Quick question about iTunes.

[Specop 007]

Whats the format and whats the bitrate (Or is it lossless)?
Thanks!

I just have a problem buying music thats compressed with a lossy compression......

 

[TallBill]

Itunes quality = sh1t

 

[Kelemvor]

I know some people that ahave whole house audio systems and other high end things like that and some of them use iTunes and say it sounds just fine. I don't know the specific numbers of the encoding or what format it uses though.

 

[YetioDoom]

I think it's 128 kbps AAC.

Roughly equal to 160 mp3.

 

[Budmantom]

it sucks

 

[Dubb]

Originally posted by: YetioDoom
I think it's 128 kbps AAC.

Roughly equal to 160 mp3.

I don't think it's even that good.

seriously, if apple sold flac files for the same price (or lossless AAC that I could convert to flac), they'd actually have me as a customer, but for now I'm sticking to used CD bins.

 

[JImmyK]

Its lossy, come on now....

 

[JImmyK]

Originally posted by: TallBill
Itunes quality = sh1t

I wouldnt go that far at all, it all depends on the orignal copy they are using.

 

[Trevelyan]

Well you can always buy it from Apple and then download it for a few bucks lossless at Allofmp3.com

 

[beer]

Guys - there is an apple lossless format that you can import songs in (http://www.apple.com/itunes/import.html). When you download from the iTunes Store, they're equiv to about 160 kbs MP3. And every truly legitimate site is going to give you music in a lossless format, WMA or AAC - you're not going to be able to find .flac, etc, files anywhere to download at a legitimate site (i.e, not allofmp3) because there isn't DRM implemented.