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Even an optical drive that reads discs at 40x normal playback speed is going to be rather slow compared to a USB 3.0 port. The drive mechanism – not USB 3 or SATA 3 – is going to be the bottleneck.

The people who designed CD-Audio assumed that it was OK for there to be some non-correctable errors. The human ear and brain are not very good at picking up errors – if they were, then nobody would use MP3, AAC, or ATRAC, as those lossy formats introduce a continuous stream of errors into the...

I don't believe that Gracenote / CDDB / etc. have anything to do with actual audio extraction – just with matching of a set of songs to the corresponding album and song names. I let iTunes retrieve names from the Internet – but I also give the information a quick once-over. I don't believe it...

The way I heard it, it's not done for "artistic" reasons, but so that the recording will appear to be "louder" than others – or at least, as loud as other recordings butchered in similar fashion. That is, often it's not an artistic choice, or an incompetent engineering one. It's an intentional...

(44,100 samples per channel per second) * (16 bits per sample) * (2 channels) = approximately 1,411 Kbps. A high-quality MP3 or AAC file has a bit rate of 256 – 320 Kbps. When storage was more expensive, people used 128 Kbps or less, but the sound quality of 128 Kbps files was marginal, and...

"Only files that are not protected by copyright can be played on this unit." A classic error if there ever was one. They are confusing copyright protection with DRM. The former is a legal concept. The device has no way to tell if you are infringing and no business assuming that you are. The...

The above page indicates that it will only recognize MP3 files, WMA files, or AAC files, with the footnote that the AAC files must have been been recorded by iTunes. My conclusions are that: 1. Your car stereo does NOT play uncompressed .WAV or .AIFF files. It only plays compressed files. 2...

iTunes is probably the gold standard, or close to it, for the organization – but it may not be the gold standard for extracting bit-perfect audio from the CDs themselves. In another forum, there was someone claiming that iTunes often did not extract audio in bit-perfect ways - and that it was...

This is why it is better to use a database-oriented program like iTunes/Music, than to directly manage music files using the Macintosh Finder, or Windows Explorer. A database-oriented program should make it easy to view music in several ways: by artist, by album, by song, by user-created...

I also use iTunes. In recent versions of macOS, Apple has done away with the monolithic version of iTunes, and split its functions among several applications. So music functions are now in the Music application, and in the Finder (syncing).