Can you burn an iTunes song onto a CD, and then copy it and play it on another hard drive?
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Yes, this is possible, but there are a few drawbacks. Unlike the tracks on a Music CD that you purchase, the songs that you purchase from the iTunes Music Store are already compressed as .m4a files. Compression means that the songs are deflated so-to-speak, and contain less bits of information than the original. Compressing a song once is okay, but beyond that the quality of the music is severly degraded. When you burn the album to CD you are forcing your computer to reinflate the songs. Even these tracks will probably be listenable, but if you pass that CD on to a friend, and he intends to again rip the tracks and compress them for use on his computer as m4a or mp3 files, you are once again deflating the same file. Bits of information will begin to be missing, and your music quickly begin to sound like garbage, (something like a low bitrate Real Audio broadcast). If you want to purchase music, and make several copies to CD, buying an actual music CD, ripping to WAV and burning that way is your best bet. Hope that Helps!
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The files are converted back and forth , compressed and decompresed. they are all in digital format which there is no sound degradgation like on tapes and records. Countless times I read on fourms people giving out bogus info. ITs all digital there is no loss of quality.
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