Re: M4A

2013-05-01 Thread David Chittenden
Hello Ray, When Apple started iPod and the iTunes music store, the music industry still had a strangle-hold on digital music distribution. iTunes was one of the first companies to get the music industry to cooperate in digital music downloading. At that time, the record industry was still

Re: M4A

2013-05-01 Thread Christopher Chaltain
I think MP3 is still a bit more ubiquitous than M4a, but you're right, the popularity of iTunes has made M4A almost as ubiquitous as MP3. I checked and Rockbox, Booksense and even the old MS Zune support M4A files. I guess you could check anywhere else you may want to play your music and make

Re: M4A

2013-05-01 Thread Chris H
Hello all I love love love the M4A format. As a hearing impaired person I find this to be the best quality for audio. I find Mp3 somewhat compressed in terms of quality, but that's understandable since Mp3 is a compressed format. Go M4A! Lol! Christopher Hallsworth E-mail and Facebook:

Re: M4A

2013-05-01 Thread Christopher Chaltain
M4A is also a compressed format. On 05/01/2013 02:36 AM, Chris H wrote: Hello all I love love love the M4A format. As a hearing impaired person I find this to be the best quality for audio. I find Mp3 somewhat compressed in terms of quality, but that's understandable since Mp3 is a compressed

RE: M4A

2013-05-01 Thread Ray T. Mahorney
players these days? Ray T. Mahorney WA4WGA -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of David Chittenden Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2013 06:59 To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: M4A Hello Ray, When Apple started iPod and the iTunes

Re: M4A

2013-04-30 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, I don't think they need to be converted. There is no difference in fidelity from M4a to mp3 in my opinion. And since iTunes is the number 1 music store in the world, almost all devices and media players support M4a files. hth Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info