Welcome to www.u2mp3s.com exclusive downloads page. I will be periodically adding more files, but for now I have a few tunes and a couple apps that are must have's for anyone ripping music.

Enjoy!

-Mel

Words to Know:

Transcode

Transcoding is the direct digital-to-digital conversion from one (usually lossy) codec to another. It involves decoding/decompressing the original data to a raw intermediate format (i.e. PCM for audio or YUV for video), in a way that mimics standard playback of the lossy content, and then re-encoding this into the target format.

Transcoding can also refer to recompressing files to a lower bitrate without changing formats.

Compression artifacts are cumulative, therefore transcoding between lossy codecs causes a progressive loss of quality with each successive generation. For this reason, it is generally discouraged unless unavoidable. For instance, if an individual owns a digital audio player that does not support a particular format (i.e. Apple iPod and Ogg Vorbis), then the only way for the owner to use content encoded in that format is to transcode it to a supported format. It is better to retain a copy in a lossless format (such as TTA, FLAC or WavPack), then encode directly from the lossless source file to the lossy formats required. 1

Lossless

Lossless data compression is a class of data compression algorithms that allows the exact original data to be reconstructed from the compressed data. This can be contrasted to lossy data compression, which does not allow the exact original data to be reconstructed from the compressed data. 2

Lossy

A lossy data compression method is one where compressing data and then decompressing it retrieves data that may well be different from the original, but is "close enough" to be useful in some way. This type of compression is used frequently on the Internet and especially in streaming media and telephonycodecs in this context. This is in contrast with lossless data compression. Depending on the design of the format lossy data compression often suffers from generation loss, that is compressing and decompressing multiple times will do more damage to the data than doing it once. 3

(Coming soon... Torrent, Clever, Seeder, Leecher, Mp3, Wav, FLAC, SHN, VBR, CBR)