Of late ive reverted back to playing out using CD’s, I know its a little Archaic but its where im at atm. I was initially burning my files from itunes, but started to realise that the quality of the tracks wernt what I expected.
A friend advised me to burn using roxio toast and burn straight from where i had stored original files rather itunes library as the files had been compressed when imported.
Is this so, I could defiantly hear a difference… This would be a huge bummer because I have spent a lot of time sorting tunes into numerous playlists within itunes.
I keep all the originals, its just that everything is categorised and assorted into playlists in itunes. I dont think all my that work can be transferred easily.
I fear your mate is mostly chatting shit - the only way iTunes will have messed about with the files is if you’ve asked it to convert the tunes to aac.
Not sure whether iTunes does anything on playback, but I’d doubt it (unless you’ve got one of the ‘improve the sound’ options checked on it)
IMPORT USING : MP3 ENCODER
STEREO BIT RATE: 320 Kbps
SAMPLE RATE: AUTO
CHANNELS: AUTO
STEREO MODE: JOINT STEREO
SMART ECODING ADJUSTMENTS: ON
FILTER FREQUENCIES BELOW 10 HZ: ON
Just a quick question about that.. Why would you advise to turn the option off when human can only hear to 20hz and most speaker dont reproduce any thing below around 20 - 40 hz??
iTunes does not compress files unless you tell it to. There’s an option on iPods and iPhones to “convert higher bitrate files to AAC” to save space, but that’s it. You can have the encoder set however the hell you feel…it doesn’t compress things unless you tell it to by right-clicking on the file (in iTunes) and selecting “make mp3 version” or whatever it’s set to (ALAC, AAC, etc.). It doesn’t matter if it’s set to 64kBit mp3 and you’re importing wav files…it doesn’t touch them unless you tell it to.
There is no reason for a quality difference in burning from iTunes or Roxio or SimplyBurns or anything else except that maybe if sound check is on, then it does some leveling or compression or something (can’t figure out what that setting actually does…so I just leave it off).
The differences in quality are in your head…like most differences in quality in modern audio. I remember reading not too long ago about some guy who started an amp challenge in the 80s and put up $10,000 of his own money to give to anyone who could tell the difference between 2 amps outputting the same power into the same speakers in a controlled listening environment. 20+ years…no one’s been paid. This is the same kind of sh*t…people make up subjective reasons why one way is better than another.
Something to consider. The settings in itunes are only for ripping cd’s. If you drag and drop a file into the browser window it just copies the file in its original format. So if you drag and drop a .wav it copies into itunes as a wav. Just FYI
