Album Art and Battery Life

I am waiting to order the iskin duo for the nano before I buy the nano itself but I was hoping 3 questions could be answered before I make my purchase. Thanks in advance for your help.
1. I have read here that having and looking at photos on the nano shorten the battery life and eat up memory. I do not plan on placing pictures on my nano - but I do have album art for my songs. Does this eat up memory and use up battery life? If so, I may consider removing the album art.
2. Under "importing" in my ITunes Preferences I have it set up as "AAC Encoder" and "128 kbps". Is this the best way to have each song take up as little space as possible for the memory? If not, how do I change this after the fact?
3. I have heard a lot of discussions on where to buy an ipod. Some people feel that the extended warranty with Best Buy is a smart purchase, while some say it isn't worth the money. I have immediate access to buy the ipod online, at an apple store or at Best Buy. Where should I buy one and do you recommend an extended warranty?

Hello Jaime,
1. When You Put Pictures or have album art it shouldnt use up the battery power any more, the battery power will decrease the same amount as it does while its turned on.
2.If want to have the songs the smallest without losing sound quality those are the best settings, i use them and i think the imported songs sound awesome.
3. Best Buy is definately the best play to buy an iPod nano, i have done this and if anything goes wrong they will gladly exchange it or refund your money. I, personally, didnt do with the extended warranty because i wasnt willing to spend 50 bux on it. But if you have no problem with forking out the extra cash i would recommend it because the nanos battery will be eventually have to replaced and if you just send you nano to the apple "place" youll have to pay more than 50 bux, so the Best Buy salesman said...

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You do it on the phone. Load the album art pictures to the memory card. (Must be JPEG NOT BMP)
Load also the music files.
Open Music application in the phone. Open an album then select Options->Album art then Options-> Add, browse for the picture and select Ok.
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Method 2.
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