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aiff can play in any cd player? cool!

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Hello All,
I have about 1.5 gigs worth of mp3 files in iTunes and they are starting to take up to much space. I want to burn them onto cd but as AIFF files instead. Is there anyway to convert Mp3s in AIFF files? And if so what is the best way to go about doing it. Thank you in advance:)

Indy

p.s. I want them as AIFF files so I can play them in any cd player.

aiff can play in any cd player? cool! 

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First of all, when you burn AIFFs to a music CD, you aren't actually burning the AIFF files onto the CD.  You're burning the actual audio data.  However, uncompressed AIFFs (at the proper frequency and bit depth) are, I believe, bit-for-bit identical to what's being recorded onto the CD.  That's why some software requires your audio files to be in AIFF format - no conversions necessary.

However, you don't need to convert 1.5GB of mp3s into AIFFs.  For one, they'll take up probably around 15 gigs of your hard disk, depending on the bit rate of your mp3s.  Secondly, as Gandolf pointed out, iTunes will burn audio CDs that play in CD players for you by converting your mp3s "on-the-fly" -- as it's recording them to the CD-R.  Again, like Galdalf said, go to the menu iTunes > Preferences..., click the Burning icon, and choose Disc Format: Audio CD.  You may or may not want a gap between the songs, depending on your music.

Finally, just so you know, most CD players won't play AIFFs burned onto a data CD-R.

[Warning: no guarantees are made as to the validity of this information.  It's merely been gleaned from my personal experiences.]

Why don't you have them on CD to begin with? Been ripping a lot of tapes and records?

First of all, when you burn AIFFs to a music CD, you aren't actually burning the AIFF files onto the CD.  You're burning the actual audio data.  However, uncompressed AIFFs (at the proper frequency and bit depth) are, I believe, bit-for-bit identical to what's being recorded onto the CD.  That's why some software requires your audio files to be in AIFF format - no conversions necessary.

This is wrong.  Audio files on a CD are, in fact, AIFF files, but they are hidden files, the ".CDA" file you see when you look at the CD contents is just a pointer, and contains no audio data.