![]() On the other hand, WAVs and AIFFs offer the best sound quality possible, as they’ve not been compressed at all. More importantly, to most people, they sound indistinguishable to lossless, as long as they’re good quality (320kbps MP3s, or the Apple equivalent to that, 256kbps AACs). If your file is 320kbps MP3 or 256kbps AAC, you’re probably fine to play it, but always trust your ears. A lot of DJs choose MP3 format because it’s cheaper and takes up less space. They tend to be cheaper to buy than WAVs (as they’re smaller, so they take up less server space/delivery bandwidth on online stores), and are more universal – the MP3 is still “the” music format. They can hold extra information too, such as artwork, and track metadata (WAVs can’t, but AIFFs can, for the record). Lossy files are small, so they’re easier and quicker to send, receive, duplicate, transfer and so on. Advantages and disadvantages of the formats On the other hand, lossless – of which the classic format is WAV (although Apple has a version too, the AIFF) are much bigger files, and that’s because there has been no attempt to make them smaller – they are the original recording, just digitised. The idea is that what’s been removed doesn’t really matter (it’s frequencies that in practise you can’t hear). This type of file is called lossy because some of the audio information has been removed, to make it a lot smaller than it would otherwise be. The MP3 is a classic “lossy” format (you can count Apple’s version, the AAC, in with this too). Prefer me to talk you through this? In this video, a recording of a live show from the Digital DJ Tips YouTube channel, I talk you through everything in this article, and we take questions from our community too on the subject. With the big streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music now all adding lossless options to their offerings, the debate between whether DJs (who generally, of course, still download their music) should also still be DJing with good old MP3s or whether it is not time to move to lossless formats as well has reared its head again.Īfter all, if the general public now has the option of “lossless” audio, shouldn’t DJs be playing with lossless audio too? In short, is the lossy old MP3’s number up? Let’s look closer…
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