AAC TO MP3 with no loss

I'm a DJ with 70,000+ iTunes Library and I know AAC
files are a better sounding file than MP3. However,
the DJ Program I want to use, Serato ScratchLive
doesn't support AAC files at this time. Does anyone
have a suggestion or program that could CONVERT my
files to MP3 with NO LOSS until Serato catches up???
Also. my files are encoded at 160 kbps AAC. What
would be the closest equal quality in MP3.
Thanks for any help....Jeff.
Jeff, I've recently had to deal with a similar issue & I haven't found a straightforward solution. I ended up re-encoding my CD's to mp3. I'd hate to have to do that with the quantity you have.
I couldn't do that with the m4p files I bought fron iTunes. The DRM was a pain, so I burned those to CD & imported them as m4a lossless. I discovered the hard way that I have to play them straight with no pitch adjustment or they crash my program (I use Megaseg) When I get time I'm going to redo them as 320 mp3. I now avoid AAC files.
Good luck
Bob

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I sent a friend of mine a song in the AAC format; I had thought that format was universally acceptable. Unfortunately, my friend said that she couldn't open the file. I then thought of converting the file to the MP3 format, because I know she can read that. This gets to my question: How do you do it? When I highlighted the song and clicked on Advanced, the only option was to convert to AAC. That's when I decided to come here. Is there a way to convert AAC to MP3 with iTunes? Also, how widespread is the acceptance of AAC?
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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.
So go to preferences, importing, set it to MP3. then
go to your song and you can now use the "Convert
to..." option which should show MP3. Once done, go
back to preferences and switch back to AAC if that is
what you normally want to use.
Patrick
That was fast. Anyway, it worked. Thanks for your help. Now, all I have to do is to work-out what combination of factors I should use to obtain the smallest possible MP3 file while maintaining decent quality. It's an individual decision. What would be okay for me, might be intolerable to others, but I want to keep all sound files less than 1 MB. Make that, "all sound files that I send". I hope that doesn't mean that I will have to keep duplicate files. We'll just have to see. Anyway, thanks again.
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Published with audio files, AAC Okay, MP3 'No Go'

Hello all.
I've put a couple of music, excerpts on my iWeb website; I discovered something after I published, one audio file is AAC and it loads properly on Safari on all my 3 macs (iMac at home, Office G5 via office intranet and MacBook in office with cable modem), but the audio file with MP3 has just the 'QuickTime' logo on it, you can't even play the music.
Which is "funny" because I thought with Safari and QuickTime, should be able to play all formats of music? At least AAC and MP3? The music files are all encoded or re-encoded respectively via iTunes.
I decided to use MP3 instead is I am afraid some browsers or computers (older maybe?) will not be able to play AAC files?
Thanks and cheers

iWeb writes page code to use the QuickTime browser plug-in so it wouldn't matter what audio format was used (as long as QuickTime supports it).
The trouble is a "Fast Start" problem with your .mp3 files.
Most exports from iTunes uses the newer .m4v or .m4a file extension and they should fast start (play as the file continues to download). You should consider exporting your .mp3 files to AAC (using the same settings currently used in them).
Your page visitors would need to have QuickTime installed no matter what format you used so trying to "help" them by using .mp3 files is lost in the iWeb page coding.
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AAC or MP3??

Hey!
I recently converted all the songs in my library using the 'Convert Selection to MP3' option in iTunes. I was just wondering whether AAC audio is better as i think it uses less space? Am I right? If so, how do you caonvert the files back to AAC?
Thanks

AAC will produce slightly smaller files at the same bit rate but MP3 is a more compatible format if you want to use the files on other devices or make MP3 CDs for an in-car player. Also converting again from one lossy format to another will affect the sound quality. it's always preferable to re-rip from the original uncompressed format rather than converting from one lossy format to another.
You could also make two copies in MP3 and AAC of something you are familiar with and have a listen for yourself. People will have different preferences so it's always best to go by your ears: How to convert a song to a different format
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Record Store Review - Quality of AAC v MP3 Part 1
Record Store Review - Quality of AAC v MP3 Part 2

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

CONVERT from iTunes to other FORMATS (AAC, AIFF, MP3, WAV)

Came across a problem in trying to get music purchased from iTunes to be recognized by other media players (Quicktime or Final Cut Express). I found how to get iTunes to export to cd/dvd disks in AIFF format (and other formats).
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Have you tried other formats, besides AIFF?
You can only burn purchased music to an
b Audio CD
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M

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So I have a dilemma.
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My Rio Karma won't play AAC files.
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My iTunes has been copying all the files I add to the library and converting them into AAC.
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I've been hearing rumors that mp3 ***** vs. both AAC and wma.
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Why won't my playlists convert from aac to mp3

Hi,
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However, I then tried to do the same for my playlists, but it just doesn't work for those using the "Convert to MP3 format" facility - even though it doers actually give the impression of doing so. i.e. It appears to be converting the songs and I even get a confimation tone when it's suppossedly finished converting the playlist, but the playlist still shows it's "Kind" as AAC, and hasn't converted it at all!
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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!
It took me less than a minute to do this for the first playlist and I'll now easily be able to do the same for all the other playlists - saving me potentially hours if I'd had to do it using the other way.
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How do i convert a voice memo into MP3 with itunes 12?

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