Lossless Ipod question

If you ripped your CD's to a lossy format like mp3 when you put the music on your iPod, a lot of the original data was discarded in order to create smaller files. You can convert those mp3 files to a lossless format but you won't recover the lost musical information, you'll just create a file that sounds the same but takes up more space.

If you want to have the same quality as the original CD you'll have to rip it again into a lossless format.

Yes, good luck.

But before you re-rip all those CD's, do just one or two of them and see if it's worth the effort to you. If you ripped them at a reasonably high bit-rate, 192 or 320, the difference you can hear in your system may not be worth all that time and energy.

If you're using the iPod as your source, the difference in quality between a high bit-rate mp3 and an Apple Lossless file may not be audible. If, on the other hand, you're using one of the computer hard-drive based possibilities to a DAC with USB input, a Squeezebox or an Airport Express connected to you main system it might be worth it to you.

Listen first, then decide.