Thinking of buying and an album that does not have apple's "apple digital master". Is the quality of these albums have CD quality? (bit rate of 44.1khz and 16bit) and also do you guys know what file format do these albums have?
MacBook Pro
As of 2007 the audio files sold in the iTunes store have been encoded using the Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) codec and distributed with .m4a extensions from the iTunes store. The tracks are encoded as 256 kbps. It is an average bit rate encoding scheme, not a fixed bit rate encoding scheme. The actual sample rate is varied dynamically based on the content and time.
It is said that bitrate of the encoding used on iTunes files imparts no human-perceptible loss in the audio when compared to the source CD material.
Are the songs bought from the iTunes store CD quality?
