Lossy vs Lossless Audio/ iTunes importing/encoding?

Question

Which is the best format to put my music in (using iTunes) and what is the best bitrate for that format?? Also what is the difference between Lossy and Lossless encoding??
1. ACC
2. AIFF
3. Apple Lossless
4. MP3
5. WAV

Thanks

Answer 1

Which format is best is most likely going to depend on 2 things:
1-Where do you want to play it?
2-How much room do you have?
MP3's are the most widely supported while Apple Lossless only works on IPods and Quicktime though more will soon come in to play. AIFF is also an Apple codec and is to a Mac what the WAV is to Window$ PC's.
WAV will play on some cell phones but is native to the PC and is one the oldest form of digital music, but that's about the end of it's support.
ACC is another Apple endeavor that may very well replace the MP3. But not yet.
ACC is, IMHO, better but lets face it-MP3's play on just about anything.
Bitrate-Simple! The higher the better. Though ACC may is supposedly CD quality at 128kbps which is cassette quality in MP3's.
Lossy- Your codec (COmpressor/DECompressor) takes a audio track thats, say, 6mbs and shrinks it to 3mbs. To shrink the song from the CD (.CDA format) to MP3 format, the codec removes info (there's the loss). Most of the info is frequencies that are out of normal human hearing, but there is a loss. The higher the bitrate the larger the file because the codec samples the file at smaller intervals.
This only touches the tip of the iceberg. Really. Try afterdawn.com and doom9.org for for in-depth turorials and user forums. It's all free.
Good luck and I hope this helps!

Answer 2

with regards to pictures: Lossy signifies that the photograph will lose information, yet this happens truly in undemanding words once you edit them. Jpegs are superb for storing and viewing, yet do not EDIT them in that format. instead, edit them in the community Photoshop format or in TIFF, it is also a lossLESS format. truly what occurs is once you edit and save a JPEG, the compression set of regulations that record style makes use of will always discard information from the photograph, meaning over the years/repeated edits that's going to degrade the photograph high quality. Photoshop .psd format and TIFF do no longer do compression that way, so that you'll be able to edit without demanding that resaving will outcome in lack of high quality. once kept on a CD, there is not any high quality lack of the man information basically over the years, or on establishing, viewing, and closing (or copying over for your not straightforward stress to artwork on, yet do not edit in JPEG.) putting them on a CD shouldn't impression them, until eventually the application you're making use of to burn them gives you yet another layer of compression to the record; that's plausible that could want to impression them, in spite of the undeniable fact that it relies upon on what technique that compression makes use of. if you're only burning them without more beneficial compression, you have to be superb. Sorry i don't know adequate about MP3 vs. FLAC to respond to that query, in spite of the undeniable fact that i think you won't be able to apply those CDs on some thing yet a computer. yet i'm no longer particular about that. i visit allow you to know that burning the MP3 information onto CDs received't electrify their high quality until eventually, back, there is a few type of compression technique used by ability of the application you take advantage of to burn the CDs.