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Article #2356Re: CD vs AAC
From: Arny Krueger
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 14:27
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 14:27
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<funksoulbrotherNOSPAM@skynet.be> wrote in message news:0001HW.BC231AE00006C8B0F02845B0@news.skynet.be > Hi there! > > I'm thinking of importing my cd-collection into iTunes. It looks > like AAC is the better converter, but what bitrate should I use? Is > 128 enough? 192? I don't want to loose any quality, but I don't > think it's necessary to go all the way and use 320kbps. Listen for yourself, using your own musical samples and playback equipment. Just round-trip your files from .wav or .aif to various flavors of AAC and back to .wav or aif using iTunes itself. Then do careful comparisons with blind listening test software for windows or the mac that you can download via www.pcabx.com. You can get some ready-made starter files from http://www.pcabx.com/product/coder_decoder/index.htm . You can find detailed discussion of these issues on this HTML-based forum: http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/
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