[X4U] itunes aac & aiff

[Eugene]

On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 05:08:45PM CDT, alexandre <mac at kapellos.com> wrote:
>
> On 6 août 07, at 22:54, B. Kuestner wrote:
>>
>> And just to explain why:
>>
>> Because importing in AIFF is lossless. So the data is as good as the 
>> original.
>>
>> And compressing from AIFF is thus as good as compressing from the 
>> original.
>
> last time that happened, i imported 6 cds as mp3? i knew that converting 
> those to aac could only make things worse!

Converting MP3 files to AAC files will make things worse because
the source material (i.e. the MP3 files) is already degraded, so the
conversion will result in AAC files that are even more degraded but
may be smaller in file size.  If you rip from the original source
(i.e. your CDs), the resulting AAC files will sound better than the
AAC files converted from MP3 files.


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Eugene
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