Darcy James Argue / 05.3.31 / 03:10 PM wrote: >Yes. MP3 has lossy audio compression, AIFF has none. > >However, with the latest version of iTunes, you can also use Apple >Lossless instead of AIFF. Sonically, they are identical, but Apple >Lossless files are twice as small as AIFF. You can also freely go back >and forth between AIFF and Apple Lossless, again without any >degradation, because it uses only data compression, not audio >compression.
By the way, if you have iPod other than the latest model, the one has the gray wheel, I suggest AAC instead of MP3. Apple did something really wrong on MP3 encoding in iPod. You hear terrible artifacts, but they did right with AAC. Even I use Ethymotic with my iPod, I couldn't hear much differences between AAC and AIFF. After all, I don't use iPod in a quiet environment. And of course I couldn't had stored my entire Miles Davis collection if I used AIFF :-) Steve Gibons / 05.3.31 / 03:16 PM wrote: >But the tags work in aif files also, AFAIK. If you mean extension, 'aif' is the correct extension instead of aiff since extension by its spec needs to be 3 letters, while Mac OS is forgiving since it also ID from resource folk. -- - Hiro Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Boston, MA <http://a-no-ne.com> <http://anonemusic.com> _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
