Well, by using AAC you've created a lossy version of what you ripped. So, I'm guessing the answer would be yes. That is if your comparing to a store bought CD or burned CDR from a lossless source. It's probably not going to be that noticeable especially if it's encoded at a bit rate and if it's a studio release probbaly not noticeable. But in short yes, there is quality loss.
That makes sense. My question was mainly directed toward shows. When ever I do trades, it's better (or required) that I burn the WAV files instad of the AAC files.
Thanks for the reply.
No problem, One thing though you should not be trading files sourced from a AAC file. Your better off archiving the shows in FLAC/SHN and then burning your audios. Unless, I'm missing something here. It sounds like your sending out stuff you burned out of itunes. Which iTunes is great for listening but unless, your using Apple's Lossless codec (not AAC) your polluting the gene pool of that recording. I would get in the habit of decompressing the archived flac shows and burning straight .wav files using Nero or what not. I guess Nero will birn audios of flac files directly which will save time but I have no experience with doing that (sorry, I'm a mac guy).
I don't use Nero, I run OSX as well. I haven't traded any discs burned from AAC yet, and I figured I wouldn't because this was bad practice. I just wanted to make sure that was the case.
i really wish that OSX has Toast, or something similar, because extracting audio in itunes is such a pain, especially when you are just going to delete the files after you're done burning the discs!
Anyways, thanks for the help