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RE: need help understanding external hard drives

Posted by AbeCollins (A) on December 10, 2014 at 19:17:41

In Reply to: RE: need help understanding external hard drives posted by learsfool on December 10, 2014 at 19:06:16:

If you plan to use iTunes as your audio player, be sure to 'rip' your CDs to an uncompressed format like AIFF or WAV. If you use compression, choose a lossless compression like Apple Lossless (ALAC). Do you use AAC or MP3.

Most of my collection are in AIFF uncompressed or Apple Lossless (ALAC) compression. Apple Lossless which is similar to FLAC will achieve about 50% compression on the file size to save disk space with virtually no effect on the sound quality.

If you choose to rip the CDs with iTunes be sure to go into iTunes > Preferences > General Tab > Import Settings >

then choose AIFF Encoder or Apple Lossless Encoder and check the box for "Use Error Correction".

If you think you might try other players in the future, and possibly the FLAC format, it is simple enough to convert from AIFF to FLAC and other formats.

Enjoy.

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