AIFF (Audio Interchange File Format) or WAV (Waveform Audio) are formats that do not compress and discard data.Ĭonverting a large amount of music takes time. If you just want to convert your CDs to individual digital files regardless of size and want to maintain the highest possible audio quality, you can convert tracks on the disc into an uncompressed format. Not all digital-audio conversion software supports every format out there either, so pick a program that meets your needs.
For example, Apple’s iPod hardware and iTunes software do not natively support FLAC files. If you are considering a lossless format, make sure the files will play on the audio devices you use.
Increasing the bit rate - the number of bits per second encoded into the file when it is copied from a CD - in the settings of the audio program you are using to convert the disc can improve the sound quality of a lossy file somewhat, but the file size gets larger with the additional data saved.įLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec), Apple Lossless and Windows Media Audio 9 Lossless are among the common formats around. AAC (Advanced Audio Coding), OGG (Ogg Vorbis) and WMA (Windows Media Audio) are other lossy formats. MP3 is known as a “lossy” compression format because of the discarded audio data. One of the reasons MP3 was used so often was that it created small, listenable audio files that took up a tenth to a quarter of the space of the original file, thanks to an audio-compression process that discards data deemed unnecessary. The MP3 format - short for MPEG Audio Layer III, with MPEG itself short for Moving Pictures Experts Group - has been around for more than 20 years and rose to popularity around the turn of the 21st century, thanks to portable music players and internet file-sharing services. I want to convert more of my compact discs before moving them to long-term storage, but I find the MP3 format doesn’t make for very rich-sounding audio files.
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