Choosing The Best File Format for Your Music Library
May 20th, 2009
When you are ripping your music CDs to build a music library, you have many options when it comes to the choice of audio file formats. WAV, MP3, AAC, Apple Lossless, Flac, APE, Ogg and WMA are the more popular audio formats among others. The best practice is to narrow down the file format choice to one or two formats when you build your music library for ease of management.
Unfortunately there is no easy answer as to which is the best format, the choice is often subjective and depends a lot on the intent and usage of your music library.
Keep A Lossless Copy
If you intend your music library as a replacement for the physical CDs, rip the audio into a lossless audio format. You can then keep the CDs away and never have to visit them again. But first let’s explain what is lossless format and the need for one.
