What are the best settings for ripping cd's in the AAC format?

I have researched and found out that the AAC format rules over the MP3 format as fas as sound quality goes with lossy formats. Example: AAC at 128 is better than MP3 at 160 as so forth. My questions are: What are the best settings for ripping cd's in the AAC format? Will I be able to burn cd mixes with the tracks I import into itunes after importing using the AAC format? Does the AAC format have VBR like the MP3 format? Is there other ripping software such as dbPoweramp and Exact Audio Copy that does a better job ripping cd's in the AAC format? Please help!

mysteryroach wrote:
My questions are: What are the best settings for ripping cd's in the AAC format?
It is a matter of opinion, but I suggest 256 kb/s, CBR, and leave all other settings on automatic.
Will I be able to burn cd mixes with the tracks I import into itunes after importing using the AAC format?
Yes. Just put them in a playlist and burn.
Does the AAC format have VBR like the MP3 format?
Yes. You will see it as an option in the Import Settings.
Is there other ripping software such as dbPoweramp and Exact Audio Copy that does a better job ripping cd's in the AAC format?
EAC does a better job of correcting errors in damaged CDs, but for normal CDs iTunes does a fine job of ripping to AAC.

Similar Messages

  • What are the best settings for exporting video in Premiere Pro Cs5.5 in HD MP4 format?

    What are the best settings for exporting video in Premiere Pro Cs5.5 in HD MP4 format?
    Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks

    function(){return A.apply(null,[this].concat($A(arguments)))}
    bmiller0525 wrote:
    What are the best settings for exporting video in Premiere Pro Cs5.5 in HD MP4 format?
    Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks
    thats way too vague of a question... best what?  quality? size? playback?
    best quality then use high bitrate, small size use low bitrate.

  • What are the best settings for video  compression if my end result is for use as  progressive .flv

    What are the best settings for video compression if my end result is for use as  progressive .flv.?
    Thanks,
    KIM

    Use the Final Cut Studio forum
    http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=939

  • Whats the best settings for exporting a three camera youtube video on a mac book pro

    I need help figureing out Whats the best settings for exporting a three camera youtube video on a mac book pro. I use 15 or 30 fps and aI cant figurwe it out [please help

    chucknoris501
    What version of Premiere Elements are you using on Mac?
    Export your Timeline content to a .mp4 file, using export settings which have been customized under the Advanced Button/Video Tab of the export's preset.
    See Publish+Share/Computer/AVCHD and .mp4 category. The exported file is then uploaded to YouTube at the YouTube web site.
    If you post the properties of your source video and project settings, I will suggest the settings for the Timeline content export to file saved to the computer
    hard drive for upload to YouTube at the YouTube web site.
    ATR

  • Which are the best settings for exporting comps before edditing in Premiere Pro

    Hello everyone!
    As the title says, which are the best settings for exporting comps from AE to Pr.Pro and then edit them?
    Let  me explain: I have two comps in AE (intro and outro) and want to export  them in Pr.Pro for edditing along with a fottage i shot.
    When i render them the size of the files are huge (30 sec= 7GB).
    Which  is the best method (and settings) i can export the intro and outro to a 'normal' file  size and then put them in Pr.Pro without loosing any quality??
    [Comp settings: HDTV 1080 29.97 (1920x1080)]
    AE and Premiere Pro both CS4

