What Type of Compression to Use to Rip Your Audio Music
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Introduction
Whether you are ripping your Audio CDs for personal usage or converting the music files stored on your PC, there's always a question of which format / compression to use for the output audio. There is no definite answer to this, as the choice will depend on your personal preferences as well as how you intend to use the output files. SoundTaxi includes the most popular conversion profiles as well as additional settings which will help you get the job done for any use case.
SoundTaxi is a really powerful conversion tool which will handle any input audio format that you can play on your PC - .AAC / M4A, .MP3, .WMA, .WAV, .OGG, .FLAC and will convert it to MP3 or AAC / M4A of various compression quality.
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Select the needed output audio format
Open SoundTaxi settings and select the format in which you would like to save the audio from your source video file in the "Encoder for video files" sub-section. You can select "MP3 - MPEG Layer-3 Audio" for best compatibility with any device and also, great compression, which results in small output file while retaining original quality. Alternatively, you can select "AAC MPEG4 Audio", which may be better suited for Apple devices, like iPods, iPhones, iPads and also for importing into iTunes library.
You can additionally adjust "Compression Quality" based on your needs for sounds quality / output size.
Locate and transfer the output audio files
After you finish converting videos to the output format we specified in the previous section, the audio will be split off from the video and stored in the SoundTaxi output folder. You can right click the file in SoundTaxi and select "Locate converted file" to find it in Windows Explorer.
From there, you can listen to the audio files on your PC or transfer them to one of your devices.
