been wondering which encoding would > be the best. It seems as if not all the available music is available in > lossless formats. > > The best I can seem to get which will also be able to play on my iriver 320 > is wma twopass. But what does the twopass actually mean? > > Regards > > Andre > > > _______________________________________________ > PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > http://www.pc-audio.org > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > This list is a service of MosenExplosion.com. To see what other lists we offer, visit us on the web at http://www.MosenExplosion.com _______________________________________________ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This list is a service of MosenExplosion.com. To see what other lists we offer, visit us on the web at http://www.MosenExplosion.com _______________________________________________ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This list is a service of MosenExplosion.com. To see what other lists we offer, visit us on the web at http://www.MosenExplosion.com _______________________________________________ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This list is a service of MosenExplosion.com. To see what other lists we offer, visit us on the web at http://www.MosenExplosion.com
