Hello--

Suppose you rip a CD to your hard drive using the Apple Lossless codec. You later burn the encoded files back to audio CD. Does the second, burned CD equal the first in terms of sound quality, or does some information become "lost in the translation"?

Thanks,

--Tim

The name says it all. Lossless. The same is true for all uncompressed or Lossless formats.

The initial rip may be bad, ie have pops and clicks. Also it won't be identical, drive offsets, pre-gaps, missing lead-in and/or lead out etc.

Unless things go wrong though, or you are particulary anal, then yes, the quality will be the same if the codec was a lossless codec.

Kristian