I suspect good CD mastering and audio engineering in the first place probably makes more difference.This week Rogue Amoeba released Audio Hijack 3, the first update to its audio capturing, recording and processing app in over 10 years. One piece, nearly 17 minutes long, comes out at 65mb, 541kbps which is certainly not the highest I've seen by a long way.īut does it sound any better than a 'regular' CD? Since I don't have a comparison disc and am currently listening through fairly standard speakers, I can't swear, but I think there's no discernable difference. I just couldn't face the task of finding the exact movement breaks, so ended up with three tracks for the iTunes library. This particular disc contains three pieces of music, two in four movements and one in five movements. This whole process is a pain: with 1x rip speed and no cue sheet, the job is slow. Then I converted (via XLD) to Apple Lossless and edited the album down to its tracks (in Quicktime). But anyway - to answer your question, I used Audio Hijack to rip via DVD Player to AIFF. From what I've read (and I'm absolutely an audio newbie so may be wrong) I now gather that it's a (failing) competitor to SACD and that playing it through DVD player on the Mac probably invalidates its (questionable) audio benefit. Having bought the discs, I thought I'd better read up on the format.
Sorry for the late reply - been busy with work.īut I ripped the DVD-A tonight. It looks like I need to try WireTap and see how it goes. This all makes me think I should suggest this kind of functionality (surround sound capability) for a sort of iTunes-Pro product that Apple should develop. I'm not a sound guy and don't understand the significance of hi-definition sound but realise I'm going to listen to the iTunes output through stereo speakers and want to keep as much of the sound quality as possible.Īctually, (while i'm warming to the subject) I now remember that with Audio Hijack, there was an additional problem: maximum file size was capped at some limit (3GB?) which effectively prevented ripping an entire piece of audio as WAV in one go. I've used something similar in the past (Audio Hijack, I think) to achieve the same end but posted here really because I wonder about achieving the highest audio quality I can. I should have clarified - yes, I'm aware that iTunes can't rip it! In fact, I'm grateful to you for the WireTap idea.
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