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• #Best video and music format converters for mac mac#

However WAV does not support album art and little metadata, so if you wanted to use iTunes, AIFF would be the way to go.

However if you ripped original CD's to AAC, it would be better to rerip them to AIFF for better sound, although I would rip them to WAV format. Therefore a normal CD of music in AIFF would be about 600 to 700 MB, while in AAC it would be 60 to 70 MB. I don't have the figures in front of me at present but I think that AAC filies are about a tenth of the size of AIFF files for the same length of music track.

The only thing you would be doing is increasing the size of the file, with very little gain in sound quality. I don't think it would be worthwhile converting from AAC to AIFF as AAC is produced by removing sections of the original file which you can not get back by converting to AIFF. I must also say that this may be system dependent, as some people on this site find no difference between AIFF, WAV and Apple Lossless, so I would suggest you experiment with a track from a CD you love and rip it to each in turn then have a critical listen to each to find the one you I give the player exclusive access (hog mode) to the DAC.

#Best video and music format converters for mac mac#

If upsampling 2x / 4x use libSampleRate one notch down from Best, as it uses a lot of CPU, which is too much for my 2007 Mac mini. It also depends on the type of music you like listening to, if you like the sound of real instruments recorded in a good acoustic space, then I've found WAV is supreme for realism especially if played back using Audirvana with the SRC libSampleRate, with or without upsampling. However if you are after the best sound I have found that WAV gives the most realistic sound of all the formats, however it does have downsides if you want album cover art and metadata support. It depends what you are looking for, if having album art and metadata is important, AIFF is probably the best bet in the uncompressed formats.