Posted by TheLetterK on 12/08/05 01:55

CES wrote:
> 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??
The copyright protection applied to iTMS files is totally separate from
AAC. Unlike WMV, there is no copy protection built into AAC,

>
> If you use one of the programs available to remove AAC copy protection
> do you lose sound quality?
Depends on how they go about removing the copy protection, but I
wouldn't think so.

>
> 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?
Apple Lossless and AAC are two different formats. Apple Lossless is,
just as the name describes, totally lossless. It's why they're so much
larger than AAC files.

>
> Does anyone know of an application that will allow you to put in a CD
> and then with one push of the button rip the CD in multiple formats
> (MP3, AAC, WMA) at the same time?
Why would you want to?

> By that I mean most video editing
> programs will allow you to take one source and then export it to
> multiple formats.
I'm not aware of one, but I've never actually looked. There might be.


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