“Also, if I happen to make a re-edit from the iTunes downloaded song (such as recommended in the Digital DJ Tips Make Your Own DJ Edits online course), would the results still be good enough to use in a large venue? While I am not at that stage (yet!), I’d like to be prepared and plan ahead on having a set system both for listening, purchasing, editing and playing. I know that on headphones or small stereo system it would be hard to distinguish the two (I think there was even a study a few years back by some of you guys?) but have any of you played large venues, hell even a festival, using iTunes downloads that were at 256k AAC? Was it fine or was there a difference? Armin Van Buuren has stated before that as far as he’s concerned, 192kbps MP3s are good enough to DJ with, but there’s a wide debate about whether DJs should use MP3s or AACs at all, as we discuss in today’s question.ĭigital DJ Tips member, GJ Fukit (“GJ” stands for “guitar DJ”, by the way), writes: “From research, it looks like Apple iTunes downloads are at 256k AAC (which is supposed to be comparable to 320 MP3) but some swear by lossless WAV files.

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