about apple lossless....

I was just sitting here thinking about burning music and had a thought. Is it true that if you wanted to make a high quality sound copy of a cd one should import with apple lossless and burn from that? Would the sound quality differ from a cd burned from...lets say.... 160kbs files? I ask because I've been importing cd's using Lossless, burning a copy, and then converting the music to aac in order to save drive space. Am I wasting my time with this method or am I thinking on the right track? Thanks

If you are burning copies than import using WAV so you don't lose any quality, then convert to aac

trpnmonkey41 said:

If you are burning copies than import using WAV so you don't lose any quality, then convert to aac

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Is WAV comparible to AIFF? What's the difference between the two?

WAV and AIFF are basically the exact same thing. Reason I suggest using WAV instead of apple lossless is since you are converting it back to AAC anyways so there is no point in compressing it with Apple Lossless.

trpnmonkey41 said:

WAV and AIFF are basically the exact same thing. Reason I suggest using WAV instead of apple lossless is since you are converting it back to AAC anyways so there is no point in compressing it with Apple Lossless.

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Thanks...I suppose that I will start using wav or aiff.

To clarify what trpnmonkey41 said in #2, there is no quality difference between AIFF, WAV, Apple Lossless, and the original CD. Lossless files are about 50-40% smaller than AIFF or WAV, but require more processing power to generate. Which means, importing will be slower.

As trpnmonkey41 said in #4, f you were keeping the files, Lossless would take up about half the space, but if you're re-compressing them down to AAC, then you might as well use AIFF or WAV as they will import faster.