DavidMahler
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I couldn't Help but notice a difference in the size of some files when ripping wavs to Apple Lossless......... is dBPowerAmp okay for ripping to Apple Lossless?
Originally Posted by krmathis /img/forum/go_quote.gif iTunes use the Apple Lossless encoder built into QuickTime (the "real deal"). While dBpoweramp use a reverse engineered encoder. The dBpoweramp encoder is not perfect, as in that it have caused playback issues on iPods and it also do not support high-resolution content. Would not be surprised if there are file size differences as well. |
Originally Posted by DavidMahler /img/forum/go_quote.gif If I convert the dbPoweramp ALAC with itunes into a new ALAC file......will this be ok? |
Originally Posted by Ham Sandwich /img/forum/go_quote.gif I would expect so. The ALAC encoder that dBpoweramp uses is lossless. So conversions should be lossless as well. The trick will be in figuring out how to get iTunes to re-encode the dBpoweramp ALAC files to iTunes ALAC files. I'm not sure how to go about doing the conversion. I don't use iTunes so I'm not familiar with its exact workings. If iTunes won't convert the dBpoweramp ALAC files directly you would have to take a round-about way by doing something like first converting the files to WMA Lossless using dBpoweramp or something similar then having iTunes convert the WMA Lossless files to iTunes ALAC. iTunes for Windows will read WMA Lossless files. I don't have much trust in the open source implementation of the ALAC encoder/decoder. It was created by reverse engineering without any benefit of even a technical specification from Apple. It is also limited to 16-bit files only. It can't guarantee perfect compatibility with Apple's ALAC encoder/decoder. It is not something I would trust my library to as a primary or archival format. The only thing I would consider using it for would be to transcode from another lossless format to be able to put lossless ALAC files on an iPod, and even there I wouldn't expect perfect compatibility. |
Originally Posted by salannelson /img/forum/go_quote.gif I'd stick to itunes when encoding in ALAC. After all...they created it didn't they? |
Originally Posted by DavidMahler /img/forum/go_quote.gif I don't have an issue converting the dbPoweramp ALAC files to the itunes ALAC Files......that's easy for me....I just want to make sure there's no loss of quality |
Originally Posted by DavidMahler /img/forum/go_quote.gif the reason i am using dbpower amp to do the first conversion in to alac is because i rip my music in EAC using flac and then the flac to ALAC, can't do that in iTunes. I would do WAV in EAC instead but i can't ID3 tag them. Any suggestions? |
Originally Posted by DavidMahler /img/forum/go_quote.gif the reason i am using dbpower amp to do the first conversion in to alac is becasue i rip my music in EAC using flac and then the flac to ALAC, can't do that in iTunes. I would do WAV in EAC instead but i can't ID3 tag them. Any suggestions? |
Originally Posted by DavidMahler /img/forum/go_quote.gif the reason i am using dbpower amp to do the first conversion in to alac is becasue i rip my music in EAC using flac and then the flac to ALAC, can't do that in iTunes. I would do WAV in EAC instead but i can't ID3 tag them. Any suggestions? |