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JohnDuncan:chebby:When I look at word length and sampling rate of my Apple Lossless files they are 16 bit and 44.1 khz. 'Bit rate' (on a randomly selected Roy Orbison track) is 909 kbps. (iTunes) What should it be? Edit: just randomly selected another track (Blondie) and it is 983 kbps It averages them out depending on how much information is actually on the track....
John, on forums on another website some think that iTunes is not good enough even as an Apple Lossless encoder since they believe it does not perform error-checking or re-sampling on poor discs like EAC + AccurateRip, what are your views on this?
It does perform error checking if you switch it on in Preferences, but you're right - there's no way of checking that you have a bit-perfect copy like with EAC. Now I rip discs as soon as I get them so I don't really consider this an issue, but since I have a Mac and neither EAC nor dbPoweramp work on it, it's the best I can get, short of running Windows under Boot Camp. And seeing as it sounds better than my CD player, I'll take that.