I'm in the process of making a lossless library of my huge music collection, and I'm using apple lossless and iTunes. However, to convert FLAC files to Apple Lossless, I use Toast Titanium 9 (I have a mac).
There are a couple of issues I don't understand though...
1: What's the apple lossless "render quality" setting for? Lossless is lossless right..? It doesn't affect the bitrate/compression rate.
2: All my music files converter from FLAC to ALAC are compressed to 705kbps.
This is strange since iTunes compress files from everything from 280 to 1180kbps. It's doubtful that Toast's apple lossless encoder should be able to compress audio files several hundred kbps better than iTunes?
iTunes plays all the toast ALAC files just fine though..
It would be nice to know that everything's OK in terms of future compability with iPods etc., no lossy or faulty compression etc. Software bugs is known to happen..
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!