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do you rip to Apple Lossless?

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XSF

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Jun 30, 2007
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topic title says it all.... what do you encode with in iTunes? I just started the lossless and I'm liking the quality so far (coming from 128kpbs)
 
its Advanced Audio Coding, its not created or owned by apple

and yes, it supposed to be the successor of MP3, and is promoted by MP3's creator as such.
 
Lossless is very nice, but up to 10 times the file size and the difference in quality will only be noticable with good equipment and good ears.
I have quite a few files in lossless as well as all the other various sound file formats; aac, mp3, SDII, aiff, wav. depending on where they come from or how important they are.
 
I'll switch to lossless when they come up with a 64gig flash card Iphone, until then I'm stuck with 128
 
Yes.

Clevin. The poster is referring to Apple lossless, which is Apples. Not AAC. There is a difference.
 
I rip everything to FLAC and that is stored as a digital backup on external hard drives.. I then encode that copy to what I need.
 
suneohair said:
Yes.

Clevin. The poster is referring to Apple lossless, which is Apples. Not AAC. There is a difference.
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that's what I thought, I was wondering if I was crazy.... he seemed so confident in his answer.

Thanks for clearing this up.
 
I ripped my entire cd collection in apple lossless for archival purposes. I also run firefly on an old G4 cube that serves up these lossless files to Roku soundbridges I have connected to my audio equipment. This way I have instant access to cd quality audio. For my iPods and iPhone, I batch generated mp3s using dbpoweramp/LAME (mid quality VBR - equivalent file size to 160kbs). LAME is a better encoder than what's built into iTunes.

-Steve
 
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