Exporting to iTunes

I am currently using Garageband to rip old cassette tapes to digital media. I have tweaked all the settings on my cassette player and garageband to where the media comes out clear and without unwanted noise. However it seems whenever I "share" it to iTunes the quality when played in iTunes is not as good as when it is played in Garageband. It sounds almost distorted at times. Does anyone know why this is? Also how can I get it to export it to iTunes at 256 kbps. Under the advanced preferences it is set to 256 kbps, but when it goes into iTunes it is over 1,000 kbps for some reason and in a different format. How can I set it to be 256 kbps .mp3 format? or is that even possible? Thanks!

how can I get it to export it to iTunes at 256 kbps.
You can not. Music is exported as an uncompressed 44.1k/16-bit AIFF file. You can then convert it to whatever you want within iTunes
http://www.bulletsandbones.com/GB/Tutorials.html#allaboutsoundformats

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