# AAC or MP3?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/aac-or-mp3/162780>\
**Category:** random\
**Created:** [September 16, 2005, 4:52am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/aac-or-mp3/162780 "2005-09-16T04:52:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![MTsoul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/91b2a8/32.png) [@MTsoul](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/MTsoul)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2005, 4:52am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/aac-or-mp3/162780/1 "2005-09-16T04:52:58Z")

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Hey everyone,

Most of my songs are in mp3 (192kbps) form. Is there a format that I can convert them to so that there is no quality loss at all? AAC is supposed to be lossless, but in iTunes i found that you can encode it in 128kbps. Yes the file got smaller - but is the quality still the same?

The reason is, if I can get at least 2/3 of my songs under 4gb, i might get an ipod nano. So then again, the file format would have to be supported by an ipod.

Thanks in advance! :sen: