Posted by George Graves on 04/12/06 17:26

In article <cO2%f.59482$g23.734032@wagner.videotron.net>,
NRen2k5 <napsterneorenegade@hotmail.com> wrote:

> 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)?

Golden or lead, I can hear artifacts in every MP3 I've ever listened to
irrespective of where and with what it was encoded. Don't like what I
hear.

> > 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

All I can tell you is that I've got about 26 hours worth of music on my
20 Gig iPod and I've only used about 7 gigs. Seems like a lot to me, but
I guess YMMV.

--
George Graves
The health of our society is a direct result of the men
and women we choose to admire.

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