[X4U] importing audio CD as AIFF

Kirk McElhearn kirklists at wanadoo.fr
Thu Apr 28 02:43:37 PDT 2005


On Apr 28, 2005, at 11:28 AM, Eugene wrote:

> Apple's Lossless Audio Codec does not preserve CD-specific stuff like
> the TOC.  So things like CDDB will no longer work for that CD, if you
> plan to make a backup of an Audio CD that you want to work just like
> the original.  If you care about that stuff.

Actually, the CDDB will work - if you import tracks with iTunes, you  
can query the CDDB at a later time (say if you don't have an Internet  
connection when importing) and get track info.


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