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Gear / Technical Help => Post-Processing, Computer / Streaming / Internet Devices & Related Activity => Topic started by: twoodruff on January 09, 2006, 08:06:40 PM
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is anyone doing this? just trying to back up my aac files as mp3s so I can play in my universal
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www.dbpoweramp.com (http://www.dbpoweramp.com)
It really does ALL of your conversions thanks to all its assorted plugins.
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If it's AACs you've purchased from the iTunes Music Store you have to either burn them to a CD and rip them back as MP3s or capture them as a digital stream while playing (using a tool such as Audio Hijack Pro on the Mac). Before iTunes 6 you used to be able to remove the DRM and convert to MP3 using iTunes itself but no more (at least for now).
Craig
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does aac > mp3 sound as bad as i'd think? (lossy ---> more lossy)?
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does aac > mp3 sound as bad as i'd think? (lossy ---> more lossy)?
Lately, I've been playing around a lot with taking wave forms from comprssed tracks, subtracting off the original track, and seeing/hearing what's left. In my experience, it seems like you loose a little bit going from lossy > lossy, but not nearly as much as you did in the original compression. So if AAC is bad, AAC>MP3 will be worse, but not 2x as bad.
(Again IME) you lose very very little if you transcode at a higher bitrate, going from say 128 kbps AAC > LAME aps MP3. When the sample is simple to being with, the compressor doesn't have to throw as much stuff out.
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If your running an iPod why worry if it's universal? I only make 'em for myself and only play them in iTunes so I've never really cared. Plus, I think the VBR AAC files sound much better anyway. Just my thoughts