CD ripping

I agree with andrei nz.  Personally, when I compared WAV vs ALAC ripped files, I could hear no difference.  Not sure about the correctness of cleeds comments w/respect to M4a from ALAC.   ALAC compresses but is claimed to be lossless, as in "Apple LOSSLESS Audio Codec".   Regardless of any theoretical advantage for one format vs the other, let your ears be the judge.  Re-ripping would be a lot of work not to mention losing meta data with WAV.   

Hi @cleeds - I associated the M4a extension with ALAC only. Didn’t realize, as Al points out, that M4A can also be for AAC.  Hence ASSumed you were talking about ALAC.  Still, a general statement that M4a is lossy/ compressed is not 100% accurate given the possible association with ALAC.   No offense intended.

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The Lost Chord...

Thanks for the reminder.