    If you're rendering and exporting an intermediate video file to go from After Effects to any other piece of post-production software (such as Premiere Pro), you want to make sure that you're not losing any quality.
    Most compression methods, which make movies smaller, also lose some of the image data---i.e., quality. There are a few compression methods that don't lose any image data; these are "lossless" codecs. These lossless codecs do decrease the size of a video file, but they're nowhere near as effective at decreasing size as the lossy codecs are. But file size isn't important when you're doing post-production work. Big files are a fact of life in post-production.
    Examples of lossless codecs include the PNG codec and the Animation codec at the highest quality settings, both of which can be used in a QuickTime (.mov) container. I prefer the PNG codec; it's more efficient for photorealistic images, whereas Animation is more efficient for things like cartoons. There are lots of other lossless and nearly lossless codecs. A lot of people that do video editing like the Lagarith codec, but that is something that you'd have to go and get; it's not part of a standard CS5 or QuickTime installation.
    See these FAQ entries for information about compression and why file sizes are big for losslessly encoded files:
    "FAQ: Why is my output file huge...?"
    "FAQ: What is the best format for rendering and exporting from After Effects?"
    By the way, keep in mind that you don't always need to render and export an intermediate movie to go from After Effects to Premiere Pro. There are other ways to move data back and forth between these applications, including Dynamic Link. Which is best depends on the specific circumstance. See "Working with Premiere Pro and After Effects".

  • What are Novells recommended settings for policies

    Hello,
    Who can tell me please what are Novells recommended settings for policies? Should we make a few big Policy where everything is handled (for example a policy for standalone workstations, one for desktop PCs, one for notebooks etc..) or single policies (for example "Desktop Wallpaper", "Enable Active Desktop", or "Turn off Aero Shake window minimizing mouse gesture" and so on) and put them in a PolicyGroup. What is the best way?

    The fewer the policies the better.
    Generally Folks do something such as a WS assigned policy as a baseline
    and then a user one to over-ride.
    Trying to create one policy per setting would likely cause windows great
    confusion as well as being very slow.
    On 3/14/2011 7:36 AM, Schneekette wrote:
    >
    > Hello,
    >
    > Who can tell me please what are Novells recommended settings for
    > policies? Should we make a few big Policy where everything is handled
    > (for example a policy for standalone workstations, one for desktop PCs,
    > one for notebooks etc..) or single policies (for example "Desktop
    > Wallpaper", "Enable Active Desktop", or "Turn off Aero Shake window
    > minimizing mouse gesture" and so on) and put them in a PolicyGroup. What
    > is the best way?
    >
    >
    Craig Wilson - MCNE, MCSE, CCNA
    Novell Knowledge Partner
    Novell does not officially monitor these forums.
    Suggestions/Opinions/Statements made by me are solely my own.
    These thoughts may not be shared by either Novell or any rational human.

  • What are the best settings for a retina display image?

    If we Export for Web then view it on a retina display monitor, the image lines look blurry and it's not as crisp as non-retina display monitors.
    What are the best settings when intended for retina display monitors while keeping the file size down?
    Thanks!

    Mark, yes a DVD will play back on a HDTV, just the quality will not match the capability of the playback device. This is certainly the easiest approach though.
    As the article you referenced says, ensuring that your previews are set to a larger pixel dimension than your required output will ensure maximum quality, given that you will more than likely have movement on the images in the slide show I would suggest going with pixel dimensions that are at least 1920px.
    Let us know how you go.
    Tony

  • Whats the best settings to rip DVD to Mpeg Streamclip for use in FCE??

    Hi there.
    Ok, I using MPEG Streamclip to rip a DVD for editing on FCE.
    Whats the best settings to get it to my hard drive?
    MPEG4?? Compression rate??
    Chris

    Assuming your DVD plays widescreen, the better settings in MPEG Streamclip would be:
    Export to QuickTime
    Compression = Apple Intermediate Codec
    Frame size = 1920x1080
    Pretty much everything else should remain at default settings.
    Keep in mind that if you have an NTSC DVD, the resulting QT/AIC video will be 60i.
    In FCE, select the AVCHD 1920x1080i60 easy setup, create a new sequence, import the converted file and edit away. The quality should be very nice.

  • What are the best settings for a slideshow on DVD

    So I'm looking at this helpful article -- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3781 -- and wondering: if I want to make a slideshow to burn on a DVD to show on a large-screen HDTV, what would be the right settings for Photo Preview and Photo Quality?  Thanks!

