about apple lossless....

b16crx69 · b16crx69 #1 (**permalink**)

05-19-2005, 10:02 PM

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

trpnmonkey41 · trpnmonkey41 #2 (**permalink**)

05-19-2005, 10:08 PM

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

b16crx69 · b16crx69 #3 (**permalink**)

05-19-2005, 10:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by trpnmonkey41

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

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

trpnmonkey41 · trpnmonkey41 #4 (**permalink**)

05-19-2005, 10:20 PM

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.

b16crx69 · b16crx69 #5 (**permalink**)

05-19-2005, 10:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by trpnmonkey41

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.

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

technologist · technologist #6 (**permalink**)

05-20-2005, 02:02 AM

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.

trpnmonkey41 #2 (permalink)
Member Since: Jul 22, 2003 Location: Hamilton College Posts: 7,003 Mac Specs: 20" iMac C2D 2.16ghz, 13" MacBook 2.0ghz, 60gb iPod vid, 1gb nano	05-19-2005, 10:08 PM If you are burning copies than import using WAV so you don't lose any quality, then convert to aac Don't forget to use the new User Reputation System
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Member Since: Jul 22, 2003 Location: Hamilton College Posts: 7,003 Mac Specs: 20" iMac C2D 2.16ghz, 13" MacBook 2.0ghz, 60gb iPod vid, 1gb nano	05-19-2005, 10:20 PM 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. Don't forget to use the new User Reputation System
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b16crx69 #1 (permalink)
Member Since: Mar 31, 2005 Posts: 62 Mac Specs: Powermac G4 Dual 1.25/768mb/240g	05-19-2005, 10:02 PM 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
	QUOTE Thanks

technologist #6 (permalink)
Member Since: Mar 30, 2004 Location: USA Posts: 4,744 Mac Specs: 12" Apple PowerBook G4 (1.5GHz)	05-20-2005, 02:02 AM 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.
	QUOTE Thanks

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