Format for importing

When importing I am importing as AAC format - if I imporsted as MP3 woulf they take up less space, thus allowing me to have more songs on my nano?

AAC is the audio component of MPEG-4. When you use iTunes to rip a CD in AAC format the extender for the files will be .mp4. Songs from ITMS are AAC files wrapped in FairPlay DRM.
But to return to what I was saying, and you are more than welcome to test it by ripping a CD using AAC format and then trying to use those songs to save an MP3 CD. You will discover that the AAC songs will not be included in the CD because they are not MP3 files and that is exactly what the error message says.

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