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    DJ Vintage
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    There is, as far as I know, no real alternative for Platinum Notes. One of the things it does is normalize the gain of your tracks. For that you can use the free MP3Gain alternative.

    #2081741
    Terry_42
    Keymaster

    I have yet to see anything that works remotely as good as Platinum nodes and as King of the nerd DJs I have tried everything I can get my hands on.

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    ok… guess i’ll just have to spend the coin then 😀

    on a different question, is there a difference in sound of WAV vs AIFF?
    I’m going to start buying the lossless versions of tracks and would like to know which i should go for since WAV and AIFF are the same price.

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    Terry_42
    Keymaster

    The audio track is the same in WAV and AIFF, so no there is no difference. The only difference is the “container” that holds the metadata (song, track name,…) that has slight differences, but all you need is there.

    The main difference:
    WAV -> invented by Microsoft to compete against AIFF as they saw it makes sense to have something lossless.
    AIFF -> was there first, Invented by Apple in 1988 and the mother of lossless file formats

    AIFF has a slight better play latency on older Macs, as playing AIFF files is hardcoded into the operating system (CoreAudio). With every Mac since 2005 the problem no longer exists as also WAV has been integrated into CoreAudio.

    WAV has advantages on Windows XP Systems, as AIFF was deliberately hindered by Microsoft and could not be played by the Windows Audio Service. With Windows 7 and up you should have no problems.

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