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iTunes4 and re-ripping to AAC
Authored by: feste on May 05, '03 12:41:02PM

He's not talking about turning MP3s into M4Ps. He's talking
about turing AIFFs (from the original CD) into M4As (which have
no playing restrictions, and are at least equal quality to MP3s at
the listed bit rates).



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iTunes4 and re-ripping to AAC
Authored by: Oddjob3x on May 05, '03 02:33:39PM

I haven't been able to hear any difference (using headphones) between my
MP3s encoded at 192kbps and the reripped AAC versions at 128kbps -
extremely unlikely to hear any difference on my iPod in the car!

And, reripping each song saves me about 2MB per song ... on a 16GB library
(over 2700 songs), I'm hoping to save a few GBs. As Anon says, just whack
the CD in and it'll replace your existing MP3s with AACs. To keep track of
which albums I've done, I've been dragging in the cover art from
www.allmusic.com (wonder if future iPod software will show the cover art ... ?)



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iTunes4 and re-ripping to AAC
Authored by: drolph on May 06, '03 12:06:44AM

All the songs available from the Apple Music Store appear to be
encoded at 128kbps. Since I'll be buying most of my music
from there from now on, I mught as well re-encode all me CD's
at the same bit-rate.



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