Aac or mp3 (any other decisions?)

I'm about half way through ripping disks that never made it into my itunes library and overwriting (I guess) aac files with mp3 files for disks that were already ripped.
My thinking is that I will now be able to burn disks and if I ever wanted to play them I could. That said, I have a cassette player in the truck and a conventional dvd player for a stereo (were the cd's are when they aren't getting ripped).
Would anyone mind telling me if there are any other decisions to make, or settings to check, when ripping disks - also is mp3 a reasonable decision for me at this point?
Thanks,
Jon

Have a look at this article, you'll get an extensive comparison of the AAC and MP3 formats and bit rates benchmarked against CD format: Planet of Sound - Quality of AAC audio and MP3

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You got the process correct, it
is just that iTunes only offers you the option to
convert to whatever your preferences are currently
set to for importing.
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to..." option which should show MP3. Once done, go
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is just that iTunes only offers you the option to
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set to for importing.
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Thank you, absolutely brilliant, I knew there had to be an easier way to do this!!! And also thank you so much for the really quick response too!
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