Lossless Ipod question

I am 100% sure you have to re-rip them after you have made the proper changes to your Itunes preferences. Go to Edit-Preferences-Advanced-Importing change to import using Apple Lossless encoder.

No, you can change them----you do not have to re---rip

You have to re-rip if you want the music to be in a lossless format. It is possible to go from lossless to AAC format, but not vice-versa. Sorry.

- Doc

If you ripped your CD's to a lossy format like mp3 when you put the music on your iPod, a lot of the original data was discarded in order to create smaller files. You can convert those mp3 files to a lossless format but you won't recover the lost musical information, you'll just create a file that sounds the same but takes up more space.

If you want to have the same quality as the original CD you'll have to rip it again into a lossless format.

you can convert AAC into Apple Lossless... I just did it. It may depend upon your version of iTunes though.

I had some older files that had been ripped to AAC at 320K as I was seeking a good enough format to rip everything into... Lost the CD but found the older files on an unused hard disc.. Violin! They converted just fine!

The posted bit about loss is true enough though, Re-ripped - converted files, from lossey to lossless is going to be almost entirely unoticable from the lossey (smaller) format.

Re-rip from the orig CD... and use the "error checking" feature as well. There is indeed improvement to the audio going that way... Error checking + lossless = Better!

The above applies only to those CD's that you rip this way... downloaded 128/256 K etc., AAC can't be improved, just fresh rips direct to a lossless codec.
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