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Posted Mar 16, 2011 @ 12:33 pm by Hells Death - 1269 views

Ok, so I found out my iPod touch, while not a great recorder, records to wonderful lossless .aifc. I know that it's stupid to convert from lossless to lossy, but I just wanna double check... is it ok to convert from lossless to lossless? Like from .aifc to .wav or .flac? Thanks in advance

Posted Mar 17, 2011 @ 10:22 pm by rhece6

I'm no expert by any stretch of the imagination so take my word as a grain of salt. I believe that it all has to do with if you re-encode the file/s themselves. To my knowledge, at least to my belief, if it's a direct conversion (encoding) of, for example; WAV --> FLAC then it's ok. But if you were re-encoding, to my belief (based on what I think I know, lol) you may experience some form of quality loss. Probably unnoticeable to anyone's ears. But since you want to convert from Lossless to Lossless, your result will still be a perfect lossless. dbpoweramp will do it for you. I quickly searched Google and found an audio forum with the same question: Here

Posted Mar 17, 2011 @ 11:30 pm by Hells Death

Ok, thank you! I'm new to a lot of this and I got into it quick. I figured as much but just wanted to double check, again thanks!