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Re: Apple question - AIFF/M4A?

I'm going thru this process myself and am ripping to apple lossless. Lossless should be lossless but opinions may differ. I do know that you can't regain info that has already been lost so if apple lossless does lose info, you can't regain it by changing an apple lossless file to aiff. If you think that aiff is better then you should rip directly to aiff.

Because apple lossless is a smaller file doesn't necessarily make it lossy/less fidelity. It could just be a better compression program getting rid of more empty information. Rip some songs that you are very familiar with into both formats and listen critically. It is all about the music and what sounds good to you.


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