dbpoweramp and itunes music help

beachBOYken

beachBOYken

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Hi Guys

I have a question about the different music formats , I have a zeppelin air and stream my music from itunes on my laptop.

I have a lot of itunes purchases which are in the standard itunes AAC format.

Would I gain anything if I converted them to Apple Lossless (alac) using dbpoweramp?

I have ripped some cds using dbpoweramp into apple lossless and put into itunes as I understand I may get better quality but Im not sure if I would get any benefit from converting itunes purchases to alac?

any help much appreciated:)
 
dasyad said:
You'll gain no benefit from converting a file compressed via a lossy algorithm to one that is lossless.
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thanks , I take it you mean the itunes purchases (aac to alac) wont make a difference apart from a bigger file?

What about ripping cds into alac on dbpoweramp and playing them from itunes?
 
Lossy transcoding actually makes things worse.
beachBOYken said:
What about ripping cds into alac on dbpoweramp and playing them from itunes?
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That'll work. You can also rip to ALAC directly from iTunes. Press Ctrl+B if you can't see the menu.

Choose Edit > Preferences, click General, and click Import Settings.
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j6m said:
Lossy transcoding actually makes things worse.


That'll work. You can also rip to ALAC directly from iTunes. Press Ctrl+B if you can't see the menu.
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yeah I saw you can rip from itunes into alac but I like to use dbpoweramp.

so basically the albums I purchased off itunes and converted to alac could be worse so I should keep them as AAC?

Thanks
 
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