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Managing separate versions of the same album in iTunes?


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Similar so I just tacked on to this thread. Sorry for being clueless when it comes to itunes and ipods. If I rip CDs using Max as ALACs and get them added to my itunes library, is there anyway that I can copy these over to my ipod but encoded in a lossy format to save space? And recommended format or bitrate? Mostly rock, so 160kbps? higher?

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This is what I do:

  • Change my settings to lossless;
  • Rip CD's (usually, a batch at a time);
  • Change my options to lossy (specifically, MP3, 228? something VBR);
  • Select all the Apple Lossless files I just generated (sort by Date Added makes it easy, as long as I'm not doing anything else with iTunes, which I have to admit, I've done once or thrice);
  • Right-click -> create MP3 version;
  • Profit!

I actually keep them in two separate folders, too, but that also requires me to stop the thing when I hit "okay" after changing my settings.

Let me know if you need more detail, or if that helps. Bitrate is up to you -- I started out lossless, then went to 320, then went to where I am now -- and that's sufficient. This is mostly for car listening, so my requirements are even lower than yours, but I have it set higher than I can hear by a goodly margin.

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Thanks. I did it manually after doing some googling and had forgotten about Doug's scripts :palm:. I'll take a look at these when I get home later this week. I settled on 192k for car use and seems OK. It woud be nice not to have to store multiple versions; just lossless then downgrade when putting them on the ipod.

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