Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Just a public service reminder: Burn your music in lossless format.

People have been popping music via videos onto Youtube, and the torrents are littered with meagerly bitrate MP3 rips of popular music, but if all you've ever heard was an MP3 of your favorite songs or whatever you hear straight from the radio (except HD radio), you're missing out on your music.

Choose a lossless format - one that does not use compression when ripping music - to save files that you want to retain fidelity of the music...say FLAC, Apple Lossless or WAV; I should say, you need to tweak your settings when using these formats, because they can still compress, but you don't want compressed music.

And don't worry; you can still make mixed CDs from FLAC and other file formats, particularly if you use a program that I love: CDBurnerXP, for use with Windows 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, Win7.

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