@dan I worked in film sound (post-production) in the late 90s, just as everyone had switched to computers. I had two sound editors tell me to never put a WAV file in a zip, because it would ruin the audio quality.
@gilhova @dan I'll see your zip-file argument (which I've also had re. audio & graphics) and raise you the professor that didn't want students storing files on Iomega Zip drives for the "same" (i.e. name-collision with "zip" and zip is bad) reason. :flan_facepalm:
talk of lossy-vs-non-lossy never sank in.
@ed1conf That's a good one!
I had a computer repair instructor who insisted that you shouldn't put a magnet too close to a CD-ROM, or you'd erase it. Like, mind, this person *taught computer repair.*
@gilhova @dan @lunareclipse @FritzAdalis
I see they've graduated from “analog audio crudely encoded in mechanical wobbles is better actually” and have moved on to [checks notes] debating differences in audio quality in situations where there being any difference at all is mathematically impossible.
Fascinating.