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umbilical

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hi, I rip all my albums to apple lossless but I have a cd of a local band that I know that source of the cd is not a CDDA (wav) is a lossy mp3... but I dont know which birate rate... so I go to import to AAC at 320kbps... with VBR whats the best quality settings of AAC (SEE THE SCREENSHOT is Correct????)
 

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Re-encoding as MP3 will futher degrade the sound. Your best bet would be to import the tracks as apple lossless and make a note in the comments that they are MP3 sourced.
 
Re-encoding as MP3 will futher degrade the sound. Your best bet would be to import the tracks as apple lossless and make a note in the comments that they are MP3 sourced.

mmm good point, to apple lossless and put in comments that is a mp3 source with an unknow birate rate... thanks Jolly
 
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