![]() ![]() When we say that FLAC is lossless, we mean that it compresses the data without throwing anything away. There’s no workaround for this because that data is just gone. You also can’t usually encode from mp3 -> mp3 or m4a -> m4a without losing information, because the format won’t make exactly the same decisions each time, so data will be lost with each re-encoding. There will be some overlap, but not entirely. When you start with an mp3 and covert to m4a, you now have a file that’s missing all the data that mp3 threw away, plus the data that m4a threw away. The two different formats use different models to determine what data to throw away and what to keep. That process works very well, as long as you’re starting from the original data. What this means in detail is that they make decisions about throwing away audio data that is unlikely to affect what you can actually hear. And if you use a proper tagging tool it can write consistent data to both ID3 v1 and v2 I personally wouldn’t bother, there is nothing wrong with having MP3 files, they are widely supported. But that depends on your hearing and audio equipment, best to try and listen yourself. If you have reasonable high quality MP3s and convert to a proper quality M4A you will probably not notice the difference. The other question of course is if you would notice the quality loss when converting your MP3 files to lossy M4A. But file size will increase significantly, so in the end you will have bigger files with the same quality as the much smaller MP3 files you had before. You would not gain back any loss of quality, but you would not add additional loss either. If you decode the audio data from a lossy format and encode it again in a lossy format you will cause some additional loss.Įxception would be if you encode to lossless M4A files also know as ALAC or to FLAC (also lossless). Both MP3 and AAC ( which is the codec used by lossy M4A files) apply a lossy compression. ![]() ![]() Yes, there will be quality loss, and no, there is no workaround. Is there aaany way to convert my MP3’s into M4A’s without losing quality? I was told there isn’t, but has anyone figured a workaround? Or you can also suggest anything else that didn't cross my mind and just might work for me. Please feel free to answer any of my questions you feel like. (5) Would converting MP3 to FLAC and then to M4A make any sense in terms of minimalizing (or even eliminating) quality loss? I mean instead of just MP3 straight to M4A. (b) Does FLAC have multiple tags versions stored in them like MP3’s? Or is it always just one tag version, like M4A? (4) (a) If not, what if I converted them to the lossless format FLAC? Would there be any quality loss after converting? While I know that I can use software to strip my MP3’s from the ID3 versions I’m not using, I’d prefer to get rid of the MP3 file format altogether. (3) I really want to get rid of this multiple ID3 version tags. (2) M4A files have only one version of tags, which means that (for example) the album field is going to be the same throughout the file, and when played in other players it’s always going to be the same. The file was exactly the same, it’s just that the music players were reading a different ID3 version. (1) I was told one ID3 version of the MP3 file had saved the first one (and that’s what iTunes was reading and showing) and another version had saved the second one (and that’s what the other player was set to display). I was informed that this is due to the file having saved different info in its other ID3 versions, and other players reading that other version instead of the one iTunes reads and displays.įor example, on iTunes, the album field would show up as “The White Album” and on another player it would show up as “THE BEATLES - The White Album ”. Being an iTunes user for years, I only recently found out what ID3 tags versions are on MP3 files, as I was playing the exact same MP3 file on different music players, and some players would display different info in several fields. ![]()
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