Posted by Steve Hix on 12/09/05 21:02

In article <Vr9mf.10189$FP6.387933@wagner.videotron.net>,
NRen2k5 <napsterneorenegade@hotmail.com> wrote:

> 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?

So what?

> People only have it so that they can play the closed Apple formats on
> their PC's.
>
> Most PC media apps use DirectShow.

Which still says nothing about how many PCs might have QT installed, no
matter the reason.

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