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[bud]

hey guys any hints at what the best import settings for CDs in iTunes are? whats best for car audio in particular?

[Gilles 27]

Maximum bit-rate and er ditch iTunes

[cap-dude]

Just avoid having songs saved as AAC. AAC files are next to useless.

Aside from that, I've never been one to care for quality. Unless it's extremely bad, I must be the only one not to notice sound quality.

[bud]

I always go for quality because I use my iPhone with my car stereo. I hate the sound of a low bit rate song! I always go for highest file size, I've even tried apple lossless but that still doesn't sound as good as the stuff you buy off of the iTunes store! The quality is so much better so it makes me wonder what I am doing wrong!

[Gilles 27]

I don't like the quality of the stuff from iTunes store, I buy CDs and rip them, then add the files to iTunes. but if I'm going somewhere, I take a CD player and a fat pair of over-ear headphones

[bud]

I don't like the quality of the stuff from iTunes store, I buy CDs and rip them, then add the files to iTunes. but if I'm going somewhere, I take a CD player and a fat pair of over-ear headphones

what program do you use to rip?

[Gilles 27]

Windows media player or winamp, although the maximum they will rip at is 320kbps. iTunes also lets you rip at this rate I think, and in mp3 too which imo is the only way to go as basically every program will read them

[bud]

ahh yeah i am a Mac user so their a no can do for me.

yeah just looking at the settings in Itunes, apple lossless is at 320kps in AAC file.

[Gilles 27]

no mp3? try looking for an update...it all depends on what you use the files for, i put them in games so my music gets played instead of the game music so i need mp3s but if its just going on your ipod, it wont matter a whole lot

[bud]

oh yeah there is MP3 im not sure it has 320kps though, ill have a look!
yeah MP3 but highest quality is 190kps.

and yeah its only for my ipod which i connect to my car stereo.

[Gilles 27]

go with the 320 then, 190 doesn't sound a whole lot better than 128 to my ears

[Jensonb]

256kbps AAC is the iTunes Plus format, anything of that or better will result in fantastic sound.

And steer clear of MP3, it's highly portable, but not as portable (Or as good) as AAC, which is actually the intended successor to MP3.

[Denthúl]

256kbps AAC is the iTunes Plus format, anything of that or better will result in fantastic sound.

And steer clear of MP3, it's highly portable, but not as portable (Or as good) as AAC, which is actually the intended successor to MP3.

FAAC and FAAD2, if you must

I tend to use Vorbis as a good compromise between quality and file size, and because it's FOSS whereas MP3 isn't.

[Jensonb]

256kbps AAC is the iTunes Plus format, anything of that or better will result in fantastic sound.

And steer clear of MP3, it's highly portable, but not as portable (Or as good) as AAC, which is actually the intended successor to MP3.

FAAC and FAAD2, if you must

I tend to use Vorbis as a good compromise between quality and file size, and because it's FOSS whereas MP3 isn't.

FOSS is overrated. I prefer Standards. AAC is Standard.

That's why I use h.264 video, and not Dirac.

[Gilles 27]

256kbps does not result in great sound. To be honest, 320 is compressed too and it shows. CD quality (320) is a compromise between sound quality and size. The fact that 320 is considered the ultimate because of the excessive compression used in mp3 formats is a bit of a shame. It essentially means that as people listen to compressed music on their mp3 players and radio is compressed anyway, there will be no point in bands or artists recording in hi-fidelity.