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Lossless Ipod question

Hello all,
I have a questions about the lossless downloading to a ipod. I have allready loaded my ipod with music and I wanted to know is there a way I can change all of them to the lossless form?? or do I have to re-rip all of my cds using the lossless? please let me know
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mmike84
309 posts
 
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.
itsalldark
182 posts
 
No, you can change them----you do not have to re---rip
doc_stereo
31 posts
 
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.

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sfar
1,768 posts
 
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.
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