[X4U] importing audio CD as AIFF

[Kirk McElhearn]

On Apr 30, 2005, at 2:08 AM, revDAVE wrote:

>> That's what I use, but being new to Macs, I gotta ask... can anybody
>> think of a downside to using Apple Lossless?  From what I understand,
>> it is just a compressed form of AIFF, and being lossless, it is  
>> able to
>> be decompressed to its original bit-stream.
>>
>
>
> Personally ... I would bet that many pro musicians and engineers would
> highly doubt that it is able to be decompressed to its 'original'
> bit-stream.

You lose! Lossless compression for music works the same way as, say,  
zip compression for other types of files. When you decompress a file,  
you don't lose any letters, words or digits, do you?


Kirk

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