How to convert iPhone songs to high 320 bit rate?

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Jason black

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Is there a program I can use to convert me songs to a higher bit rate? Does anyone know if songs bought from iTunes have high bit rate? I don't really care about space because I have a 64 gig iPhone 4S.
 
Songs from iTunes are 256.

Converting them to a higher bit-rate is pointless. The best you'll ever get is "it's the same." You're just wasting space.

If iTunes isn't good enough, the best you can generally do is to buy CDs and rip them using the 'Apple Lossless' codec in iTunes. But that's about it. There's no point in converting anything you've downloaded online...it will always be as good as it's going to get when you download it.
 
Small White Car said:
Songs from iTunes are 256.

Converting them to a higher bit-rate is pointless. The best you'll ever get is "it's the same." You're just wasting space.

If iTunes isn't good enough, the best you can generally do is to buy CDs and rip them using the 'Apple Lossless' codec in iTunes. But that's about it. There's no point in converting anything you've downloaded online...it will always be as good as it's going to get when you download it.
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Well iTunes converts the song to 128 bit rate, it obviously diminishes the quality of the song, right?
 
You can lower the bitrate but going up will gain you nothing except bloat. A 256kbps AAC is going to be fine for all but audiophiles and their moon-rock needles.
 
Transferring downloaded mp3 and ripping CDs. I know that when I purchase and download off iTunes, the mp3 remains the same.
 
Jason black said:
Transferring downloaded mp3 and ripping CDs. I know that when I purchase and download off iTunes, the mp3 remains the same.
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So for ripping CDs, use iTunes and rip them as either "Apple Lossless" or "iTunes Plus AACs." (Your choice. Do a test and see if you can tell the difference or not.)

For everything else, just leave them alone and use them as they are.
 
I buy CDs and use iTunes to rip them into Apple Lossless format as my master copy. That way I can rip them to lower quality if needed.
 
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