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sound formats

Posted by James Steele on 2001-04-15

Although this has nothing to do with programming, I feel there has to be someone out 
there who can answer this.

I have a .wav file in this format:  PCM 22,050 Hz, 16 Bit, Mono.  There are many files 
like this, and I want to burn them to CDs.  To do this, I need to change the format to CD-
quality (44,100 16 Bit, stereo).  But when I try to do this using Window's converter, it 
sounds worse in CD quality than it did in the lower form!  I get buzzing, ringing, distortion 
and all sorts of other noise when I translate it like that.

My question is:  is it even possible to take a sound file of non-CD quality and convert it to 
CD quality and have it sound exactly the same?  I doubt it, but I'm not sure; that's why I'm 
asking.

Thanks.