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Author Topic: Viewing/sorting lossy vs lossless Apple files ? [solved]  (Read 730 times)

kstuart

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Viewing/sorting lossy vs lossless Apple files ? [solved]
« on: March 24, 2013, 07:23:29 pm »
Is there any way that a MC18 View can distinguish between lossy .m4a files (AAC) and lossless .m4a files (ALAC)?

I have previously been using File Type rules for views that exclude lossy files, but I have been running into a problem with .m4a including both lossy and lossless...
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Re: Viewing/sorting lossy vs lossless Apple files ?
« Reply #1 on: March 24, 2013, 09:52:15 pm »
Does the 'Compression' field contain anything useful?
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Re: Viewing/sorting lossy vs lossless Apple files ?
« Reply #2 on: March 24, 2013, 11:24:21 pm »
Yes indeed !

Lossy say "MP4 AAC" and Lossless say "ALAC", so that works, thanks.
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