What is the best import settings to use?

I want the best quilty for listing and reburning CD's

For quality the best setting is AIFF, which is the format that your CDs are already in. However AIFF files are large and will take up a lot of hard drive space. MP3s imported at iTunes higher quality 192kbps setting are a good compromise between quality and size and can be burnt to MP3 CD. However you need to check that your CD player is MP3 compatible, most newer ones are.

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