This is a little bit off the topic since the post topic is about converting from one compression symantic to another compression symantic.
I still have this great difficulty in understanding why so many choose to compress audio material thus changing and greatly limiting it's sonic spectrum. What is so bad about saving as wav/aiff vs. 320mp3? Sorry, I think some know this is a tickling of my pet peave. We must all at least realize that using ANY compression to "save" audio is not saving anything. The audio is redrawn completely different and is merely a shadowed representation of the real thing. The exact coordinates of the audio's sampling structure is discarded. As long as you know that folks, that it's not the real thing, it's psuedoed audio. Even with the price of a MB of storage now being cheaper than it has ever been, surely I too would compress music files to save space, but not at the expense of totally changing the music's harmonic structure, and it does. It's like this: Saving a sound file and using compression saves space at the expense and deterioration of that sound file itself which is being compressed and "saved" only as a likeness. In reality, LOL we are not saving anything as it was. We will be blessed when a day finally comes when we can compress music and decompress music without any effects to sonic integrity. I've said my share.