Converting an entire collection from AIFF to AAC

titchard

titchard

titchard

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Hello!

I have all my music on my mac as AIFF, and would love to make a copy of the collection so I can have it as AAC for my iPod.

I wish they had a "convert on add" on the Touch like my Shuffle did.

Do you know any way of having two libraries, one as AAC and one as AIFF, so I can have the AAC for on the go and AIFF for through my Hifi?

Thanks in advance to any advice given!

Rich
 
You could create a seperate iTunes library, hold the Alt-Option key when starting iTunes and choose to create another library for the dialog box that comes up.
 
wush said:
Man - why on earth did they disable this? It would be so handy for some people.
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I think it only exists on the Shuffle, and it really bugs me! I always had my collection in lossless on my machine and lossy on my iPod, just made sense!

Will look into this option mentioned above - does that mean I can switch between libraries?

Rich
 
That is cool - can I point iTunes toward my old library and say "convert all this into AAC" - for some reason when I right click on files within iTunes it says convert to AIFF - but it is already in AIFF.

Rich
 
Forget that last comment!

I have got it currently running and converting. It is currently making an AAC copy of each AIFF file in my normal library then I will cut and paste those into my newly created compressed library ready for my iPod!

Thank you very much for your help Will_3RD!

Rich
 
titchard said:
That is cool - can I point iTunes toward my old library and say "convert all this into AAC" - for some reason when I right click on files within iTunes it says convert to AIFF - but it is already in AIFF.

Rich
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It will say "convert to xxxx" depending on your import settings.

In other words, briefly change the import settings to AAC and the option of "convert to AAC" will appear when you right click :)
 
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