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Thank you for your well-written and educated response, Lotesdelere! Over the past couple weeks I've become familiar with a lot of those codecs, my primary dilemma being that I wasn't sure if "lossy" meant "permanently lost". Now I know though, thanks a bunch! EDIT: Would you also...

Fairly new to this, but here it goes: I have a track from a CD encoded as an MP3 with a bitrate of 128kbps. My main is question is this; if this MP3 was originally ripped from a CD as a WAV, is there any way of decoding (interchangeable with decompressing?) this MP3 back to its original state with W...