I always figured the "easiest" way would be to play the AAC back through your audio inputs

But then you have to wait for your entire album to play in real-time and then encode/tag after that. Might as well just go straight to the ripping/encoding then tag. At least then it'll happen 5-10x faster. Also, wouldn't there be some quality loss or introduced artifacts by going from digital->analog->digital? Or am I wrong there?

- trs