Posted by NRen2k5 on 04/12/06 08:24

George Graves wrote:
> I don't know how sophisticated your "ear" is but to me, the most
> important feature of the iPod/iTunes is the ability to use Apple's
> Lossless Encoding (ALE) scheme rather than MP3 which I abhor.

Golden ears, huh? Or are you just comparing with iTunes MP3 encoder
(which sucks)?

> The ALE makes files that are a bit larger than the highest quality
> MP3 [...]

That's exaggerating things a little, don't you think? The highest
quality MP3 is 320kbps. The lowest
bitrates you'll ever see with ALE for real music are about 600kbps.
That's almost double the size.

- NRen2k5

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