Is Itunes OK to rip CD's to AIFF?

AIFF is an industry standard.

I would recommend XLD for ripping as it can use the AccurateRip database to ensure you have a good rip.

No blind tests, but I have a lot of feedback from customers that iTunes rips are not as good as a ripper that uses Accurate-Rip, such as XLD. I have heard it myself too.

Accurate-Rip uses the FREEDB database of rips that also includes accurate offset info for each track.

Try XLD:

http://tmkk.pv.land.to/xld/index_e.html

I would highly recommend using ripper with Accurate-Rip and C2 correction, XLD or Maxx for Mac and dbpoweramp for windows. The CDROM drive should have C2 error correction capability. If you dont, you will end-up re-ripping everything when you realize how bad the SQ is with iTunes.

Steve N.
Empirical Audio

Thanks for all the help. How do you tell if a CDROM drive error correction capability. And would this apply if I'm using a PC? For CDROM I'm mostly using a SONY DRX-810UL. I went to the dBpoweramp page and saw support for Apple lossless but no support for AIFF which I prefer. Anyone know if dBpoweramp has some hidden (at least to me) ability to generate AIFF?

If you set error correction on with iTunes how could you get anything other than a perfect rip?

One other question: Does Pure Music handle ripping, too? IOW if you have it installed and rip through iTunes is PM software doing the ripping?