Aqua-Soft ForumsI just started buying music from the store and the service is great. However I am not happy with the quality(128kbs aac) it sounds like crap on my stero. Is there a way to get higher quality aac songs from apple?
Music Quality From Music Store
You can crank your music up so loud that you screw up your ears and arnt able to tell the diffrence anymore like me.
burn them to cds and then import them at 320, heh. jk, i dont think it would make a difference.
-Lou
Lou, That would actually bring down the quality.
There is no way to make 128 sound good at all. Save your money and buy the CD's if you're looking for quality.
they are at 128?????? or are you confusing them with the 30sec previews
Originally posted by Lou@Feb 29 2004, 03:48 PMjust curious, what if you have a 320, burn and import? will it still go down?
-Lou
Yes. Anytime you transfer formats quality will always still go down. You can go above the quality because it doesnt have any data, and in any transfer theres bound to be some errors in writing and whatnot. Mabie a pice of dust gets on the CD-r or something. Also nothing is a 100% translation no matter how hard you try, you always loose soemthing (if just a little tiny bit)
edit: btw goku could you explain your avitar?
I though you could choise the quality whene buying songs :naughty:
I'm not sure if you can choose the quality. I dont think you can. Im gonna look for it today. Thanks for the input.
Originally posted by Goku@Feb 29 2004, 11:22 AMthey are at 128?????? or are you confusing them with the 30sec previews
They're encoded at 128 kbps in AAC format (though listed as .m4p)
@puckchump: No, you can't. Apple uses 128 becuase it's considered the "standard" and consumes much less bandwidth than a higher bitrate would.
They're encoded at 128 kbps in AAC format (though listed as .m4p)@puckchump: No, you can't. Apple uses 128 becuase it's considered the "standard" and consumes much less bandwidth than a higher bitrate would.
Thats poor, and exactly the reason why I won't buy online music yet. I say use any number of sites to preview music then buy the cd and make your own. 
Originally posted by lostspyder@Feb 29 2004, 01:30 PMYes. Anytime you transfer formats quality will always still go down. You can go above the quality because it doesnt have any data, and in any transfer theres bound to be some errors in writing and whatnot. Mabie a pice of dust gets on the CD-r or something. Also nothing is a 100% translation no matter how hard you try, you always loose soemthing (if just a little tiny bit)
A .wav file is basically the closest you can get to actual CD quality since it is not compressed. Once you compress a file-be it .mp3, .ogg, .mp4 or whatever-there is considerable loss in quality-or more specifically, data-depending on the bitrate you choose. The higher the bitrate, the less loss. But once a file is already converted to a compressed format, it is already missing certain data, thus burning and re-compressing to a higher bitrate only diminishes the quality even further by removing even more data.
So with this said, while the 128 kbs compression in the Apple music store is indeed horrendous, unless they decide to offer higher bitrates you're not going to get what you download to sound any better.
Originally posted by Max Power@Mar 9 2004, 12:37 PMA .wav file is basically the closest you can get to actual CD quality since it is not compressed. Once you compress a file-be it .mp3, .ogg, .mp4 or whatever-there is considerable loss in quality-or more specifically, data-depending on the bitrate you choose. The higher the bitrate, the less loss. But once a file is already converted to a compressed format, it is already missing certain data, thus burning and re-compressing to a higher bitrate only diminishes the quality even further by removing even more data.
Unless using lossless compression, of course, like Flac or Monkey's Audio. Which should be available on every online music store, instead of limiting the choice to crappy 128 kbps.