    Mark, yes a DVD will play back on a HDTV, just the quality will not match the capability of the playback device. This is certainly the easiest approach though.
    As the article you referenced says, ensuring that your previews are set to a larger pixel dimension than your required output will ensure maximum quality, given that you will more than likely have movement on the images in the slide show I would suggest going with pixel dimensions that are at least 1920px.
    Let us know how you go.
    Tony

  • What is the best method for saving files off of the hard drive?

    I would like to save music files and photos somewhere other than my hard drive (eg. CDs, DVDs, zip disks). What is the best method for doing this?

    It rather depends on how paranoid you are
    External hard drives protect you from hard disk trouble on your machine.
    Optical media (CD's, DVD's) protect you from trouble with magnetic disks - such as external hard drives and the HD in your machine. Optical disks are thought to be more reliable that magnetic disks for long term storage.
    Off site back-ups will protect you from fire or theft at your home or office.
    How paranoid are you? Personally everything is backed up across three diferent external HD's. And maybe twice a year I burn a copy of my photos onto DVDs and they go to a relative's house across town.
    Regards
    TD

  • What is the best  way for using a  C++ in the EJB?

    What is the best way for using C++ in the EJB ie
    either 1. Socket programming
    2. JNI

    To what purpose?
    To use C++ in the client you could generate IDL from your remote interfaces and run that through your vendor's IDL-to-C++ processor.

  • How to find out the best settings for BDT

    Hi there.
    I am trying to predict a movie rating. I downloaded datasets from IMDb, prepared them. A tried all of the regression algorithms, but the best result is giving Boosted Decision Tree. Now I am dealing with the best settings in this algorithm.
    With default, running time was 69 seconds and the mean absolute error was 0.4844, which is quite much I think. So I tried to improve it by changing parameters of the BDT module. I tried to set Leaves per tree to 150 and than experimentaly find
    remaining parameters. I've come to Samples per leaf=12, Learning rate=0.04 and
    Number of trees=700. Running time was 78 seconds and mean absolute error was 0.4596.
    Input of the algorithm is joined matrix with 14 columns (11 features) and 67672 rows splitted into 70:30 (training:testing).
    Is there any way how to find out the best setting of Boosted Decision Tree?

    Yordan's suggestion is correct, though the documentation is a bit outdated.
    You can use the single parameter + sweeper mode or define your own custom ranges in the BDT module with the Parameter Range setting
    Regards,
    aK

  • Which case offers the best protection for ipad2 I have tried the SURVIVOR but the little rubber things protecting the ports have broken offthanks

    Which case offers the best protection for the ipad2 I have tried the Survivor however the pieces protecting the ports has ripped off. Any suggestions?

    You had to have some kudos for the effort put in to your thread as week as the point you make.

  • 4K footage to DVD: what are the best settings for exporting in Premiere Pro CC v7.2.2?

    Hello everyone!
    I am editing a big bunch of short 4K clips (XAVC in MP4) which will then go onto DVDs. The idea is to get as many of those clips on a DVD as possible. Using Premiere Pro 7.2.2 on Windows 8.
    What I would like to know is whether I'm actually using the best possible settings for this case, because the video exported to MPEG2-DVD doesn't look that good. Or maybe it needs to be exported to a different format and rather converted to DVD format after?
    The sequence setting are the following:
    RED Cinema
    Frame rate: 29,97 fps
    3840x2160 (16:9)
    Square pixels
    The export settings I've been using:
    MPEG2-DVD
    Aspect  ratio: 16:9
    TV Format: PAL
    Field order: progressive
    Frame rate: 25
    Video quality: 100
    Bitrate: VBR
    1, I've tried different bitrates, also setting minimum at 9, but this blows up the file size too much (as i mentioned, the idea is to get at many clips as possible on a DVD)
    GOP: M - 3, N - 15 (haven't touched those)
    Multiplexer: none (should i put DVD?)
    I'm using maximum render quality
    Have I given all the information?
    Any help will be appreciated!@

