thank you
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itunes vs Exact Audio Copy vs dbpoweramp
So is there really a big difference between all of them from what i hear. EAC will not have any errors. and so if you hear any crackles or artifacts in your lossless music. it means there was some error and you should go back and do it through EAC? so should i be using EAC from now on instead of itunes-->ALAC?
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Clipping/over excursions
This is when you either hear a crackle,pop or metalic sound right due to not enough amp power in and the loudness war right?
One of my songs "Iridescent" by linkin park has this problem. it sounds like it might just be a bad error. When the majority of background music cuts out and it's just the soloist signing. you can hear little fuzzy artificat cracks tricle across the high vocals.
This is probably due to the bad ripping right? I downloaded from two different downloads, both had same problem. they could just be using teh same main download source though.
Ok just tested Shadow of the Day by Linkin Park. on my 2010 macbook pro. it had no problems playing with no cracks and anything. i used the macbook pro for the top song too. however, when i plug my headphones into my ipod and play the same FLAC song back. i hear many driver made cracks and pops. is this due to clipping and or overexcursing from not enough power? This happens with a couple songs
I heard pops in some of my songs. some say it's do to clipping or overexersion from
24bit? all the songs i hear the cracks and pops from are from my linkin park minutes to midnights album. all in FLAC but in 24bit. could 24bit and 48KHz be doing this on my ipod? I remember reading that 24bit is just an increased dynamic range. and i know what sampling rate is. on the ipod. can it automatically switch to 24bit and 48KHz or does it just stay 16bit @ 44.1KHz the whole time? if it does. could this be causing the problem..unlikely right. i didn't change my MAcbook's setting to outpu in 24bit and 48KHz. i do that on my PC. but my PC's DAC is not nearly as good as the Cirrus Logic and whatever amp in my macbook pro.
could it be a combo of 24bit, 48KHz that isnt' supported on the ipod, added in with the pretty big 1666kbps ALAC and not enough power on the ipod?
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ALAC/FLAC decoding?
ok so what i think happens is this. you endode a song into ALAC or FLAC. and when you play it back on your music player. it decodes it. and uncompresses the compressed FLAC or ALAC file. which would then result in larger bit rate ...is this correct.?
Thank you very much for you and anyone that can answer these questions...i don't know if these are advanced questions, i've been on head fi for a while. but sound science has really been my low knowledge base