What Audio Format For CD Burning

[rdgrimes]

http://dvdadecoder.sourceforge.net/

That's the add-in for DVD-A.

[sba2]

Most of my itunes music library is from cds, but I also have some rare tracks from lps and cassettes that were copied using Audacity. Hardly any internet downloads really...except for a few that I snatched from Wolfgang's Vault.

After tinkering around for almost four years with various files on various systems, the wav, the apple lossless, and the 320kb files have always sounded identical to me. I can only detect a difference when going down to 128kb, where I perceive less depth in some of the passages.

FWIW, the most audible improvement in my system turned out to be sound-card related. Very early on I had to order a higher quality sound-card (Echo Indigo I-O) in order to support stereo recording on my laptop..and that's when I noticed the improvement over both the OEM card and the portable ipod player.