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| From | "Josh Chasin" <jchasin@nyc.rr.com> |
| Subject | Re: ITunes question |
| Date | Fri, 13 Apr 2007 11:53:22 -0400 |
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I believe Apple's position-- which I have no reason to doubt based on
experience-- is that 128K AAC are comparable in quality to 192K MP3s.
I think where you'll run into a limitation with the songs is (a) they won't
play on other non-iPod portable devices; and (b) Apple only lets you
authorize 5 machines (computers, not portables; the latter are unlimited)
for use for each song. Although I never heard anyone complain that 5 wasn't
enough.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Eichelberger" <markeichelberger@comcast.net>
To: "Audities" <audities@smoe.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2007 10:47 PM
Subject: ITunes question
Folks,
I recently have become somewhat enamored with ITunes and have downloaded
quite a few albums and individual songs. After looking at the information
on downloaded tracks, I have a couple of questions that I thought more savvy
ITunes users could answer.
I noticed that downloaded files are listed as Protected AAC Audio files.
What limitations are imposed on the use of these files? (I have burned
these downloaded files multiple times on CD-R.)
I noticed that the bit rate for downloaded files is 128 khps. However,
these files (to my ears) sound a lot better than 128 khps mp3's I used to
rip from CDs. Is the AAC audio format the reason these 128 khps files sound
better than the same bit rate on an mp3 file?
You can email me offline if you prefer.
Thanks!
Mark E.
markeichelberger@comcast.net
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