I Need Audio Advice Folks... To MP3 Or Not To MP3
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If you have the space keep the files AIFF so they care the most of the original sound. Hard drives are super cheap nowadays (just got two 160Gb for 30.00 a piece).
I am an Apple fan 100% but would not use AAC for some of the reason you described above. Using it for purchasing tunes is one thing, and can even make sense there, but converting your whole collection in a format only one company uses iis asking for trouble down the road.
We are not in the early 90's when hard drive space cost as much as gold...
Currently I have 12,890 songs in my collection- ranging from 320bit, 192, and AIFF... even if I converted all those files to AAC I might save 4GB of space... why bother.
Mp3 and RAW AIFF is the format of choice... I can play mp3's in the car, on the TV, in my DVD player, at my friends, at my mom's, on my ipod...
AAC... ipod and the 10 people I know who also use macs..