Windows 10 with Windows Media Player supports as standard both Apple Lossless and FLAC. Arguably Apple Lossless is still not as widely supported as FLAC but I would say the difference is not as significant as most people think. Originally Apple Lossless was a proprietary format and hence not widely supported except on Apple devices however several years Apple made it open source like FLAC.
Whilst you can convert from CD to AAC and back doing so will irretrievably lose some quality. It is possible to convert without any loss of quality from a CD track to Apple Lossless to FLAC to WAV to AIFF and back again since these are all lossless formats.ĪAC is a lossy compressed format it is generally agreed that for the same bit rate or files size it gives better quality than MP3. Greatly appreciated!Īpple Lossless also known as ALAC is as its names states a lossless compressed copy of the original CD track. it would be nice to have a file that I can access across the board should I choose to use something else maybe in the future. Which should I use? Is there really that much difference in sound quality between Apple Lossless and AAC Encoder? While I'm using Apple Music almost exclusively as the medium for digital music. So I feel like I'd want to find the best sound quality so I guess my question in all of this goes back to Apple Lossless vs AAC Encoder.
Ideally I would want to have the best sound quality files but to my ears no one has really made me hear the real nuances and differences between all the different file types. Although I've never really went out of my way to experiment with different files and quality difference. With all that being said, although I listen to and consume a lot of music, I'm not a huge audiophile when it comes to sound quality. However I've found in trying out this Apple Lossless that the file in turn is not compatible with a lot of other software, programs and apps. With using Apple Music service and matching my imported music though, it's so much more convenient to just use the Apple Music app. I do also import my music locally to a WD drive which I can access on the go (as well as via Plex) so there are alternative ways for me to access my music. I use the Apple Music app to listen to music digitally so what is compatible with Apple Music first and foremost is key for me. I recently across some info that Apple Lossless is similar to FLAC and of the highest sound quality that is compatible with iTunes, where as FLAC is not. I also learned that the m4a file created from the AAC encoder is compatible with much of the same software and apps that an mp3 file extension is. I import a lot of music and I used to import using mp3 encoder then I came across some info in the past that the AAC encoder was the way to go for better quality sound. I am trying to get a little deeper into the differences between Apple Lossless and the AAC Encoder for importing my music.
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