Import and Rip to itunes

I have about 500 gigs of apple loseless music files on an external HD. I want to rip them to AAC and import them into my new Macbook pro. IS there an easier way than copying a bunch of songs over, then ripping them to AAC, then deleting the originals?

"Rip" refers to extracting music from a CD, but I gather that what you mean is to convert Apple Lossless to AAC?
You can use iTunes to do the conversion, by adding them to your iTunes library (which does not require copying them over). Then highlight them in batches and use the command Advanced > Create AAC Version.
You can also use a 3rd party conversion program that can handle ALAC, of which the only one I know is dbPoweramp.
Either way, note that all conversion programs operate serially, so converting 500 Gigs will take you a while.

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