Using iTunes 10: Converion from MP3 to AAC

I'm working in a named playlist of many MP3s that I would like to convert to AAC. The problem is when I
convert these files they do not return to this playlist but show up in the Library.
My question is: When converting these files, it does not give me an option to convert to the same playlist.
Is there a way that this can be done so my new files that were convert show up in the same playlist.
Are must I lookup each individual file in the library which can take several minutes of extra time.
Thanks

Open the playlist. Select the files. Convert to AAC. Now go to the main Music list and click on the 'Date Added' column to bring them all to the top of the list (if you don't have this column add it in menu View>View Options).
Now you can delete the originals from the playlist and drag all the conversions to it, or open a new playlist and drag them to that, as desired.
Do you have a good reason for converting them? Experiments carried out by the BBC suggested that while opening and recompressing a file in the same format did little damage (as the bits that needed removing had already been removed), recompressing files in a different compressed format was liable to dregrade the quality as it applied a different compression process to an already compressed file, thus removing more data than it the file had been compressed from an uncompressed format.

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