Hi Walter,
No, it won't ....
Converting a compressed file such as MP3 to an AIFF (which is original
full quality,Uncompressed same as on a CD) won't work.
AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) provides audio encoding that compresses
much more efficiently than older formats, such as MP3, yet delivers
quality rivalling that of uncompressed CD audio.
Because MP3s are created with lossy compression, the information they
contain about the music is not a perfect copy of the original. So you
would be working from an imperfect source. Even if the format you were
converting to allowed better audio quality than MP3, your converted
files would not be able to make use of this extra quality, because you
would be working from an MP3 file.
Conversion and compression can only ever make quality stay the same or
get worse; they can never make quality improve.
I always import my music into iTunes as AIFF (full quality) and then
convert to MP3 if I want to burn a MP3 CD.
Cheers,
Ronni
On 16/03/2008, at 8:20 PM, F.W. Hänel wrote:
Thanks Ronni,
I have done that and tried to convert one song (in this case to Aiff
just as a test)
but that song under "Get Info" "Summary" shows up as MPEG audio
file. Should it not change to Aiff ?
Confused, Walter
On 16/03/2008, at 4:35 PM, Ronda Brown wrote:
On 16/03/2008, at 3:54 PM, F.W. Hänel wrote:
Hi Group,
what is the secret converting a song in an iTunes playlist from
MPEG Audio File to
AAC ?
When I start the "Convert selection to AAC" process in the
Advanced pull-down menu
some conversion seems to take place and an audio alert tells me
the conversion was
done - but when I look up the details on that song in the summary
it still shows
under "Kind": MPEG audio file and not AAC.
So was the conversion done or not ? Why does it not change to AAC ?
Hi Walter,
I would not recommend converting from MP3 to AAC as you will simply
lose quality.
Converting will not improve the quality from what you start with.
1. In iTunes > Preferences
2.Click the Advanced button, then click the Importing button at the
top of the window.
3. From the Import Using pop-up menu, choose the encoding format
that you want to convert the song to, then click OK to save the
settings.
4.Select one or more songs in your library, then from the Advanced
menu, choose Convert Selection to AAC (The menu item changes to
show what's selected in your Importing preferences)
Cheers,
Ronni
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