apple lossless for pc- please help me!
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apple lossless for pc- please help me!
i want to offer apple lossless (alac, m4a) sample downloads on my studio's website. is there software available for pc that supports this format.
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thank you for responding
i just had a friend test the alac (m4a) files on his pc and he said they were fine. so i guess we're cool. i'm aurally offended by mp3s
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oh yeah
mpeg4s ain't the same as apple lossless (m4a). my older pc converted the m4as to mpeg4 and it sounded horrible... weird volume fluctuations and other artifacts. thanks again though.
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I am extremely happy with the Apple Lossless format. With hard drive space being so cheap these days, there is no reason to not have everything that you import archived in this format.
Have an iPod with a small drive? Want to get AAC version of your Apple Lossless files over to the iPod, but don't want to keep the AAC files in your iTunes library?
http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/s ... cripts.php
Sorry for the off-topic Lossless rant.
Jeff
Have an iPod with a small drive? Want to get AAC version of your Apple Lossless files over to the iPod, but don't want to keep the AAC files in your iTunes library?
http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/s ... cripts.php
Sorry for the off-topic Lossless rant.
Jeff
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http://www.poikosoft.com/ supports converting to and from apple lossless.
I'm personally a FLAC fan for internet distribution, there's converters (and straight players) available for every modern platform.
I'm personally a FLAC fan for internet distribution, there's converters (and straight players) available for every modern platform.
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You probably all know this already, but for all these formats the end user has to have the proper codec installed. You might want to go with one that comes standard in XP/Vista/popular players, etc. So you don't get emails saying "I don't hear anything," or "I get an ugly error message." Or, worse, people not hearing anything and just walking away while never telling you about it.
Why apple lossless when FLAC is available? It doesn't make sense. FLAC Is open and easy to play everywhere. Lots of cowon & rio players support it too.
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Honestly, I agree. Use FLAC. It's universal, and the end user can decide to convert to WAV, add to iTunes, and then convert to whatever.
Jeff
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