I don't know if anyone has said this, but the process of converting an already-compressed song back to uncompressed (on a CD) and then ripping (re-compressing) the song would lead the a considerable amount of loss of fidelity. Now, different people have different thresholds of tolerance for loss of fidelity. My brother can't hear it at all. It drives me crazy, though, and even 256kbps MP3 encoding with a good quality encoder sounds rather thin to me. Decoding and re-encoding would be dreadful, although I suppose you could mitigate this somewhat by encoding at a very high bit rate.
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