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Apple Releases iTunes 9.1 to Support iPad
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Using a MBP analog headphone output to inexpensive Sennheiser CX 300 earbuds the difference is obvious and I'd hardly call that combination a quality music playback system.
People always say that in noisy environments you can't tell the difference, but that seems to assume everything under a particular amplitude threshold will be lost. That's simply not true. Human hearing is more sensitive to some frequencies than others and is also adaptive. We can learn to ignore "white noise" and remain capable of picking out subtlety.
If you start with high quality it's possible that your hardware and environment will yield crappy sound.
If you start with crap then it's guaranteed you'll get crappy sound.
This applies to the entire chain. A lousy recording at 1441 kbps will likely sound worse than a better recording compressed to 192 kbps.
At some point each of us has to decide whether subtle differences in sound that aren't obvious in all listening environments are worth the extra storage space.
Confirmed: Artwork does transfer
I can confirm this as well. Just manually transferred two AAC tracks, one in 192 kbps and one in AAC Lossless, and both albums still exhibit their respective artwork.
The iPhone just has to "update library" when you first launch the iPod with the newly transferred, newly converted tracks.
Now time to delete library on iPhone and retransfer everything using 128
I can confirm this as well. Just manually transferred two AAC tracks, one in 192 kbps and one in AAC Lossless, and both albums still exhibit their respective artwork.
The iPhone just has to "update library" when you first launch the iPod with the newly transferred, newly converted tracks.
Now time to delete library on iPhone and retransfer everything using 128
Convert higher bit rate songs to 128kbps AAC.
Is there any way of estimating how much space on the iPod will be saved, when this box is ticked?
I know I could calculate the size difference using a formula, but this would be difficult if several different types of files are to be converted.
I've just ticked the checkbox, and iTunes is resyncing my iPod, but there is no indication of how much space it will save.
Thanks for your help.
Richard
Is there any way of estimating how much space on the iPod will be saved, when this box is ticked?
I know I could calculate the size difference using a formula, but this would be difficult if several different types of files are to be converted.
I've just ticked the checkbox, and iTunes is resyncing my iPod, but there is no indication of how much space it will save.
Thanks for your help.
Richard
Check the parental controls for Radio and try manually invoking a Genius update from the menu bar. Can't help with the bloat ...
Check the parental controls for Radio and try manually invoking a Genius update from the menu bar. Can't help with the bloat ...
Thanks a lot
Just started adding some Public Domain eBooks.
Are you able to add .PDF ebooks too?
No settings for the automatic bitrate conversion when syncing
Extending this function to all iPods is great, but without any choice of encoding options it remains useless for I suspect a large proportion of people who were begging for this.
I guess I'll still be mucking around with 256kbps duplicates of my lossless collection.
Extending this function to all iPods is great, but without any choice of encoding options it remains useless for I suspect a large proportion of people who were begging for this.
I guess I'll still be mucking around with 256kbps duplicates of my lossless collection.
If currently your music is at 256 kbps, the formula is 256/128. Hope that is not too difficult.
What were they thinking...now you have to mouse up to the menubar to do it. Usability FAIL.
The 128kbps AAC-option on a per-iPod basis looks really promising.
I've ripped my CDs at a significantly higher bitrate for playback on good equipment, but until now the high bitrate's been a waste of space on the iPods. My earphones aren't that good anyway. Hopefully 128kbps AAC will be a good match for the cheap earphones combined with the usual listening environment.
Either that, or someone maybe makes it possible to hack a higher bitrate?
I've ripped my CDs at a significantly higher bitrate for playback on good equipment, but until now the high bitrate's been a waste of space on the iPods. My earphones aren't that good anyway. Hopefully 128kbps AAC will be a good match for the cheap earphones combined with the usual listening environment.
Either that, or someone maybe makes it possible to hack a higher bitrate?