Upgrading from MP3!
Upgrading from MP3! Posted on: 27.05.2013 by Wilton Keuning Hey all! I have decided to stop buying MP3's and go strictly lossless in my music files.My question for you all is should I go WAV or AIFF? I know WAV is the standard in like 9/10 applications, but DJ'ing on a Mac I've heard that AIFF is better. I buy from mainly BeatPort and Traxsource both of which sell WAV's, but only BeatPort sells AIFF's which makes me lean toward WAV's again. Also, when you upgrade your BeatPort buys you can only get AIFF's. If I decided to go with WAV's, what is a good free/cheap batch file converter for AIFF-->WAV for Macs? And if I chose to go AIFF will the same application do WAV-->AIFF? Thanks in advance!!! | |
| Wilton Keuning 27.05.2013 |
Originally Posted by padi_04
Cheers for the finder tip. TIL. |
| Nedra Fresneda 27.05.2013 | Only benefit I know of is that AIFF supports tagging, other than that they are pretty much the same. You can use iTunes, Finder (select a bunch of files, right click, encode selected elements) or make a simple script with automator, no need to buy anything. @DISaS73R yes, prices vary between sites but you pay a bit more per track when you buy lossless. |
| Olin Easley 27.05.2013 | If you want to use lossless for DJing just because you believe it's better quality, don't. There won't be any noticeable difference when you play out, it'll just take more space. Just wondering, is lossless more expensive? I've never bought a track which wasn't 320kbps. |
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