[OSX-Users] Re: downgrading sound quality?

[Vladimiro Sassone]

On 18 Sep 2009, at 11:45, "Neil Broderick" <ngb at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:

> Clearly there is the time consuming solution of importing everything  
> twice which I would like to avoid. But if there is a simpler  
> solution that somebody can tell me would be great.

The short answer is: there isn't.

A more elaborate answer is that if you use ffmpeg to transcode from  
ALAC to AAC or to MP3 you'll definitely gain loads both in quality  
(wrt the crappy Apple importer) and speed (apart that ffmpeg is fast,  
you won't have to spin a cd).