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In Reply to: Re: newbie help AL vs. AIFF posted by head_unit on May 19, 2004 at 09:57:06:
To access Apple Lossless in iTunes 4.5, select Preferences, then Importing, then "Apple Lossless Encoder". Any CDs you now rip will be in Apple Lossless format. I've compared these to AIFF files (by converting back) and they are bit-for-bit identical and therefore should sound the same. Unlike AAC, you can (at a later date) convert these back to AIFF (or WAV) and then to any other non-lossy format with no loss of information.I've ripped nearly 29 days of music (about 170GB) and the files have an average of 542kbs, which is a compression ratio of 2.6. All my music is classical which I gather compresses better than rock. I found 320kbs AAC excellent on my iPod but the difference in sizes between this and what I'm getting with Apple Lossless no longer warrants keeping lossy files.
I hope this helps.
Stephen
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- Re: newbie help AL vs. AIFF - Stephen 15:48:14 05/19/04 (4)
- Compression ratio and classical music - Jsterritt 08:56:22 05/21/04 (1)
- Tagging classical music - Stephen 16:20:21 05/21/04 (0)
- Duh, guess I gotta open my eyes - head_unit 17:03:44 05/19/04 (1)
- Re: Duh, guess I gotta open my eyes - Stephen 17:16:05 05/19/04 (0)
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