http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005 by the authors Mon, 15 Sep 2003 08:35:19 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/09/13/170758.php#comment-18762 You can try this for yourself without spending money on a track. Simply rip a CD in AAC format in iTunes, then convert it your self and test the audio results. There definitely is some degradation, but you'll have to determine just how bad you think it is compared to both the AAC track and the original disc. Quality is subjective. 18762@blogcritics.org Mon, 15 Sep 2003 08:35:19 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/09/13/170758.php#comment-18711 To other readers, I'm still worrying the ACC issue. Is there any way around the inability to convert iTunes Music Store downloads to MP3 other than going hard copy to CD and then converting the copy to MP3? And, just how bad is the loss of quality? 18711@blogcritics.org Sun, 14 Sep 2003 11:31:31 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/09/13/170758.php#comment-18700 Wow, I wasn't quite sure what would happen with such a tall image. In Safari at least, it just keeps going and going and going. Unbound by the borders and the white background, it is to my right even now, and has a way to go. I suspect other browsers might force the box to contain the image. Their loss. ;-) 18700@blogcritics.org Sun, 14 Sep 2003 10:05:20 EDT