Apple Lossless gave me HUGE files

I just bought an Airport Express Base Station, so I converted my iTunes Library from .mp3 to Apple Lossless, since I understand iTunes temporarily converts each song to this format to send them to the Airport Express. The conversion process went smoothly, but at the end of it, my song file sizes have increased atleast 10x, sometimes more.
Is this normal? Is there anyway to keep the lossless format, but shrink the files? Should I just re-convert to mp3? Please help.

Completely normal. Lossless files will be much larger than MP3 or AAC, even if they're converted from compressed originals. Unless you deleted the MP3 originals, you should be able to just delete the Lossless copies. If you deleted the originals, you can convert back, but you'll lose even more quality. Convert just a few and check the quality and see what you think; it might be better to reimport your CDs.

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