    As Ann has advised do not expect too much, you are going down a lot in quality.
    Why are you also going from NTSC to a PAL output?
    Premiere will drop frames to get from 29.97 to  25.
    PAL DVD players read NTSC discs fine as long as they are region 0
    Why are you trying to produce a DVD anyway?
    A Bluray would be far better quality.
    Also a minimum 9 is way wrong, c9.6 is the max in the spec and hence avoided as your system is trying to push the spec limits to close.
    I used to use 6 - 7.5 - 8.8 in my VBR and they looked fine, now I am all HD.

  • What are the Best settings for GEforce GTX680 & Premiere Pro CC

    I have purchased the Geforce GTX 680 mac edition and installed in my Mac Pro 2012. However, there are some settings in Premiere Pro that are a little  perplexing to me. To maximize the effectiveness of video card and get  the best render times I want to make sure my settings are correct.
    I  read that under Sequence Settings it is best to check off Maximum  Render Quality and then under Preferences > Memory I should check off  Memory instead of Performance. Am I correct in doing this?

    I own a Mid 2012 Mac Pro which had a ATI Radeon HD 5870 and replaced it with a GeForce GTX 680 bought from Amazon in the UK.
    Card Installation - first issue I had was getting the old ATI card out, after undid the obvious screws it just wouldn't come out, so I read the Mac manual reminding me to press the button on the grey plastic card holder which moves a metal bar out the way, then it came out easily! Once card was installed I switched on the power and the Mac stayed on the grey Apple logo screen for 20 minutes. Called Nvidia in Germany and got a guy who only knew Windows who told me to reinstall the old card, delete the ATI drivers and try again, such a Windows tech support response! I knew this was not how Apple work, so I searched the forums and it turned out I need to fully turn the power off at the wall for both the Mac Pro and my 27" Apple Cinema Display as they seem to retain some settings from the previous setup. Once I did that, the Mac booted up correctly :-)
    CUDA Drivers: It is very odd there is no mention of having to install the CUDA drivers in any of the documentation you get from Nvidia, but thanks to this forum thread I knew to go to the CUDA drivers page at http://www.nvidia.co.uk/object/mac-driver-archive-uk.html
    and downloaded the CUDA driver, it installed and when I ran my old premiere projects with an embed After Effects clip in them, unlike before wiht the ATI the timeline rendered them in real time, so that is a major improvement.
    Dilema: only question left is whether to be using the CUDA settings or OpenCL option in the Premiere Pro CC > Projects Settings tab?

Maybe you are looking for

  • Problem with increasing page width

    Hi, When I try to increase iWeb page width from 684px to 900px, there is an unexpected redundant white area at the bottom right corner of the page. Please see the screenshot here: http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/7244/screenshot20090713at600.png I

  • Nokia 6300, iSync, and Contact Photos-

    Thanks to the following links, I was able to get my new Nokia 6300 to successfully sync with my Mac’s Address Book via iSync: http://klauskjeldsen.dk/2007/06/08/free-nokia-6300-isync-plugin/ http://nokia6300.net/8/new-version-of-the-nokia-6300-isync-

  • Alert Configuration during Mapping

    If Source XML does not have some values, I have to create alert from PI. I have to send Mail to Sender. How I can configure alert during mapping. I need step by step solution as I am new for Alert.

  • Documents of Record doesnt display for all employees inCustom Responsiblity

    Hi I have created custom responsibility with function of Documents of Record. I have enabled the Passport and Visa Information under this custom responsibility, it is not displaying the icon fro searching employees, default it is showing the same emp

  • Unable to display page after database clone

    We are currently running Application Express 4.02 using Oracle Web Logic on a Suse Linux 11 server. We had a new database set up for APEXPRD port 1542 that was working correctly with application express. We also had a database set up for APEXTST port