To convert them you burn the tracks to an Audio CD, then re-rip them back from the CD you burned.
Yes it's lossy, but it's unavoidable.
Lossy? What do you mean?
In this process you do the following:
Decompress the protected AAC file to straight audio and burn to CD-Audio.
Read CD-Audio and compress to MP3.
The decompress stage produces sound as good as you can get from an AAC file. But then you compress it again and that is where the loss comes in. Even if you decompressed AAC to audio then back to AAC you'd lose some sound quality, the original and re-compressed files wouldn't be the same. This is always true when you decompress and re-compress. Such as editing a JPG file.
If the original AAC has sufficient quality (high enough sampling rate) it will likely be unnoticable.
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