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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Once you burn these tunes to CD, you do not have a standard CD. You have one with a bunch of bits MISSING! AAC and Mp3 toss out bits from the audio. There is no way you can ever get them back. I won't ever pay for music where the company selling it decides to cheat me of the full set of bits that is on the CD. Then ripping this abomination CD and converting it to Apple Lossless is then another silly idea because it's not lossless. No music that isn't truly lossless should be converted to any lossless format.
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Depends what you want to do with it.
I personally encode my CDs as 320 kbit MP3s because at that bit rate, and at my age, even on my extremely good HiFi system I can hear no difference between the MP3 and the original; as you get older, your ability to hear high frequencies significantly deteriorates and it's the high frequencies that MP3 encoding predominantly discards.
Absolutely no "harm" in subsequently burning CDs from that if you want to listen to the music in a "non HiFi" environment, such as in the car.