When converting higher bitrate songs to 128 does it alter the music library on the pc?

I have an iPhone 5S 64 GB and an iPod Nano 6th generation 16 GB that I sync to a windows based PC. I have 15.28 GB of music on my PC. It fits nicely as is and at the higher bitrate. I would love to put all that music on my iPod. I am curious if I convert the higher bitrate to say 128, does this affect the music on my PC and on my iPhone or does it just convert the music and put it on my iPod?

The music on the PC and iPhone won't be affected.
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