Apple's New Music Service

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Liars.

Apple's website boasted that their format was actually better than CD quality, which reminded me of their earlier claims that the 500mhz G4 tiBook was a “supercomputer.” How can a lossy format be better when the files are ripped from a CD? The main goal of a lossy format is to sound as similar to the uncompressed file as possible, in the smallest footprint possible.

Clearly ogg is the best by a long shot - you must look very hard to see a difference that would suggest aac is better than even mp3.

http://www.phataudio.org/modules.php...er =1&thold=0

edit> toP: wav, others: ogg, aac, mp3, all 128kbit. Guy forgot to name it properly. It would have been better if he would have forgotten something else, for instance displaying the entire photoshop + desktop.