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In Reply to: Apple Lossless Conjecture posted by Jsterritt on May 19, 2004 at 15:17:31:
Guys,First AL is not based on AAC. AL is like Zip for audio files. What goes in comes out.
John Atkinson and several others as myself have done tests. AIFF->AL->AIFF and the first and the last compare right up. That would indicate that the files are kept in tack. I also did some major listening before I took my entire AIFF lib and converted it too AL.
Yes you can with the latest iPod update use AL files on your iPod. They do sound the best to me and at least then I know I have the exact copy and not one that sounds about the same on the iPod.
At CES last year when I released the Cosecant USB DAC. I talked to a ton of people that had iPods. Everyone was using AIFF then. I am sure next year it will be AL. Thanks Apple, saved me 5G's on my iPod and Hardisk.
FYI 2 things to not if you convert....
1) Converting AAC to AL is worthless the file will be larger and will not contain any more info.
2) You will have to delete all the AIFF when you have converted them. This means any playlists you have with those files in it disapear.
Ok how to convert....
Select a list of songs that are AIFF (I guess also WAV would work).
Go into Preferences->Importing and select Apple Losless
Go to Advanced->Convert
The selected files will be duplicated into AL format. When done simply delected the selected list (AIFF files). Notice the improved disk space :)
Thanks
Gordon
J. Gordon Rankin
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- iPod update, Apple Lossless info, AIFF-)AL Converting help. - Gordon Rankin 13:22:29 05/20/04 (0)
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