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AAC, AIFF, Lossless, MP3

Hey everyone... In anticipation of receiving an iPod for Christmas I burned all of my favorite songs from my CD collection using iTunes into Apple Lossless. I have about 10 gig worth of songs that need to fit into an 8 gig Nano and would like extra space for future songs, photos, etc.

What is the best option where I won't hear too much of a difference from Lossless format but takes up less space?

Thanks!
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herman
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That is up to you. Convert a few of the lossless files to MP3 at various rates and listen. Choose the one that sounds OK to you.
herman
2,216 posts
 
Cwlondon, there is no such thing as a tagged wav file. There are various programs that can manage wav files and maintain a database of the same information that a tag usually contains, but the problem is if anything gets corrupted you can lose the tag info for all of your wav files at once, and this information won't get passed along if you choose another file manager.

Since the compresed formats all maintain the tag information as part of the music file, if one file gets corrupted it doesn't affect any of the others. I went with iTunes and Apple lossles because:

1. it does maintain the tags
2. IMHO the iTunes interface is the best
3. I can't hear a difference between it and wav
4. I can always convert them back to a bit perfect wav
5. I can't imagine trying to maintain and configure something as convoluted as EAC and foobar
6. It does save some space but if I thought I could get better sound I would use something else
7. I've got a lot of files and very seldom get a pop or a click using iTunes with error correction
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