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Some music questions from a newbie - please be kind
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<blockquote data-quote="Jem" data-source="post: 279397" data-attributes="member: 19842"><p>Hi John, welcome to the board, I did the same a few months ago along with several others here and made the switch from long time PC user to iMac so hopefully you'll have as good an experience as I've had so far!</p><p></p><p>Wav format is cross-platform, although audio CDs aren't directly WAV files y'know. What you probably want to do is use the iTunes import function to bring your audio CDs onto the Mac. It can rip them to mp3 or WAV or a series of Apple formats. You can then burn them out to a regular audio CD using something like Roxio Toast (although someone may correct me and show a way of doing it without toast?)</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Pass - there are a variety of utilities for ripping DVDs to various formats, Mac The Ripper and Handbrake spring to mind, as to whether they can extract the audio into its own file, I'm not positive but I wouldn't think you'd have any difficulty doing this.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>iPods play a few different formats including MP3, AAC, AIFF, Apple Lossless and WAV files. You can setup what quality / format you want to import your audio CDs to in the Preferences of iTunes.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I must admit I've never used iTunes, I have a heap of CDs and like the physical bit of music ownership still (just call me old fashioned! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />) so I'll have to leave this for someone else to answer definitively. Actually, you've reminded me, a mate did download an album some time ago but iTunes took his money and then offered him a 128kb/s download. He's a bit of an audiophile and was a lot less than happy with this as the quality wasn't good enough for him. Perhaps this has changed but it's worth checking out...</p><p></p><p>What's your scheduled delivery date and which model have you bought?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jem, post: 279397, member: 19842"] Hi John, welcome to the board, I did the same a few months ago along with several others here and made the switch from long time PC user to iMac so hopefully you'll have as good an experience as I've had so far! Wav format is cross-platform, although audio CDs aren't directly WAV files y'know. What you probably want to do is use the iTunes import function to bring your audio CDs onto the Mac. It can rip them to mp3 or WAV or a series of Apple formats. You can then burn them out to a regular audio CD using something like Roxio Toast (although someone may correct me and show a way of doing it without toast?) Pass - there are a variety of utilities for ripping DVDs to various formats, Mac The Ripper and Handbrake spring to mind, as to whether they can extract the audio into its own file, I'm not positive but I wouldn't think you'd have any difficulty doing this. iPods play a few different formats including MP3, AAC, AIFF, Apple Lossless and WAV files. You can setup what quality / format you want to import your audio CDs to in the Preferences of iTunes. I must admit I've never used iTunes, I have a heap of CDs and like the physical bit of music ownership still (just call me old fashioned! ;)) so I'll have to leave this for someone else to answer definitively. Actually, you've reminded me, a mate did download an album some time ago but iTunes took his money and then offered him a 128kb/s download. He's a bit of an audiophile and was a lot less than happy with this as the quality wasn't good enough for him. Perhaps this has changed but it's worth checking out... What's your scheduled delivery date and which model have you bought? [/QUOTE]
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