Converting Music Files

Re: Converting Music Files

You have the possibility to manually convert everything to an AAC format since iTunes has an integrated encoder, the procedure takes a lot of time but it's a quality -> space bargain and can benefit you greatly. Select your songs, go on the right-click drop down menu and you should be able to access that option ("Create AAC Version"). Might take a while but it's worth it.

Before doing all of that though, be sure to check out your encoder settings in Preferences -> General -> Import Settings. If you do want to actually save capacity, anything under 160 kbps/196 kbps should do the trick since there's not any distinguishable difference between the two. I personally set it at 128 kbps since everything on my iPod is for casual usage and while the difference can be heard towards lower frequencies, it doesn't matter much when coming out of headphones/speakers. If you do use studio quality headphones, you might want to experiment and find whatever settings suits you. Be sure to turn on VBR too.

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Yeah and be sure to be on the lookout for songs recorded in mono, as those will be encoded to half the final bit rate. You might want to search for better quality or encode them at higher rates.

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No easy way around it

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DVDVideoSoft has an Audio Converter you can dl from their website. Just drag all the files you want in and convert them to whatever format you need. I think it works with all the filetypes you mentioned, and iirc iTunes supports MP3 files.

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And wavs