Importing to an iPod.

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Hey guys,

About a year ago, i recorded all my music into apple lossless. I haven't really used my iPod in that time, but am now going to be using it more again. Is there any software that will convert the music into more manageable sizes for my iPod "on the fly", meaning, as i drag and drop it will do it, rather than me having to have 2 copies of albums or whatever.
I have a lot of high quality bitrate music, so an 80gb iPod won't really hold more than 100 albums and i like to lump it all on :)

Thanks very much in advance.
 
I'm not aware of any software that will do it on the fly, but I have way more than 100 albums at high quality (256-320KBs), ball park figure 6400+ songs, on my 80GB classic. Plus films. My total music collection comes to about 50GB. So unless you have 100's of albums I can't see you running into many problems.
 
Try Switch, I think it may have an option to overwrite the source files. However it hurts to get rid of all that high-quality music! Are you sure it's not worth investing in another HDD, if you don't have space? For £20 tops you could pick up a decent size HDD on an auction site, or the MM, second hand.
 
Sorry, i think what i said has been misinterpreted perhaps.

I have about 300gb of apple lossless music on my computer which i have no intention of getting rid of.

I'm looking for a way to get this on my iPod without having to go through either re-recording the music, or converting each album individually.
Having a software which converted the music to say 320kbps as i added it to my iPod would really make the whole operation easier.

Otherwise i guess i will just have to convert the files and keep the original apple lossless file as well, so have 2 sets of my record collection until i've got it on my iPod?
 
You should have two sets anyway, in case your HDD goes up in smoke! :p

I know of nothing to do that. But you should be able to find software fairly easily that will find all music files in a folder and subfolders, and lay them all out in a new folder/subfolders, as they were before. Minimum fuss. I don't know how iTunes would respond to having all its music deleted when it wasn't looking though.. hate for it to try to synch with your ipod next time you plugged it in and deleted all your music :p
 
Hehe, well i imported it all using iTunes, then switched to Winamp after i had problems with iTunes deleting random portions of my music collection.

Yes, im rather awkward! :D
 
foobar could do the whole lot in one go. you can set it up to output files matching your current folder structure and all tags would remain intact. ALAC decoding isn't installed by default - it's an additional component from the main site. also you'd need to download whatever encoder you want to use (eg lame.exe for mp3s)and plonk the .exe in the same folder as foobar.

http://www.foobar2000.org/?page=Download
 
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