I`ll take a stab and say its probably lossless quality, meaining no compression whatsoever. The same kind of terminology is used when refering to audio on Blu Ray films for example.

anthonynputson, March 29, 2010; 12:34 PM

Ah, so thats it . Thanks for quick reply

gerry.hill, March 29, 2010; 1:10 PM

Hi, lossy (mp3, AAC...) is simply the contrary of lossless audio quality (CD, Wave, FLAC...).

milio.latimer, March 29, 2010; 8:39 PM

Lossy codecs throw out some data to save space when
compressing an uncompressed .wav file and with it goes some
audio quality. How much depends on the codec and level of
compression.

Lossless compression achieves smaller files sizes without
throwing out any data - a bit like .zip/.rar archives.


Lossy mastered discs are obviously of lesser quality than proper
lossless mastered discs as the final audio on the disc has been
compressed with a lossy codec, i.e. audio quality has been compromised.

Konami's 'Silent Hill: Homecoming', Singular Soundtracks's recent
'Santa Claus: The Movie' and Silvestri's soundtrack to 'GI Joe'
were all infamously lossy mastered.

mobius01, April 1, 2010; 8:30 PM

As I recall reading, only some of the "G.I. Joe" cues were lossy.


And two things surprising number of people get confused over:

1. Converting MP3s to FLAC, does not make it "lossless".

2. Burning MP3s to CD-R, does not make it "lossless".


Having a score on CD-R from trade does not automatically make it lossless.

tharpdevenport, April 2, 2010; 2:01 PM

Yeah, it is quite alarming the number of people who think
transcoding an mp3 file to .wav, .flac, .ape, etc causes an increase in
quality.

mobius01, April 3, 2010; 8:54 AM