[trachshack]

I just bought the Beatles' Mono Box Set and imported it to iTunes. Because I have tons of room left on both my iPod and Mac, I did something I never do...imported them using the AIFF encoder. (I left the setting on Automatic.) Now, when I look at the info for the files, they show up as Stereo. I don't have a of technical know-how and I'm assuming that this simply means that the songs will play in two channels. (I know that if the original masters are mono they can't actually "play in stereo".) But my question is...would there have been any advantage to my setting the encoder to Custom and the Channels to Mono instead of Stereo? Thanks.

[Spheric Harlot]

Saving half the space, but nothing else.

[TETENAL]

Use Apple Lossless instead of AIFF.

[moonmonkey]

Seconded.

[auto_immune]

Very Interesting.....

Will the Apple Lossless files take up more space than AIFF files?

What is the main difference between Apple Lossless and AIFF?

[Spheric Harlot]

Apple Lossless is compressed without losing any information. It will be a lot smaller than the uncompressed full-size AIFF file.