geraint smith;138665 Wrote: > > .. > I disagree about AIFF, though. In fact, I'd put it the other way round. > I don't see the point in NOT using aiff (or .wav). They are, unarguably, > the gold standard sonically, which one cannot say of any of the > compressed formats, > .. >
Sorry, but that is just plain wrong. You are clearly ignorant of the difference lossy and lossless compressed formats. With lossless formats, such as FLAC, all information is retained, and when uncompressed, an exact duplicate of the original bytestream is achieved. Thus, there is no sonic difference between a .wav and a .flac of the same song. They are both "the gold standard". And, as Nostromo correctly ponted out, .aiff and .wav have inferior or nonexistent tagging capabilities, unlike FLAC and many others. Perhaps iTunes hides that from you (I wouldn't know as I don't use iTunes) -- blackbear ------------------------------------------------------------------------ blackbear's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7015 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27729 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
