JonasRas
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Is Apple lossless as good as Free lossless audio codec? If not what's the differencen?
I remember reading somewhere that Apple Lossless was optimized for battery life on decode. This might explain the slightly larger compressed files. But now, of course I can't find the link.
ALAC was open sourced. FLAC compresses a little better. ALAC doesn't have any compression parameters.
Hi, I am about to take all of Cd's and put them into my macbook pro to download them into my iTunes music library. when attempt to do this will my mac automatically use ALAC to convert my Cd's to my iTunes library, or do I have to choose this from an outside source, or choose it from a menu option on iTunes?
I am totally new to this type of digital music playing, I currently use a Cd player but I want to use both, and I have been doing a lot of research on these different files, but still find it a little confusing being that I've never did this before. If I use iTunes initially to purchase music and don't like the sound quality from iTunes and want to use another music streamer, can I convert to a different streamer and still use my music through iTunes menu?
Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you very much.
Hi, I am about to take all of Cd's and put them into my macbook pro to download them into my iTunes music library. when attempt to do this will my mac automatically use ALAC to convert my Cd's to my iTunes library, or do I have to choose this from an outside source, or choose it from a menu option on iTunes?
I am totally new to this type of digital music playing, I currently use a Cd player but I want to use both, and I have been doing a lot of research on these different files, but still find it a little confusing being that I've never did this before. If I use iTunes initially to purchase music and don't like the sound quality from iTunes and want to use another music streamer, can I convert to a different streamer and still use my music through iTunes menu?
Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you very much.
..I'd suggest converting your CDs as 240 or 320 AACs, btw, NOT ALACs. Nothing except Apple hw will play ALACs, and 240 and certainly 320 aac should sound identical but will be smaller and play on a wide range of DAPs.
Personally, I'd choose FLAC because it's more widely supported, but the OP uses Apple hardware, and Saint Steven is still trying to protect his children from FLAC, even from beyond the grave...
Yup. Agreed. Someday...perhaps...FLAC will be supported in iTunes. Let's just say I've put in my request. Until then, no good reason not to do Apple Lossless for iTunes rips.
Saint Steven...still going in and out of the garden??? With a rose???
Of course, he wouldn't leave his rose behind, would he?