Converting an entire collection from AIFF to AAC

titchard · 20 Apr 2009 at 16:26

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

titchard · 21 Apr 2009 at 08:20

wush said:
Man - why on earth did they disable this? It would be so handy for some people.

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

titchard · 21 Apr 2009 at 10:08

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

titchard · 21 Apr 2009 at 11:13

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