[iTunes] Re: Best way to re-capture into AAC?

[Thubten Kunga]

I ripped an AAC set Monday night from a 192 kbps MP3 set and it sounds 
identical to the source to my ears. Must admit it's pretty clean. I 
imagine the AIFF files sound good too.

k

On Monday, April 28, 2003, at 06:13  PM, Chris Reinhart wrote:

>> I don't know if this has been covered yet in this thread, but you 
>> absolutely cannot "recapture" mp3 files at a higher fidelity then 
>> what was used to rip the songs in the first place without going back 
>> to the original source (CDs) and recapturing the songs at a higher 
>> sampling rate.
>
> True,
> But Does converting mp3 files to AAC files result in double encoding?  
> Do you wind up with a worse sounding file then you started with (mp3) > ?