Regarding John Ford, Don "the hoser" Gaynor, and Pat Marr-

I believe this is the principal strength of that Audacity "package" - a very complete selection of open-source software constantly upgraded by users; all of whom are musicians.
Including the FLAC codec - http://flac.sourceforge.net/ - which will encode lossless compression at up to 24 bits. (be sure you have dithering turned off when using FLAC in Audacity, or the files will not be bit-for-bit identical)


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