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WAV to ALAC

post #1 of 5
9/14/11 at 2:54pm
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WAV to ALAC any thoughts? I don't seem to hear a loss in quality and a little gain in space :)

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post #2 of 5
9/14/11 at 2:59pm

There's no loss in quality. ALAC uses lossless compression. What you put in is exactly what you get, just a different size.

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post #3 of 5
9/14/11 at 3:03pm
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Originally Posted by Head Injury View Post

There's no loss in quality. ALAC uses lossless compression. What you put in is exactly what you get, just a different size.



Alright thanks so when you convert lossless to lossless there is no loss in quality? if so I am going to start buying only flac and or wav and convert it to ALAC because I mainly use Itunes to listen and sync my music (foobar2000 sometimes just for hardcore listen HAHA) and It also takes up less space.

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post #4 of 5
9/14/11 at 3:17pm

No loss in quality. Lossless is lossless.  Wav has a constant bitrate while FLAC and ALAC have a variable bitrate.


Edited by Radioking59 - 9/14/11 at 3:23pm
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post #5 of 5
9/14/11 at 3:49pm
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No loss in quality. Lossless is lossless.  Wav has a constant bitrate while FLAC and ALAC have a variable bitrate.



thank you!

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