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  Apple Lossless vs iTunes Plus
Any audible difference between the two? I only buy/import from CD's in Apple Lossless but I would like to stop buying CD's.
Sakahara  (System | Threads | Answers | This Thread)

02-21-09
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02-22-09   Yes. the new itunes format is 256kbs aac which is a lossy co ...   Ckorody

02-22-09   when comparing these file types, do use something other tha ...   Blindjim

02-22-09   I'm also interested in high def downloads but doesn't it mak ...   Jamesw20

02-22-09   Jamesw20 - you're right to be paranoid about your hard drive ...   Sfar

02-22-09   ummm, maybe you think of cd's as spinning magnetic disks, b ...   Jax2

02-22-09   My hard drive became too cluttered with my itunes library so ...   Unclejeff

02-22-09   amen. another moral you are missing: store your itunes lib ...   Jax2

02-22-09   Jax2 - i said "cd's and spinning magnetic disks," ...   Sfar

02-22-09   Sfar - sorry, my bad having misread your post. yes, either ...   Jax2

02-22-09   Jax, i download chunks of the itunes to my iphone and play ...   Unclejeff

02-23-09   The best backup is to share your files with your friends!   Argyro

02-23-09   Sfar you said: “with drives costing $100 per terabyte righ ...   Blindjim

02-23-09   For those of you who don't live in a major metro or prefer t ...   Ckorody

02-23-09   Ckorody - it is only in the ads that agon does not allow hyp ...   Jax2

02-23-09   Correction; a 1tb rocraid is currently just under $300 at a ...   Jax2

02-23-09   Blindjim - i got this lacie drive for $99 when they had a ...   Sfar

02-23-09   sakahara, it is very easy to use your cds to test the itune ...   Edo_musica

02-23-09   I didn't know what itunes + was at first (thought it was ano ...   Sakahara

02-23-09   I wonder if these itunes + lossy files are made from origina ...   Sakahara

02-23-09   Sakahara, a great number of users have music stored on exter ...   Edo_musica

02-24-09   ckorody…… big thanks. i’ve been out of the hardware loop f ...   Blindjim

02-24-09   there's plenty of threads on this subject if you do a searc ...   Jax2

02-25-09   I'm a mac. 10+ years of windows was torture enough. ;-) i' ...   Sakahara

02-28-09   I realized one important detail about storing itunes on an e ...   Sakahara

03-08-09   Found a perfect solution; two lacie 2big triple 1tb (2-disk ...   Sakahara

03-12-09   Addendum: the lacie 2big triple was a great raid unit, but ...   Sakahara

04-09-09   Blindjim, i'd like to point out for the sake of clarity th ...   Naschbac

04-09-09   Omg naschbac... you've been captured too! this is some scar ...   Ridgestreetaudio

04-10-09   yet they most certainly can sound different. it must be th ...   Jax2

04-10-09   Good thought about the new math jax2 but.... to me seems th ...   Ridgestreetaudio

04-10-09   The paint-by-numbers is a great illustration, robert (pun no ...   Jax2

04-11-09   Let me ask you a question, since you're convinced that they ...   Naschbac

04-11-09   we are not talking about a word file. it does not have to ...   Jax2

04-11-09   Timing information? you pull down the audio from a cd into ...   Naschbac

04-11-09   Naschbac, what you say makes a lot of sense. as long as the ...   Shadorne

04-11-09   i believe that in reality i can do so. mathematics or comp ...   Jax2

04-11-09   it is probably related to software bugs. if the algorithms ...   Shadorne

04-11-09   It very well could be, shadorne. i don't know...i can only ...   Jax2

04-11-09   and i don't doubt you. here is a manufacturer's explanatio ...   Shadorne

04-11-09   Shadorne - here's a further, long thread on head-fi that ...   Jax2

04-11-09   Hey naschbac. my personal results and conclusions came from ...   Ridgestreetaudio

04-11-09: Jax2
Hey Robert - I've done similar comparisons, but with WAV files comparing to ALAC. I've had really mixed results there. Sometimes there's been a clear difference with WAV sounding consistently better, and others (on other rips of different CD's) I cannot tell any difference. This was in versions past of iTunes which seem to get changed as frequently as jockey shorts. If you thought differences while sticking with iTunes options were important, if you haven't tried it I'd suggest trying EAC rips (or dbPoweramp) and comparing those to iTunes. Again, I've heard that the very latest version of iTunes does address some problems they've been having with ripping.
Jax2  (Reviews | Threads | Answers | This Thread)


04-11-09   Hey marco. would really like to explore something different ...   Ridgestreetaudio

04-12-09   Hi robert - i think there are some flac conversion software ...   Jax2

04-12-09   Just wanted to jump in and thank the posters here for one of ...   Sbank

04-12-09   Hey spencer - thanks for the vote of confidence. i'm sure t ...   Jax2

04-13-09   Some utilities which may be of interest to mac users: xld a ...   Humanmedia

04-13-09   Marco, yeah, i got to hear a friends' modwright transporter ...   Sbank

04-13-09   spender - yes, it really is a damn fine digital front end ( ...   Jax2

04-26-11   Sorry to dig up this old thread, but i was looking for infor ...   Grandpixel

04-29-11   I have done blind testing with aac lossy at 256k and apple l ...   Grege

04-29-11   Grege, i have done the same. 256 kbps with a good compressi ...   Shadorne

04-29-11   Grege, shadorne - my experience has been the same. while i'm ...   Sfar

05-01-11   Reading all this gives me a headache. i've been thinking abo ...   Wildoats

05-01-11   Computer audio is a headache and one you need not suffer. yo ...   Nglazer

05-02-11   Wildouts - you need not get a headache with computer audio. ...   Grege

05-02-11   Update: i'm using xld - aiff. i recently decided to start u ...   Sakahara


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