Posted by Steve Hix on 12/09/05 03:45

In article <1a1mf.9904$S93.119684@weber.videotron.net>,
NRen2k5 <napsterneorenegade@hotmail.com> wrote:

> ZnU wrote:
> > In article <dn7taj$pgk$1@reader01.news.esat.net>,
> > news <nospamatall@iol.ie> 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??
> >>
> >>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.
> >
> >
> > Apple Lossless should be usable by anything which uses QuickTime to
> > handle audio, which is quite a lot.
> >
> > [snip]
> >
>
> On the Mac, I suppose. I'll bet you love your QuickTime.

QuickTime is pretty widely used on Windows PCs, too.

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