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>>16449299
>Again, this should make absolutely no difference for listening, but it DOES have an effect on audible data when encoded down through future generations. Basically, it's the audio version of saving an image as a JPEG over and over again - the first one might be indistinguishable from the original, but the 20th will be utter incomprehensible garbage.

This is a little overenthusiastic. Repeated re-encoding does cause larger drops in quality, but when you're using fairly high-fidelity compression like 320k mp3, the difference will still be very subtle, and certainly not "utter incomprehensible garbage". Of course, there's no sense in doing such a thing, because you're throwing away fidelity with no gain in compression, so on a philosophical level it's a stupid thing to do.