Posted by Stimpy on 11/16/14 11:36

On 4/1/06 22:19, "NRen2k5" wrote:
>
> Elliott Roper <nospam@yrl.co.uk> wrote:
>> Are you asserting that Apple destroys mp3 encoded material on playback
>> or that they encode it badly?
>
> They encode it badly.
>
> What I mean is, if you pop a CD in your drive, and use iTunes to make a
> set of MP3's from it and a set of AAC's from it, the AAC's will sound
> much better. Why? Apple will have you think that it's because AAC is
> waaay better. It's really just because the MP3's iTunes makes are
> absolutely crummy compared to the ones a good encoder like LAME will make.
>
> You'd be surprised at the quality LAME can give you maybe even at 128kbps.

So why not just use LAME with iTunes? Problem solved and the you get the
best of both worlds

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