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Re-record iTunes protected AAC music to MP3
really? I was under the impression that with any of the sound recording programs that record what is going out like Audio Hijack and WireTap are 1:1 of the music. I thought you lose quality with the CD because you are converting it and re-encoding it many times.
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As this question seems to be the crux of the entire issue: how to make an unprotected copy of the file that has no loss of audio quality. Burning to CD, then reimporting *definitely* results in loss of quality (whether or not it's noticeable, and aside from the issue of losing all metadata).
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You would lose quality in both the cd burning case and in the ahp case. When the music is burned to CD the aac is converted to wav in the decoding process in order to be burned. The reimport is obviously then of lower quality of the original. In the AHP case, the aac is still being decoded when played through the computer, even though it's not being burned. So the aac>wav>mp3 will still result in quality loss. I don't think there is any way to avoid this in any case.
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Why is it of lower quality? If you burn a CD, then import in the same format and bit rate, the quality should be the same. The algorithm for compressing the music doesn't change...
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That's exactly the point. When the aac was first ripped at wherever Apple rips its music, it used an algorithm(codec) to compress the cd to aac. That in itself result in quality loss because the algorithm inherently removes data from the original wave. That's why an aac is much smaller than the original wave. When you burn that aac to a cd and rip it again, it loses even MORE data since youre using a similar algorithm again. The original data lost is not recoverable. Everytime you rerip you're losing more and more data. That's why people try to stay away from reencodes of files already encoded in the first place.
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This is strictly accurate, but the argument against recompression is easily overstated.
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As this question seems to be the crux of the entire issue: how to make an unprotected copy of the file that has no loss of audio quality.
JHymn will do this.
JHymn does *not* work with iTunes 6.x!
They're working on it, but saying it will take some time!! |
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