<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">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.<DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>-- </DIV><DIV>Jon Thompson</DIV><DIV><A href="mailto:jthompson@greatapetrust.org">jthompson@greatapetrust.org</A></DIV><DIV>515.360.1351</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Insights through collaborations with apes</DIV><DIV>Great Ape Trust of Iowa</DIV><DIV>www.greatapetrust.org</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On 2006, Aug 24, at 5:51 PM, Bill Davis wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><FONT style="font-family: tahoma; font-size: 10pt;"><P style="font-family: tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">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.<BR> </P><DIV> </DIV><DIV>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.)<BR> </DIV></FONT> - Bill<BR><BLOCKQUOTE style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 0px;"> -----Original Message-----<BR> From: "Victoria L. Herring" <<A href="mailto:vlh@herringlaw.com">vlh@herringlaw.com</A>><BR> To: MUG Des Moines <<A href="mailto:dmmug@dmmug.org">dmmug@dmmug.org</A>><BR> Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 17:02:58 -0500<BR> Subject: [DM-MUG] importing CDs using AAC or AppleLossless?<BR> <BR> <DIV style="font-family: monospace,courier new,courier;"> I just returned from outside the country with CDs with music and can <BR> import them to iTunes but I think they're all recorded or some of <BR> them in MP3 format...do I want to import using AAC or AppleLossless <BR> == I'd only be playing them on iTunes or iPod or burning a CD and <BR> space is not an issue, fortunately.<BR> -- <BR> Victoria L. 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