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Originally Posted by firefox
In regards to the lossless formats, its best not to use them..
From my understanding (and experience) a .m4a song is around 7mb, whereas a lossless version would use 20mb+ for the same song. It doesn't make storage economical sense, especially if you can't hear the difference (which I couldn't; then again don't take my word for it if you don't believe me, i am only a teen after all and wouldn't know anything about quality music!  )
Also, if your going to use a portable media player those lossless files are going to drag you down hugely in terms of battery life.
Just putting it out there |
Sure this is a downside, but there are workarounds/upsides:
a. first when a 3tb drive costs $250 or so, there really is no size restriction anymore.
b. lossless means rip once for all life, it's future proof, and if you do get a good quality stereo you will hear the difference
c. itunes can let you convert lossless m4a track on the fly to lower quality aac to use on your ipods when you transfer the tracks, so not much impact on your ipod either, and let's face it there storages have grown too.