[X4U] Which format for Music?

[Jim Warthman]

Tom,
I loaded my entire CD collection (several hundred) into iTunes, and it's
great! I had similar goals to yours, and did much research before deciding
upon Apple Lossless Encoder (ALE). Yes, it takes up more space. And yes,
hard drives are getting cheaper all the time! With ALE, I am assured that,
when I stream music to my home theater system via Airport Express, I hear
essentially the same quality music as if I were playing the original CD
directly through my home theater system. If you ever decide to stream music
with Airport Express in this way, it's interesting to note that iTunes will
convert your music to ALE from whatever format it's in before sending to the
Airport Express.

Enjoy!

-- Jim


On 2005-08-13 2:04 PM, "Thomas Bulat" <tombulat at comcast.net> wrote:

> Hi,
> I plan on loading a number of my CDs into iTunes, and I noticed that
> Apple gives you the choice of the following encodings:
> AAC Encoder
> AIFF Encoder
> Apple Lossless Encoder
> MP3 Encoder
> WAV Encoder
> 
> I want the highest fidelity lossless encoder for the music.
> 
> Which one should I use?
> 
> Thanks in advance, and so long for now, TOM
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