Buring CD affect Original File in iTunes?

I feel like when I make a mix cd in my itunes, when I go back and listen to the original file on my ipod or laptop the sound quality gets slightly lower. Does burning a cd in iTunes affect the original iTunes files? I don't mess around with settings or anything, so i'm not sure why the sound quality is different. For instance I'll burn "track 3" onto a cd,then when I listen to "track 3" with the rest of its parent album saved in my itunes, "track 3" has slightly slower sound quality than the rest of the album that was not burned on to the cd. Am i just imagining this, and my ears are fooling with me??
Any help would be greatly apprecited!!

Not that I've ever heard of. The burning process analyzes the file and prepares a writeable CD-formatted version to write to disk, but does not change the original.
What you might want to do as an experiment is find a file and write down some of its key audio information. E.g. right-click, Get Info, and get the volume level from the Info tab, and the EQ Preset from the Options tab. Look again after it's been burned once, and see if you detect anything different. Let us know if you discover anything.

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Is there a way to easily locate original files in iTunes after moving everything to an external harddrive?

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Hi,
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Oops sorry! It's actually rather complicated... got the steps above from number 3 wrong.
Restart >>
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3) Right-click or Ctrl-Click again on same song and select "Create AAC Version"
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01 human                                                                 (this song should have the killers name as artist and cd title, etc)
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A response on this subject from another post:
It could be that you have inadvertently imported these CDs into iTunes as part of a compilation. If so, the artists won't show in the artists menu on the iPod.
To check, highlight the tracks on one of the offending artists CDs in iTunes, right click and select "get info". This brings up a multiple song info window, and from there you can check if you have 'yes' in the box marked "part of a compilation".
If you have, select 'no' instead and click 'ok'. Do this with any CD that has this issue. This will alter the info in iTunes, and you should then connect your iPod and synchronize the changes.
The problem arises because the information contained on the Gracenote CD Data Base (where iTunes gets all it's album/artist/track info from), is sometimes incorrect. It can show CDs as compilations when in fact they are not.
ramstigo wrote:
I had an earlier post on this subject with a similar problem. I tried what you suggested and it worked indeed. You can select the artists from your Ipod on Itunes and after highlighting the artists/albums affected, click NO on the compilation box and the issue is resolved: the artists appear on the list.
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Or If there is any purchased music then you can try to transfer purchases
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1848
If you're in the US you can reload purchased music
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Hi dones49,
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To find the file, use the information in this article to navigate through the iTunes media folders -
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If you are still unable to locate the files, you may need to download them from the iTunes store again, or rip them from your CDs. See this article for assistance with downloading your past purchases -
Download past purchases
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
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DrewPowell wrote:
I Just wondered Does iTunes store the original music file and then copy it into a separate folder?
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Moved iTunes library to an ext hard drive to make space on my int drive... Followed steps from apple. Now I cannot access my music... It says: "File could not be used because the original file cannot be found. Would you like to locate it?"
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See Make a split library portable. Move all of the bits of the library together in the the correct shape and it should work. Or undo exactly what you did and then start over.
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iTunes prefs > Advanced > Reset all dialog warnings. - https://discussions.apple.com/message/23987276
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Im trying to play (or even organize) my songs in the cloud.
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Itunes 12.0.1.26
Thanks Thanks Thanks!!!

Hi,
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