If these were with no DRM, you could get the loss of the ones locally from Apple Music and then just recompress them yourself. And then you would have your lossless remastered version of all the songs in a more compact size. But I do think that if you're coming from much, much worse compressed files, there is a benefit to be had to stepping up to this new modern format.

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