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Monitor iTunes format conversion progress
Authored by: Hes Nikke on May 06, '03 03:27:09PM

why would you want to convert an MP3 to an AAC?

both MP3 and AAC are lossy formats

think about it this way:

you have a raw song with A audio data
when you convert a raw song to MP3, you are throwing out audio data X, so you wind up with A-X.
when you convert a raw song to AAC, you are throwing out audio data Y, so you wind up with A-Y
when you convert an MP3 to AAC, you are throwing out Y from a song that was already A-X, so you wind up with A-X-Y, or a poorer quality song then a direct rip with either codec. ick!

if you want your music in AAC format, go to your original CD's and rip them again, iTunes is nice enough to notice that you've already got the music in your library and asks if you want to replace it. thats what i did for 4 CDs before i found out (the hard way) that you now can't even make MP3 CD's out of your AACs. (i was hoping that iTunes would create some A-X-Y MP3's for my car) there are about 800 thousand different models of MP3 CD players out there, and AFAIK 0 different models of AAC CD players.

think before you turn your library into useless garbage.

ok, i'm done with my rant for the day :)

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Monitor iTunes format conversion progress
Authored by: fixable on May 07, '03 05:03:11PM

I agree, but the Convert to AAC is still very useful. I have
noticed that on some of my CD's that are old or scratched, it is
more effective to rip them to aiff and then convert those aiff's
to AAC. These CD's; when ripping to AAC will have skips or it
will stop halfway through a song, but the aiff rips would be fine.

I would certainly advise against converting mp3's to AAC's or
vice versa.



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