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Originally Posted by Amputate Your Head
I find the Alac files are a little bit smaller than Flac. But not like MP3s would be. We're still talking about lossless audio after all. 
On Macs, you can just copy & paste the raw AIFF files right from the CD. You'll probably want to run those through Toast too, just to keep everything nice & tidy and in Alac format though. But AIFF will play just fine in iTunes and everything just the way they are. |
Wow, didn't know you can do that. My final mac newb question. If AIFF files play fine in itunes, then i assume the reason you convert AIFF to Alac is for a more compact lossless compression? I'm assuming raw lossless AIFF files taken from a CD are massive....thus the need for the extra compression via Alac for ipods, etc? Again, appreciate the posts Amp...learned a lot!
