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Thread ID: 110933 2010-07-07 08:41:00 Fair Go iTunes story nofam (9009) PC World Chat
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1116917 2010-07-09 01:20:00 AAC is supposed to achieve better audio quality for the same bit rate, but it's also standardised by ISO and Sony use it on the PlaySation.

Then there is Apple Lossless, which exactly what you're talking about.
en.wikipedia.org

Yes "AAC generally achieves better sound quality than MP3 at similar bit rates"

That does not mean that it is CD quality. All it means is that they have a compression algorithm that is more efficient. The file is still compressed in a lossy way, which is not what I want.


Apple lossless might be better quality, but iTunes store doesn't actually sell anything in that format does it?

And then of course there comes the problem that it is an Apple-proprietary format which will only work on iPods etc and is not open source.
Agent_24 (57)
1116918 2010-07-11 07:20:00 who uses itunes. its a resource hogging stupid thing. i only use it on my mac (and even that dosent get used, i must put its 160gb hard drive in my pc and shove a smaller one in it)

I thought you hated macs
man i hate apple lovers
icow (15313)
1116919 2010-07-11 08:03:00 Uhm. Is there a hideous troll roaming in this thread? Renmoo (66)
1116920 2010-07-11 08:07:00 i do hate macs to a degree. but i couldn't turn down a free one from my uncle goodiesguy (15316)
1116921 2010-07-11 08:28:00 i do hate macs to a degree. but i couldn't turn down a free one from my uncle

I could :p
pcuser42 (130)
1116922 2010-07-11 08:29:00 it was free. and it had a 160gb hard drive in it. it beats my old 40gb and 80gb hard drives which are no longer in use goodiesguy (15316)
1116923 2010-07-11 10:42:00 A mate at school is stoked with his uber priced Macbook pro. way to go. for the same price you could have gotten a 3x better (hardware standard) x86 based machine. In my view unless you really need an apple OS for what you are doing they charge too much for what you get. Apples ipod phone etc are different. I kinda like them :rolleyes: The Error Guy (14052)
1116924 2010-07-11 11:02:00 i think apples are overpriced too. i agree the error guy goodiesguy (15316)
1116925 2010-07-11 12:04:00 I have an Apple too, in fact. A PowerPC 6100\66 :lol: Agent_24 (57)
1116926 2010-07-11 22:30:00 i think apples are overpriced too. i agree the error guy

Holy crap yes. you can buy a pc with a million times better specs for half the price. The only good thing about the price is that they ALWAYS stick good stuff in them ie Core 2 Duos were as some pc's are still running around with celerons and pentiums yuk! Still they are over priced. So are Intel CPU's compared to AMD ones.
icow (15313)
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