[X4U] How To Anti-Encode Audio File

[DZ-Jay]

On Apr 23, 2005, at 13:46, Dave Checkman wrote:

>
> I went ahead and encoded an audio file in AIFF format into MP3 (using 
> iTunes). Now I'm stuck. I didn't leave myself a copy of the original 
> AIFF and I need it.
>
> Is there a way (a free way, hopefully) of taking this MP3 file and 
> encoding it back into AIFF. Any help will be much appreciated.
>

Although technically you can convert it to an AIFF file, you won't get 
the original file.  MP3 uses a "lossy" compression algorithm, and 
basically depends on eliminating certain frequencies that supposedly 
are not perceived by the majority of people, so by its very nature, the 
mp3 file is a lower quality version of the original AIFF.  If you don't 
care about this and only need the file in an AIFF format, just use 
iTunes to convert it.

	dZ.