Maintaining highest quality possible during importing

when I import 320 kbps music into ITunes, the songs are ending up as everything else but...and I am losing quality...I am most interested in maintaining the highest quality playback...can you assist?

Ahhhhh!!! I see the problem now. You are NOT importing music. Instead you are ADDing it. There is a big difference.
"Importing" is when you read music off an audio CD and convert it to whatever import preference you set (e.g. MP3, AAC, etc). Or it is when you pick a track in your library, right click, and pick the Convert To... function which will make a new copy in whatever format you have set for your import preference.
But when you take music already on a hard drive and drag and drop it onto your iTunes library, there is no conversion done at all and you are simply doing an ADD to library where the file, as is, it used by iTunes. So if you take a 128kbps MP3, drag & drop it onto your library, it gets added just as it is, a 128kbps file.
If you really wanted to, you could right click on those lower bit rate files and do the Convert To... to create the higher 320 kbps files you have the import preference set for, but there is really no point since you will gain nothing in the conversion (the quality loss has already happened and you can not put it back) and may even make the quality slightly worse with another conversion.
Patrick

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MASTER FILE / FOR YOUR BLU RAY PLAYER / ARCHIVAL
1) use the Bluray H.264 preset to get a Bluray master. Best quality, takes a while to encode though.
Unless it's a five hour movie I'm pretty sure it'll fit on a BD disc.
GENERAL RULE OF THUMB FOR ARCHIVAL AND MASTER FILES: try to match the final product with your source file.
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Choose 2 Pass Variable Bitrate for best quality/size ratio.
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Lost me here? Then just forget Flash for now.
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Quicktime is good for archiving too but takes a long time to encode on PCs. Not worth it for web delivery anymore... although there will be Mac fanatics disagreeing with me right now.
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Bill,
Is probably right , as he is most times when he is drinking Aussie wine.
I only have PE 4 and when you bring the H.264 mov in there you get a red line, you are better off rendering the working area as it will run smoother.
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Scott Magri wrote:
Does the iTUNES IMPORTING preferences matter? I am exporting UNcompressed so I can give songs to a Master Engineer. What should my itune settings be at?
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Is that about a minute of video?
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One of the reasons for converting with QT is to make smaller, more manageable files which play with virtually the same quality as a huge one.
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http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;ylt=AooGuxvheq40oC0etoPY8yvty6IX;ylv=3?qid=20090909143724AALIlSP
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The answer is no, but I suggest you have a read of some of the excellent articles out there about this to understand whats going on, and how to choose settings on import, and when sharing.
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