Yeah, so I'm finally entering the world of ipods! I got an iPod shuffle that was my brothers until he gave it to my sister but she got a nano so now it mine! Yay! <3 So... I'm holding an iPod, I've downloaded iTunes... and... uhm... now... >_> I have no idea.
I need to import music from my CDs onto iTunes... so should I use the MP3 format or the AAC format? Those are the best ones right? There's also AIFF, WAVE, and Apple Loseless? Is one newer? Better? Will it make a difference on my iPod or with sound quality?
Yeah, someone help me enter the world of technology =P I'm a teen! I should be good at this stuff ^^;;
Thanks!
2007-01-02 16:15:33 · 6 answers · asked by SIPT 2 in Consumer Electronics ➔ Music & Music Players
if you want to convert from cd to itunes but want it to be universal, keep it as mp3. You can save a step by keeping it in that format and play it in other players. But your downloads for itunes store will be in aac. If it doesn't matter to you then keep it simple and use aac. You can always convert it to mp3 when you burn a cd. Keep the bit rate at 128 (default). Unless your an audiophile and play music on a home unit increasing the bit rate will not make a whole lot of difference when listening on an ipod. It just takes more memory space.
btw: just because your a teen doesn't necessarily mean you are suppose to know this stuff. If you can turn on a computer then you got a leg up. It was trial and error for me with itunes when it first came out ( ipods were not invented yet).
2007-01-02 17:43:43 · answer #1 · answered by buddhaboy 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Is Aac Better Than Mp3
2016-11-11 04:54:29 · answer #2 · answered by rott 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mp3 Or Aac
2016-12-26 06:26:25 · answer #3 · answered by atwater 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can get more understanding on AAC and MP3 from Apple. The music from your CDs that imported to iTunes is in AAC format. If you insert MP3 music, its will not change. Before you insert music, you can setting the sound on advanced tool bar under importing from Preferences. You can increse the volume for your selection music by using get info under options
2007-01-02 16:56:46 · answer #4 · answered by awkf 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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What's the difference between AAC and MP3? Which one should I used with itunes to put music on my new ipod?
Yeah, so I'm finally entering the world of ipods! I got an iPod shuffle that was my brothers until he gave it to my sister but she got a nano so now it mine! Yay! <3 So... I'm holding an iPod, I've downloaded iTunes... and... uhm... now... >_> I have no idea.
I need to...
2015-08-20 16:11:59 · answer #5 · answered by Morgun 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
MP3 is an audio-specific compression format. It provides a representation of pulse-code modulation-encoded audio in much less space than straightforward methods, by using psychoacoustic models to discard components less audible to human hearing, and recording the remaining information in an efficient manner. Similar principles are used by JPEG, a lossy image compression format.
The MP3 format uses a hybrid transformation to transform a time domain signal into a frequency domain signal:
* 32-band polyphase quadrature filter.
* 36 or 12 tap MDCT; size can be selected independently for sub-bands 0...1 and 2...31.
* Aliasing reduction postprocessing.
MP3 audio can be compressed with several different bit rates, providing a range of tradeoffs between data size and sound quality.
The MPEG specifications support Advanced audio coding (AAC) from MPEG-4 as MP3's successor, although other new audio formats have also achieved similar usage levels. However, MP3's extreme popularity makes it secure in its dominant position for the near future, with support from a huge range of software and hardware, including portable MP3 players and even some DVD and CD players. The large MP3 collections that many individuals have amassed will also ensure its longevity, in the same way as with any physical medium.
AAC's improvements over MP3
AAC was designed to have better performance than MP3 (which was specified in MPEG-1 and MPEG-2) by the ISO/IEC in 11172-3 and 13818-3.
Improvements include:
* More Sample frequencies (from 8 kHz to 96 kHz) than MP3 (16 kHz to 48 kHz)
* Up to 48 channels (MP3 supports up to two channels in MPEG-1 mode and up to 5.1 channels in MPEG-2 mode)
* Higher efficiency and simpler filterbank (hybrid → pure MDCT)
* Higher coding efficiency for stationary signals (blocksize: 576 → 1024 samples)
* Higher coding efficiency for transient signals (blocksize: 192 → 128 samples)
* Can use Kaiser-Bessel derived window function to eliminate spectral leakage at the expense of widening the main lobe
* Much better handling of frequencies above 16 kHz
* More flexible joint stereo (separate for every scale band)
This gives developers more flexibility to design codecs that offer more efficient compression as compared to MP3. However in terms of whether AAC is better than MP3, the advantages of AAC are not entirely conclusive, and the MP3 specification, while outdated, has proven surprisingly robust. AAC and HE-AAC are better than MP3 at very low bitrates, however at medium to higher bitrates, the two formats are more comparable.
2007-01-02 16:19:21 · answer #6 · answered by The Man With No Face 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I would use MP3 because it works with everything. AAC only works with Apple products.
2007-01-02 16:26:47 · answer #7 · answered by devil's advocate 4 · 0⤊ 5⤋
i would use mp3 format, it is universal and have the quality at 160kbs.
2007-01-02 16:21:07 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous10 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