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Am I losing precious PJ audio quality ripping their cd's to my computer?

F5F5 Posts: 791
edited August 2008 in The Porch
I'm just curious after buying a new CD today if anyone else has ever thought this. Of course I've ripped all my PJ cd's to my computer to put on my I Pod but does that diminish the quality of the audio? What's the closest file format to CD quality audio?
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  • jubilairesjljubilairesjl Posts: 498
    A wave file with a pretty high bitrate works well but you can put that on an Ipod. If you have a high bitrate then that will sound the best. But with a high bitrate it takes up alot of space.
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  • melva02melva02 Posts: 298
    If you're using the headphones that come with ipods, you probably won't notice the difference. If you are planning to get rid of your cds (not likely with PJ if you're posting here, but for other ones...), you can save a lossless compressed file of each song, for example a flac, shn, or ape file. I would recommend importing your music as mp3s for maximum portability (vs. Apple's proprietary format). I use 192 kbps myself, but some people choose to go up to 320. Hard drives are so cheap now it's not really prohibitive, but of course ipods are limited in size. I find mine gets too cluttered to be useful if it has more than 30-40 GB on it anyway (30-40 GB of 128-192 kbps mp3s).

    Also read this thread:

    http://forums.pearljam.com/showthread.php?t=295356

    and the site somebody linked to from there.

    Melissa
  • F5F5 Posts: 791
    melva02 wrote:
    If you're using the headphones that come with ipods, you probably won't notice the difference. If you are planning to get rid of your cds (not likely with PJ if you're posting here, but for other ones...), you can save a lossless compressed file of each song, for example a flac, shn, or ape file. I would recommend importing your music as mp3s for maximum portability (vs. Apple's proprietary format). I use 192 kbps myself, but some people choose to go up to 320. Hard drives are so cheap now it's not really prohibitive, but of course ipods are limited in size. I find mine gets too cluttered to be useful if it has more than 30-40 GB on it anyway (30-40 GB of 128-192 kbps mp3s).

    Also read this thread:

    http://forums.pearljam.com/showthread.php?t=295356

    and the site somebody linked to from there.

    Melissa

    So a WAV file is uncompressed so therefore equal in sound quality to a CD? But less portable than an Mp3 file?
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    Salt Lake City 9/28/09
    LA 9/30/09, 10/07/09
    San Diego 10/9/09
    Alpine Valley 9/03/11, 9/04/11
    Ashbury Park 9/18/21
    LA 5/06/21, 5/07/21
    Phoenix 05/09/22
    NYC 9/11/22
    Denver 9/22/22
  • Evacuation RulesEvacuation Rules Posts: 2,162
    mitchmoore2 wrote:
    So a WAV file is uncompressed so therefore equal in sound quality to a CD? But less portable than an Mp3 file?

    FLAC's are compressed WAV's and they are both identical to CD.

    MP3's have compromised sound quality and frequency range so that they can be compressed into a small size.
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