Posted by NRen2k5 on 12/09/05 06:26

Steve Hix wrote:
> 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.

You're right. But do you know about the scope?

People only have it so that they can play the closed Apple formats on
their PC's.

Most PC media apps use DirectShow.

- NRen2k5

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