Posted by Bruce Hoult on 10/19/05 03:49

In article <dj3s4a$hii$2@mughi.cs.ubc.ca>,
davem@cs.ubc.ca (Dave Martindale) wrote:

> >Personally I rip all my cd's directly to mp3 format in iTunes, change in
> >preference is all that is needed.
>
> But don't you pay a price in space, compared to Apple's own compressed
> format?

Apple don't have their own lossy compression format. Their default
format for ripping in iTunes is AAC, which is the audio part of the
MPEG-4 standard, just as MP3 is the audio part of the MPEG-1 standard.


Apple do have thri own lossless format ("Apple Lossless") that is used
by people willing to use 300 MB for a music CD but not 600 MB. iTunes
can encode and play it, iPods can play it, and the Airport Express can
decode it (when you send music over wifi to the auudio out port on the
Airport Express).

And, yes, it does use more space. I'm not too worrried. Even using MP3
at 160 Kbps instead of AAC at 128 Kbps my 30 GB iPod is still only half
full.

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