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Thu, Apr 7 2011, 7:56PM
Jammoe
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Evening.

 

I currently have all music in Apple Lossless on PC. 160gb Ipod isn't big enough to have everything on, but i want to convert to best possible quality on Ipod.

Is there a way to do this "on the fly"?

I know Itunes will let me convert to 128kbps, but i was hoping for something of higher quality?

Of course, i can keep a second copy of everything at a lower bit rate, but i really don't want to double up on everything to manage the library.

 

Any ideas? 

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Fri, Apr 8 2011, 11:41AM
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RE: MP3/MP4

iTunes will let you transcode your ALACs to any bitrate AACs or MP3s you desire. But I don't trust iTunes for transcoding. Never sounds right to my ears for whatever reason. If you could cough up the cash I'd look at dbPoweramp.

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