Just a question.

If you had a large cd collection (about 600 cd’s) and wanted to rip them all to iTunes, what would you rip them at and to what file format.

In the past I have ripped mine all to AAC format at 128 and personally have always felt that this was ok for me. I listen to my music on my iPod both through headphones and also in my car with an AUX cable, I also listen to it on my Mac mini with desktop computer style speakers and I also stream the files over my home network to listen to on another Mac mini that is connected to my home stereo.

I always figured that 128 AAC was good, at least for me. With the recent realese from Apple and EMI it made me think. Not so much about the DRM but the upgaded quality to 256. Should I have imported my music at a higher level or another format?

What do you guys/girls think? Should I make a project and re-rip them all a bit higher. I do want to maintain a good level and file for the future, but I also do not want to use to much hard drive space. So Loseless format although great, would just not be ideal.

So I guess my question really is if the difference between 128, 256 or even 384 and AAC or mp3 really matter all that much? I guess I should already know the answer, it has never bothered me before, and I certainly will not rip all these in a short time, it would be a few cd’s here and there.