Sun, 15 Jan 2006

Let It Rain

And it's perfect day of sunshine right now. Let It Rain is a song by Eric Clapton, which I purchased from the iTunes music store the other night. But I already own it - I ripped it from my CD. Why did I purchase a song I already owned? Because I wanted to compare formats: Apple's AAC with Fairplay DRM versus a standard MP3. Hearing is, after all, believing.

Both were encoded at 128 bps. The AAC file was about a megabyte larger on disk, probably a consequence of the DRM. And it did sound better - not alot, but it was noticeable.

I just had to find out for myself, and 99¢ is not too much to waste for an experiment.

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