Wednesday, October 15, 2003

iPod review in Stereophile magazine The high-resolution ripping option is AIFF (so closely associated with Apple that some wags insist it stands for Apple's Interchange File Format). The format creates files that contain the raw audio data, channel information (monophonic or stereophonic), bit depth, and sample rate, as well as application-specific data areas, which allow different applications to add information to the file header that aren't removed when the files are processed by other applications—a feature of greater interest to folks who create music on their computers than to those of us transferring pre-recorded music to our storage media. In other words, AIFF is a memory hog, but it's an audiophile's kind of memory hog, since it throws away no data in an attempt to compress the file size. I use the iPod to listen to new mixes. Since I use AIFF files on Pro-Tools, all I have to do is move the stereo-mix file to my iPod to listen to it..... A 30GB iPod could carry about 40-50 CDs ripped at full bandwidth in the AIFF format.... 7:25:02 AM    comment [];

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