CD Ripping - Future Proof
Heated discussion yesterday. OK, the world of CD ripping doesn’t get very animated so this was unusual.
I was called by an installer who advocated ripping to AAC format for his client. I had previously spoken to his client and said in his circumstances I’d go with MP3. The client is an international person - born in Lebanon, educated in London and Boston, worked in every major financial city, now living in Dubai. He wanted a music format that would travel the world and play now and in the future. For me, that says MP3.
Technically, the installer is right. AAC does carry more data at a given compression rate. In terms of pure sound quality 128 kbps AAC is superior to 128 kbps MP3. Yes, it is possible to convert from AAC to MP3 should the need ever arise. My argument was that this client could put even his 600 CD music collection onto a portable drive so space isn’t the issue. We are talking 320 kbps so sound quality differences are theoretical rather than real, and converting around 10,000 tracks from AAC to MP3 is not a trivial task.
Anyway the client is always right (even when he’s wrong) - MP3 it is.
I was called by an installer who advocated ripping to AAC format for his client. I had previously spoken to his client and said in his circumstances I’d go with MP3. The client is an international person - born in Lebanon, educated in London and Boston, worked in every major financial city, now living in Dubai. He wanted a music format that would travel the world and play now and in the future. For me, that says MP3.
Technically, the installer is right. AAC does carry more data at a given compression rate. In terms of pure sound quality 128 kbps AAC is superior to 128 kbps MP3. Yes, it is possible to convert from AAC to MP3 should the need ever arise. My argument was that this client could put even his 600 CD music collection onto a portable drive so space isn’t the issue. We are talking 320 kbps so sound quality differences are theoretical rather than real, and converting around 10,000 tracks from AAC to MP3 is not a trivial task.
Anyway the client is always right (even when he’s wrong) - MP3 it is.
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