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EDIT: Woops! Searched for DRM and Steve Jobs, saw nothing on the main page and posted Smile

http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughtsonmusic/

tid bit of meat:
"Today’s most popular iPod holds 1000 songs, and research tells us that the average iPod is nearly full. This means that only 22 out of 1000 songs, or under 3% of the music on the average iPod, is purchased from the iTunes store and protected with a DRM. The remaining 97% of the music is unprotected and playable on any player that can play the open formats. Its hard to believe that just 3% of the music on the average iPod is enough to lock users into buying only iPods in the future. And since 97% of the music on the average iPod was not purchased from the iTunes store, iPod users are clearly not locked into the iTunes store to acquire their music."
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#2
See http://forums.macresource.com/read/1/244312
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#3
[quote laarree]See http://forums.macresource.com/read/1/244312
Sorry!
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#4
No one has answered my question from a thread from a couple days ago about importing from a CD so I thought I'd just add it to this thread. It was about what settings are used and I wondered that if it's going into your iPod, why wouldn't you use MP3 Encoder at 192kbps?
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#5
Different strokes for different folks. I do everything with 192 Mp3 encoder.
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#6
why wouldn't you use MP3 Encoder at 192kbps?


1) For some people, the sound quality of the default 128 BR is adequate, and takes up less room than the 192BR.

Used only in a noisy environment and/or with moderate to low quality headphones, or by somebody who does not listen critically, 192 could be overkill.

2) For some people, the sound quality of lower bit-rates is not acceptable giving their hearing and listening environment, so 256 and 320 AAC, Apple Lossless, or AIFF make for more satisfactory choices.

A critical listener may also connect their iPod to a home audio system which can reveal flaws in the file type more readily than just using headphones. In such cases 192 won't be good enough (and *possibly* no compressed format may be good enough) for some.

Those are some of the reasons that different folks prefer different strokes.
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#7
Without my going into Get Info to check them all out, I assume then that AAC, AIFF, and AL are larger files than MP3 Encoder.
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#8
AIFF is uncompressed (Mac version of .wav files), AAC I believe is variable bit rate, AL is smaller than 192kbps MP3. Mp3 192 is on the larger side of file sizes in music formats.
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#9
Cool. Thanx.
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#10
I am going to assume that by AL you mean Apple Lossless.
AL is NOT going to be smaller than 192kbps anything, as AL is LOSSLESS compression, with a compression ratio of only about 2:1 whereas most lossy compression schemes will get you greater than 10:1 ratios.
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