Ripping using AIFF - can I select VBR rather than CBR?

[CheshireChap]

Hi all - please don't pile on if this has been answered elsewhere, as I've tried looking back through and nothing matches what I'm looking for - I think!

I work on a Mac, and rip at lossless AIFF. I'm not bothered about saving space so basically want the most accurate rip possible. From what I can glean on various forums, VBR presents the best possible audio quality over CBR - but I can't see any option to select VBR with ripping using AIFF. The only options I'm seeing for ripping are Bit Depth, Sample Rate and Channels, all set to rip [as source] - I can't see any other option screens, so not sure what I'm missing.

I'm on Mac, Sonoma 14.4.1, dBpoweramp version 2024.04.01

Thanks all.

[Spoon]

Re: Ripping using AIFF - can I select VBR rather than CBR?

AIFF would not have CBR or VBR for lossless it does not need them.

[CheshireChap]

Re: Ripping using AIFF - can I select VBR rather than CBR?

Morning Spoon! Thanks for coming back. So when I see CBR as the encoded Bit rate mode, I can just ignore that?

[PeterP]

Re: Ripping using AIFF - can I select VBR rather than CBR?

VBR (Variable Bit Rate) is only possible with compressed audio, where individual segments of audio data can take more or less physical space in a file, depending on their actual complexity.
AIFF format holds uncompressed audio, therefore it can't possibly be VBR - ratio of file size to stored duration (Bit Rate) cannot change in mid-file.

[Spoon]

Re: Ripping using AIFF - can I select VBR rather than CBR?

You can upload a screenshot of the encoder settings page please, upload to:

https://imgbb.com/

and paste a link please

[CheshireChap]

Re: Ripping using AIFF - can I select VBR rather than CBR?

Thanks Peter - I noticed that my FLAC files are encoded with VBR, so I wasn't sure if the same thing was possible with AIFF, but if it's a compressed audio file only setting, then I don't need to worry about it. Thanks for your help.