Alac via ipod?

beachBOYken

beachBOYken

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Hi

I have ripped a few cds with dbpoweramp to alac and transferred them to my iTunes library.

Will I see any benefit putting alac files onto my ipod touch, I only listen to music via the apple earphones or docked/streamed to my zeppelin air?

Being big files space is not a problem yet on my ipod but if there is no benefit in sound quality would I better continuing ripping to alac and converting via iTunes to high quality mp3.

Thanks:)
 
In your case, absolutely, 100%, not worth it. If you have an external DAC and are using a decent pair of headphones, sure, but for a dock and Earpods or the old buds? No.

I'd personally never put ALAC on my device after actually hearing it against even my MBA. The sound stage is small, and the mids and bass sound...restrained and closed. Not a device for "proper" listening, though of course more than adequate for your everyday travels.

iTunes does have an option to automatically convert songs to 256Kbps M4A before transferring to your device. Great if you don't want to have two separate libraries (e.g. if you use the iTunes directory for a DLNA music server for your hi-fi).
 
So I would get no benefit from my zeppelin air, I did think this accepted lossless alac files via streaming or docking?

Anyway are you saying I can't convert the alac files to something else.

Sorry I'm not very knowledgeable with all these music formats.

What would you suggest I do if I want to rip my cds via dbpoweramp and transfer to iTunes/ipod touch?

Thanks
 
Just need a bit more help, basically how do I go about ripping my cds and then putting them on my ipod touch.

I would like to use dbpoweramp seen as I have this already.

Should I rip to alac in dbpoweramp and then convert the music to aac in iTunes?

Unless it makes no difference and I can just rip cds straight to aac. Would ripping to alac first and then converting to aac improve anything?

Cheers
 
Even though the Zeppelin Air will support ALAC, honestly you aren't going to hear a difference great enough to warranty using up five times more storage.

As for conversion, all you'd be doing is converting from one lossless format (the disc) to another (ALAC), then to AAC. You're just adding a redundant step into the equation.

Overall, it depends on what your iTunes library is for. "Archiving" your music or listening on "decent" equipment? Lossless. Otherwise, just AAC will do.
 
Hi

I'm finally understanding, I will just rip to aac 256kbs in the future then as I only listen on my ipod or docked on the zeppelin.

I will have to check if I can rip cds to aac 256kbs using dbpoweramp otherwise I will have to use iTunes.

Also I currently have my iTunes library on my windows laptop, in the future I may get something newer, perhaps an Mac air, I have always been a little unsure about storage size on these if i have tons of music stored on them, am I missing something or is storage limited or are there other means of adding storage to a mac air?

Finally does iTunes backup ripped cds to Icloud or just iTunes store purchases?

Many thanks:)
 
beachBOYken said:
Also I currently have my iTunes library on my windows laptop, in the future I may get something newer, perhaps an Mac air, I have always been a little unsure about storage size on these if i have tons of music stored on them, am I missing something or is storage limited or are there other means of adding storage to a mac air?

Finally does iTunes backup ripped cds to Icloud or just iTunes store purchases?

Many thanks:)
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For the first question: aside from the obvious options (external hard drives or a home server), your only choice officially is to buy as big an SSD as you can, then top that up with an SD card.

Unofficially, if you can find a bigger PCI-e SSD then you can theoretically replace the SSD. However, I've not seen them for sale separately.

For your second question, iTunes Match will match songs but won't backup your actual rips. Think it will upload music that isn't available on the Music Store, but whether you can re-download I don't know. That, and it costs money. Better choice would be Google Play Music (which is free). You can re-download your songs from that I think, it does do matching however.
 
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