ITunes quality question

[Hayabusa Rider]

Finally went looking around, and found some things I like. I would not be using an Ipod device, but burning a CD for my home theater, and sometimes putting them on my PDA.

How is the sound quality?

 

[Goosemaster]

it is decent, as long as the material isn't too demanding. Classical might stick out like a sore thumb if it is demanding (see:carmen) but for simple beats such as techno, r&B, hiphop, and pop, it should be fine....

Then again I got Blur's "song 2" it the 128kbps is noticable....

EDIT:

In general, what suffers the most is "soundstage"

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Originally posted by: Goosemaster
it is decent, as long as the material isn't too demanding. Classical might stick out like a sore thumb if it is demanding (see:carmen) but for simple beats such as techno, r&B, hiphop, and pop, it should be fine....

Then again I got Blur's "song 2" it the 128kbps is noticable....

EDIT:

In general, what suffers the most is "soundstage"

Is there a higher quality alternative to ITunes then?

 

[darkswordsman17]

I think the highest I've seen (for legal services) is 192, which is good, but VBR would be better. Too bad you can't download songs in the Apple lossless format (essentially the AAC).

 

[loup garou]

Originally posted by: WinstonSmith

Originally posted by: Goosemaster
it is decent, as long as the material isn't too demanding. Classical might stick out like a sore thumb if it is demanding (see:carmen) but for simple beats such as techno, r&B, hiphop, and pop, it should be fine....

Then again I got Blur's "song 2" it the 128kbps is noticable....

EDIT:

In general, what suffers the most is "soundstage"

Is there a higher quality alternative to ITunes then?

AllOfMP3, but it's a gray area, legal-wise.

 

[GoodRevrnd]

Week later bumpage....

So iTunes music is ONLY available in 128? What a rip off... looking for at least 192 or AAC. Is that AllOfMP3 thing safe, payment-wise?

 

[elbosco]

Originally posted by: GoodRevrnd
Week later bumpage....

So iTunes music is ONLY available in 128? What a rip off... looking for at least 192 or AAC. Is that AllOfMP3 thing safe, payment-wise?

Music off iTunes is AAC...

 

[0roo0roo]

So iTunes music is ONLY available in 128? What a rip off... looking for at least 192 or AAC. Is that AllOfMP3 thing safe, payment-wise?

....its not mp3. itunes uses the aac? or was that acc compression.. its a newer audio compression tech by the mpeg group. its more advanced so it is probably about comparable to 192kbs mp3 at 128kbs.

 

[0roo0roo]

audio compression... read it
http://arstechnica.com/guides/tweaks/encoding.ars

 

[zakee00]

the quality is generally pretty damn good, there are only a few songs that i've downloaded that I wish were better. Apple Lossless would be pretty dumb simply because 1 song is about 25MB. High quality VBR MP3/AAC's are what I would like to see. I used to hate MP3s, but then i discovered EAC and LAME. WOW!!
Nick

 

[Gurck]

Originally posted by: zakee00
the quality is generally pretty damn good, there are only a few songs that i've downloaded that I wish were better. Apple Lossless would be pretty dumb simply because 1 song is about 25MB. High quality VBR MP3/AAC's are what I would like to see. I used to hate MP3s, but then i discovered EAC and LAME. WOW!!
Nick

ogg > mp3/aac... I'd also suggest lossless (though a more widely supported standard like flac - nobody uses apple lossless) - if you're paying full price, why not get the full data? If you want to compress it for a portable device or to your own varying preferences depending on genre / your interest, there's also nothing stopping you.

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: Gurck

Originally posted by: zakee00
the quality is generally pretty damn good, there are only a few songs that i've downloaded that I wish were better. Apple Lossless would be pretty dumb simply because 1 song is about 25MB. High quality VBR MP3/AAC's are what I would like to see. I used to hate MP3s, but then i discovered EAC and LAME. WOW!!
Nick

though a more widely supported standard like flac - nobody uses apple lossless)

You always have to put stuff like that in

 

[Koing]

Originally posted by: Goosemaster

Originally posted by: Gurck

Originally posted by: zakee00
the quality is generally pretty damn good, there are only a few songs that i've downloaded that I wish were better. Apple Lossless would be pretty dumb simply because 1 song is about 25MB. High quality VBR MP3/AAC's are what I would like to see. I used to hate MP3s, but then i discovered EAC and LAME. WOW!!
Nick

though a more widely supported standard like flac - nobody uses apple lossless)

You always have to put stuff like that in

LOL so true

Koing

 

[otispunkmeyer]

Originally posted by: WinstonSmith

Originally posted by: Goosemaster
it is decent, as long as the material isn't too demanding. Classical might stick out like a sore thumb if it is demanding (see:carmen) but for simple beats such as techno, r&B, hiphop, and pop, it should be fine....

Then again I got Blur's "song 2" it the 128kbps is noticable....

EDIT:

In general, what suffers the most is "soundstage"

Is there a higher quality alternative to ITunes then?

yeah encode it yourself im afraid.

 

[flxnimprtmscl]

Originally posted by: werk

Originally posted by: WinstonSmith

Originally posted by: Goosemaster
it is decent, as long as the material isn't too demanding. Classical might stick out like a sore thumb if it is demanding (see:carmen) but for simple beats such as techno, r&B, hiphop, and pop, it should be fine....

Then again I got Blur's "song 2" it the 128kbps is noticable....

EDIT:

In general, what suffers the most is "soundstage"

Is there a higher quality alternative to ITunes then?

AllOfMP3, but it's a gray area, legal-wise.

I <3 allofmp3.com. It gets my vote.

 

[fs5]

iTunes

 

[Gurck]

Originally posted by: Goosemaster

Originally posted by: Gurck

Originally posted by: zakee00
the quality is generally pretty damn good, there are only a few songs that i've downloaded that I wish were better. Apple Lossless would be pretty dumb simply because 1 song is about 25MB. High quality VBR MP3/AAC's are what I would like to see. I used to hate MP3s, but then i discovered EAC and LAME. WOW!!
Nick

though a more widely supported standard like flac - nobody uses apple lossless)

You always have to put stuff like that in

Sorry, it's just true... How many portable or pc software players natively support the two formats? In the case of apple lossless, only one of each...