Is Apple Lossless the best format to import your music onto your library. How many Kbs would equal Apple Lossless. I can re import my CD's if lossless is going to improve the sound quality. Most of my music was imported around 300 Kbs and I don't want to waste my time if the sound quality is not much different.
I listen via airplay on an expensive speaker
Any advice is warmly welcome re these formats.
Thanks
Windows 7
fred quimby wrote:
Is Apple Lossless the best format to import your music onto your library. How many Kbs would equal Apple Lossless. I can re import my CD's if lossless is going to improve the sound quality. Most of my music was imported around 300 Kbs and I don't want to waste my time if the sound quality is not much different.
I listen via airplay on an expensive speaker
Any advice is warmly welcome re these formats.
Thanks
Fred,
Apple Lossless does not use a fixed bitrate. It uses an adaptive algorithm that uses more or fewer bits depending on the sonic complexity of each portion of the music. On average, a file encoded with Apple Lossless will be around 700 to 1000 kbps.
Because it is lossless, it provides equivalent audio to the CD the file was ripped from. Whether it is sufficiently better is a very subjective decision. If you still have the original CDs, rip some tracks in Apple Lossless, and see if they sound better to you than your MP3 or AAC files. Try tracks of a few different musical styles, and use your usual audio equipment and your usual listening conditions.
If it sounds better to you, then you can proceed to re-rip your collection. Given that you have a good quality speaker system, you may well enjoy the better audio.
Thanks very much your reply was very helpful. I bought from Amazon on my smartphone Josh Grobans song SMILE and the same song from Apple. The Apple version I had my settings set at Apple Lossless.
I could not really hear much of a difference.....the apple version did sound slightly better.
once again thanks.....Merry Xmas.
The version you bought from the iTunes Store will be 256k AAC. You would need to rip an original CD in various formats/bit rate settings to perform a comparison.
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I reinstalled a CD using Apple lossless and compared it sound wise to the same album I had installed on ITunes . It was like day and night. I will now have to reinstall over 100 albums which I had previously ripped at 250 Kbs.
It will be fun.......not. I am using a Sony X7 blue tooth speaker which allows me to use Airplay. If I by music from Apple what sort of quality Kbs wise am I getting as opposed to ripping my own CD's. Using the Apple Lossless format.
I am not an expert...lol.
If I by music from Apple what sort of quality Kbs wise am I getting as opposed to ripping my own CD's. Using the Apple Lossless format.
Fred,
All songs sold in the iTunes Store are at 256 kbps. They are lower quality than Apple Lossless.
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