I'm currently in the process of ripping my entire music collection to FLAC and someone has very kindly bought me some ITunes vouchers.
Is there a decent format I can download music in with Itunes? I'm guessing FLAC is out of the question
Any suggestions?
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2012-08-28, 09:11 #1Member
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ITunes Vouchers. Best Format for downloading Music.
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2012-08-28, 10:23 #2Senior Member
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FLAC is definitely out of the question. As far as I know the only format the iTunes store offers is lossy AAC. I think it's 256mbps. There were rumors about 18 months ago about iTunes starting to sell lossless tracks, including 24-bit tracks, but that doesn't seem to have amounted to anything yet.
So unless you want to "re-gift" the vouchers, I suggest you choose some tracks/albums where you won't miss the difference very much, eg, Ramones instead of Rostropovich.
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2012-08-29, 09:27 #3Member
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Thanks Aubuti.....thats what I figured AAC it is then!
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2012-08-29, 09:31 #4Senior Member
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the AAC 256 files are quite good. I prefer the CD (FLAC rips) or FLAC downloads, but when only available at iTUNES, I have zero issues with listening to the 256 AAC files.
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