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Another Stab at SanityTalking with a friend about iTunes. Bought a CD and this began a conversation about audio fidelity and DRM. An excerpt: Him: I could never buy music I can’t use. And on and on. Never quite won per se, but he never had a good reason to keep holding his side. Much like France. [rimshot] {laugh} “Any man with eyes in his head, whatever the ideas in his head, who looks at the world as it is today, must know that the whole social substance of marriage has changed . . . Numbers of normal people are getting married, thinking already that they may be divorced . . . The Church was right to refuse even the exception. The world has admitted the exception; and the exception has become the rule . . . The Catholic Church, standing almost alone, declared that it would in fact lead to an anarchical position; and the Catholic Church was right.” — The Well and the Shallows, NY: Sheed & Ward, 1935, 42-43 – G. K. Chesterton |
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Geeze. Is he just the kind of person who never wants to “lose” an argument?
And in terms of audio quality, the AAC’s are really very good quality. Even if you use something like Ovolab AAChoo to rip m4p’s to m4a (AAChoo can re-rip at a higher quality than iTunes lets you, just using QT), it’s still extremely good quality. My older brother bought an m4p for a track he had on a CD and ripped the m4p to m4a. He then compared the m4a to the CD with very good headphones and could barely tell the difference (and that was him really straining to hear a difference). He then tried the same thing with a really good speaker setup and couldn’t tell a difference. In fact, sometimes he thought the CD was the worse quality
If you want a pretty good reason to buy digital music over traditional CDs, take a look at how much physical storage space you need for 2000 CDs versus having them on your computer. When I was looking for an apartment a few years ago, this was actually a factor.