So on the issue of quality, if I buy a 256 kbps AAC song from itunes, and then change my importing preferences to apple lossless (where it of course says the preferences dont apply to itunes store purchases), and then highlight said song in itunes and "Create Apple Lossless Version", sure enough it will give me a 700+ kbps version.
However as discussed earlier about not being able to put quality into a song, what exactly is it doing when it's converting the file to a lossless format and tripling the bitrate, since we can't add quality to a file? Is the 700+ kbps file REALLY 700 kbps, or is it actually just the same as the 256 kbps file, but just bloated?
Sorry for so many questions, trying to get this right.