I wanted to know if I can play a AAC format (I-tunes)disc in my pioneer 6-disc changer? I have over 6000 songs on my hard drive and there is no way I am re-burning my CDs .

 

nope, aac will not work in any mp3 player headunit. different codec, different encoding

- Brian

 

Is there anyway to change the encoding without re-burning???

 

you can encode the aac files as aiff, then convert the aiff files to mp3

other than that you're kinda out of luck.

- Brian

 

If you reencode its going to sound bad due to the compression loss.

 

well, kind of, if you convert to aiff, there is no loss of quality, going back to aac there may be a bit, but probably not as the frequencys that aac strips out would allready be missing

- Brian

 

Does anyone know if Pioneer has a firmware upgrade for their head units that will allow them to play AAC files?

 

The new Kenwood headunits plays AAC along with WMA and MP3 CDs.

 

Converting AAC to AIFF when your just going to convert it to MP3 is a waste of time. Just Go straight to MP3. Once something is compressed information is lost.

Once it's AAC peices are lost. Converting it to AIFF doesn't put them back it just inflates the file.