[X4U] Rip It Up - iTunes Import Settings Survey

[Kirk McElhearn]

On May 13, 2005, at 9:15 AM, eleventhvolume wrote:

> I'm running out of space with my iTunes library encoded at 192mp3  
> and have
> been thinking about converting to 160AAC which appears to be  
> comparable
> sound quality and I'd save something like 20% on file size. I've tried
> choosing Advanced > Convert Selection to AAC for a selected album,  
> but that
> places the converted tracks alongside the originals in the original  
> folder.
> Deleting the 5200+ songs in my library by selecting out the mp3s  
> and then
> reimporting the AACs manually appears to be a very time consuming  
> prospect.
> Is there an easier way of undertaking such a process? Thanks for  
> any advice
> offered.

I wouldn't recommend converting files in that way. They've already  
been compressed, and decompressing then recompressing them (which is  
what the conversion does), will result in artifacts; the music will  
probably sound worse.


Kirk

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