There's no loss of quality going from ALAC to FLAC, but how confident
are you with the quality of the rip itself? That is, iTunes does not
use AccurateRip or do any form of secure ripping. So the possibility of
errors getting into the rip is real. If any of your CDs, or even your CD
drive, had problems then the ALAC files will have errors, and the
conversion to FLAC will only reproduce those errors.

So if you want to be 100% sure of quality, re-rip with dBpoweramp or
EAC. That would apply not only to your ALAC tracks, but to anything
ripped with iTunes. That's probably a big time investment, and only you
can decide if it's worth your time to get that extra level of certainty.


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