At 11:14 AM -0700 9/8/06, Omri wrote:
My music server is an Apple Macintosh, and all of my music is in iTunes.
Up till now, I have been importing my music in AAC. Now I would like to
try for higher fidelity. It appears that iTunes offers two higher
fidelity alternatives: AIFF and Apple Lossless. I believe that Apple
Lossless requires less storage. Is there a discernible quality
difference between the two?
Here's a theoretical argument:
1) AIFF is the bits off the disk, with a header on the front.
No compression,
no loss of fidelity from the original source.
2) "Apple Lossless" suggests that the music is compressed
with an algorithm
that, when decompressed, returns exactly the original data (without
any "loss").
I would expect:
a) Apple Lossless files will be significantly smaller than
the corresponding AIFF files.
b) The information that is presented to the D/A converters to
be exactly the same.
This is a "theoretical" argument because, while I have looked at AIFF
files in the past, I haven't looked at Apple Lossless to see what
they are doing with it.
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