Audiophile FAQ 

1. What is metadata?

Metadata is the information in each audio file detailing the song name, album name, artist, genre, album art, etc. The RipFactory has partnered with All Music Guide (AMG) and Get Digital Data (GD3) to provide you with high class data and cover artwork. Typically, we will find 98% of album art, all of which is provided free as part of our service. 

2. How will my Digital Music Library be organised?

Aye-Tunes organises your Digital Music Library by artist / album. This information is included in the ID3 tags (MetaData) within every file.

3. What is the file name structure?

X:\Artist\Album\01_Trackname.

4. Is the music Aye-Tunes returns to me CD quality?

This is dependant on your chosen format(s).

Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC) is a file format for digital audio. Being a lossless compression format, FLAC does not remove information from the audio stream, like lossy compression formats such as MP3, AAC, and Vorbis do.

For your portable music player, we recommend MP3.  The reason for this is the wide variety of existing software and hardware that takes advantage of this file format.
It is a compressed format resulting in a reduction in the audio quality, however, for most people this is acceptable when being used as portable audio.

5. What audio file formats does Aye-Tunes offer?

MP3, WMA, AAC, FLAC, WAV.

6. What about Copy protected CD’s and / or homemade CD’s?

Such CD's will not be converted, as this is breach of copyright restrictions.  As the customer you will be charged for these discs and notified of this at the time of your order completion. So, please do not send them to us.

7. What fields (Metadata) do you fill in to the track header?

We fill in all available fields including Track, Artist, Album, Genre, Album Art and year of release.

8. What is 'Bit Rate'?

Bit rate is the number of data bits recorded, per second, in a digital audio recording.  The higher the bit rate, the better (higher fidelity) the recording, the higher the bit rate the larger the digital music file. Most MP3s for MP3 players are encoded at a bit rate of 128 kbps (kilobits per second) to 320 kbps.  Higher quality stereos with large hard drives generally are encoded at 320 kbps. Many high end media systems will accept one of our lossless codecs e.g. FLAC.

9. What bit rates do you offer?

Our default codec and bit rate for mp3`s is 320 kbps, nowadays most systems are well capable of handling the extra capacity for the resultant increase in quality.

10. I know my audio formats, can I select my options?

Of course. You can select from FLAC, WAV, MP3, AAC and Windows Media. If you are unsure, please call us on 0141 404 6272 or e-mail This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .