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Posted by NRen2k5 on 12/08/05 02:06
news wrote:
> CES said the following on 07/12/2005 09:25 pm:
>
>> All,
>> I'm in the process of re-ripping all of my CD's and I have a few
>> Questions before I start... I have always stayed away from AAC and WMA
>> because of copy protection and their for I have encoded at 328kb in an
>> MP3 format...
>>
>> If you encode using AAC is the file tied to the computer (ie: is copy
>> protection added)? If so is their a way of getting around that??
>
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> If you rip them to .aiff that is a format used by pro apps, and is
> supported by most things you would come across. It's lossless, but so is
> apple lossless and windows lossless. The main thing is that with either
> you may lose some compatibility.
Same goes with .aiff. .aiff is an Apple format. Anf FYI, it isn't
lossless compressed. It's *not compressed*.
>> If you use one of the programs available to remove AAC copy protection
>> do you lose sound quality?
>>
>> If I encode using the AAC Lossless Encoder is their a way of
>> reconstituting the file back into the wav format without losing sound
>> quality?
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>
> CDs use .cda format.
No they don't. The format doesn't use files at all. It's just a stream
of digital audio with a table of contents.
> The only easy way to keep them in this format would
> be to rip the entire Cd to a .DMG in finder. So long as the format is
> lossless it doesn't really matter, except that wma and aac both narrow
> down the compatibility field a bit. AIFF is fine.
AIFF is not fine. Unless you're on a Mac (blech) or using some very
specific studio software, you're better off with WAV.
> If you want lossless but to save some disk space (about 50%), the free
> and open source flac would be a good choice,
I agree!
> just convert back if you want to give them to someone else.
What, why? If someone has the know-how to play around with digital
audio, they will be just fine with FLAC. If they don't, then probably
all they need is MP3.
> There is a flac plugin for iTunes, but I doubt iPods would support it.
The OP didn't make any mention of iTunes or iPod. Sure, they're popular,
but don't just go out and assume that the OP would want to use such
garbage if he could just as easily avoid it.
- NRen2k5
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