Converting recorded vinyl track to AAC (.M4A)

After finally learning from these forums that AAC = .M4A I am successfully importing cd tracks in compressed format (thank you!).
However tracks I have recorded to my hard drive from vinyl using Audacity stubbornly remain in .AIFF format when imported into iTunes, squandering 90mb or so of hard drive space each time.
Is there a way to import them as AAC? How does iTunes know the track is coming from HD and not cd?
Regards, Michael

You need to add them to iTunes and then use iTunes to convert them.
You iTunes prefs -> Advanced - Importing is already set to AAC.
Select the aiff files you wish to convert then menu Advanced -> *Convert selection to AAC*.
This will make a new aac version o the song.
You can then delete the aiff file if you wish.

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