[DM-MUG] importing CDs using AAC or AppleLossless?

[Jon Thompson]

Oops, my bad.  I misread and thought you were ripping from a regular  
CD, not MP3 CD.  If it is MP3, keep it that way.  iTunes and iPods  
will play MP3 just fine, and no matter what you do, you will lose  
some quality, as transcoding between lossy codecs is a bad idea.   
Lossless won't get back the information that was lost when encoded to  
MP3, and will just bloat the filesize.

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On 2006, Aug 24, at 5:51 PM, Bill Davis wrote:

> If you mean the CDs are MP3 CDs, then just drag the MP3 files on  
> the CD *into* iTunes.  No ripping required.   Converting to AAC  
> would just lose you quality, so don't do that.   Using Apple  
> Lossless is meaningless on an MP3 CD, since they are not CD-quality  
> tunes...in fact, I doubt you'd even have that as an option.
>
>
> Choosing MP3/AAC/Apple Lossless only makes sense on a normal CD,  
> not a MP3 CD (which is just a data CD with MP3 files on it.)
>
>   - Bill
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Victoria L. Herring" <vlh at herringlaw.com>
> To: MUG Des Moines <dmmug at dmmug.org>
> Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 17:02:58 -0500
> Subject: [DM-MUG] importing CDs using AAC or AppleLossless?
>
> I just returned from outside the country with CDs with music and can
> import them to iTunes but I think they're all recorded or some of
> them in MP3 format...do I want to import using AAC or AppleLossless
> == I'd only be playing them on iTunes or iPod or burning a CD and
> space is not an issue, fortunately.
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