If I am not mistaken, if you start out with WAV or AIFF in itunes, on a mac or PC, and transmit the file over a network to an airport express or apple tv, you are unknowingly transmitting apple loseless. I assume this is not the case when connecting your computer to a DAC via USB or Toslink as apple loseless is not supported by any DAC I know of. Itunes does this because transmitting a file half the size is faster and easier I assume. Maybe that is why I cannot hear the difference when I A/B AIFF and apple loseless in my system. Not to start an argument, but AIFF and WAV are both native CD Redbook formats, AIFF being Mac and Silicon Graphics native format, WAV being Microsoft. If WAV doesn't support tags (im not sure on this as I don't use it) you are making a LOT of extra work for yourself.
Ripping CDs to lossless in Itunes.. HiFi approved?
Hi,
The name says it all.
I want to rip my CDs once, and do it right. I started with eac, but it's complicated to get it to work right with Apple Lossless and get the tags right.
So... I switched over to Itunes directly, ripping CDs to Apple Lossless.
Without getting too "audiophile abstract," is there anything wrong with these files?
The name says it all.
I want to rip my CDs once, and do it right. I started with eac, but it's complicated to get it to work right with Apple Lossless and get the tags right.
So... I switched over to Itunes directly, ripping CDs to Apple Lossless.
Without getting too "audiophile abstract," is there anything wrong with these files?