doesn't iTunes lower the quality of your mp3's by re-encoding to aac?

[dpopiz]

if you try to import mp3's into the iTunes library, it makes you convert them to aac. doesn't that significantly lose a lot of detail in the music since it's using a different lossy format to re-encode an already lossy-encoded file?

 

[DT4K]

It doesn't force you to use aac.
You can pick from several formats including apple lossless and mp3(all the way up to 320kbps)

 

[dpopiz]

for importing existing mp3 files?
it always tells me I must re-encode them to add to the lib

 

[Krk3561]

I never reencoded nor was I ever promted too

 

[DT4K]

Originally posted by: dpopiz
for importing existing mp3 files?
it always tells me I must re-encode them to add to the lib

Hmmm, I'm not sure. I know you can select the encoding you want to use for imports in the preferences. But all the importing I've done has been ripping from CD. So I don't know if it forces a different format for existing mp3's.

The only reason I even know about changing the preferences is because I had put a bunch of ripped songs on my wife's mp3 player and they wouldn't play. I hadn't realized that the newer versions of itunes defaulted to aac encoding.

 

[revnja]

what the, iTunes wants you to re-encode your MP3s? I just imported 3000+ MP3s into a fresh iTunes for Windows install, and it didn't ask me, and it's never asked me. Even on the Mac, it's never asked me.

 

[0roo0roo]

never asked me. i dunno wtf u are doing wrong. part of the popularity of the ipod was its support for mp3 from the start. just drag and drop the mp3s into itunes if u don't know what youre doing.

 

[0roo0roo]

oh just opened ituines. u twit, importing is for encoding files. so yes if you choose importing then u can choose to reencode into whatever the options for importing are in preferences. adding files to library is the one you shoulda used. that and drag and drop adds ot library not import.