Converting all my music to AAC 128 KBPS, Will there be a difference?

Will there be a major difference between anything higher then 128 Kbps?
I don't notice a thing. And plus I don't really pay attention to sound quality.

I can hear the difference between 128 and 320. that's one of the reason I never bought music online at that bit rate. other than 4 songs I got from Amazon, all my music has been ripped from my cd's at 320. Lossless doesn't provide any tangible benefit for me, but there are some that require lossless to "float their boat".

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Using the "Convert higher bit rate songs to 128 kbps AAC" feature...

I recently discovered the "Convert higher bit rate songs to 128 kbps AAC" feature and used it to copy my entire 70 GB music library to my 64GB iPad. The music library now occupies only 45 GB. Awesome!!!
Unfortunately, the whole process took well over 24++ hours on my quad core Windows 7 computer (takes about 6 seconds per track). Questions:
1. Is it possible to speed up the process? Even though I am using iTunes 64-bit version, it seems that at no point is more than a single core being used at 33%. Seems to me like overall 8% of the CPU (33% / 4) capacity is being used for the conversion and 92% is being left idle. Is this just bad programming or is there anything I can do to speed up the process? Others see similar problems?
2. Now I have already started dreading the day, I need to restore my iPad (e.g., when OS version 4 becomes available). I would hate to have to do this process all over again. Should I need to restore my iPad, is there anyway I can force iTunes to back up the 128-bit AAC versions on my computer and restore it up from there?
Any insights into both these questions will be deeply appreciated.
Cheers,

ed2345 wrote:
malus_domestica wrote:
Thanks for the response.
So, I am wondering why iTunes uses only 8% of the processor power in converting the songs.
Possible reasons not to grab more of the CPU power (1) maybe the process is I/O bound due to all the writing, and is not processor limited? (2) since conversion is almost always a background program, and the user will typically have other things going on, maybe it intentionally limits CPU use?
I ran a few quick experiments (out of curiosity) and think the answer is #2. No apparent technical reason but potentially a limitation introduced by Apple's engineers to maintain a good user experience (for some people at least). I fired up 4 instances of dbpoweramp and ran multiple conversions and found that the process goes faster than what iTunes can do by an order of magnitude. With luck, someday Apple will have an option for users to select how much of processor bandwidth to be allocated for the conversion.

HT1535 How do i convert higher bit rate songs to 128 kbps AAC

I am trying to sync selected songs to my Iphone 5 from my itunes library. I have recently taken my computer to be fixed and all of my music documents were taken off but the files were replaced shorty after. I re-downloaded itunes and it is up to date. My iphone is also on the ios 7.0.4. Whenever i plug my phone in to be synced it never goes past the "waiting for changes to be applied" step. While my phone was still connected i went to the "On this iphone" tab and clicked the autofill button and a message came up that said i must convert higher bit rate songs to 128 kbps ACC to allow the songs to be copied to my iphone. How do i do this? Also, once this is done will it solve my problem with transfeering my songs from my library to my iphone?

Sid,
With the device connected, click the Summary tab and you will see the "Convert higher bit rate..." option. Set it to 128. See picture below:

What does convert higher bit rates songs to 128 kbps mean

what does convert higher bit rate songs to 128 kbps mean?

pattyfromsyracuse wrote:
what does convert higher bit rate songs to 128 kbps mean?
Some people, myself included, import their music from original audio CDs. When doing so I choose to import using Apple Lossless format so as to keep the full original quality of the audio CDs (this is after all why it is called Apple Lossless format in that you are not losing any quality).
The drawback of doing this is that the music files take a lot more disk space than a lossy format like MP3 or AAC. This is these days not a problem on a computer as hard disk space is now cheap an plentiful but it can be a problem on a flash memory based music player like the iPod Shuffle, iPod Nano, iPod Touch, or iPhone as these have far less capacity.
Therefore Apple now let you turn on this option to automatically convert from Apple Lossless to AAC when syncing to one of these music players. As a result on your computer the music is still kept in the full lossless high quality format, but is converted and transferred as a much smaller but slightly lower quality for use on these music players. As with an iPod you are not listening in a quiet room with high quality speakers you will not really notice the difference in quality.

If I convert the songs on my iPhone to 128 kbps, will the play counts still sync with what's on my computer?

If I convert the songs on my iPhone to 128 kbps, will the play counts still sync with what's on my computer? I have a lot of songs on my iPhone which are at the 256 kbps bitrate, and if I take them down to 128 kbps on my iPhone, I'll be able to fit a lot more music on my iPhone. But...I really would like to keep the play counts between my iPhone and my Mac in sync. Will that still happen if I switch, or will there be an issue?

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HT1296 i have just updated to the newest version of ipod softare, the ipod intalled new software but now all the music and videos on it will not play

i have just updated to the newest version of ipod softare, the ipod intalled new software but now all the music and videos on it will not play, how do i fix this

Try:
- Reset the iOS device. Nothing will be lost
Reset iOS device: Hold down the On/Off button and the Home button at the same time for at
least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
- Unsync all music and videos and resync
- Reset all settings
Go to Settings > General > Reset and tap Reset All Settings.
All your preferences and settings are reset. Information (such as contacts and calendars) and media (such as songs and videos) aren’t affected.
- Restore from backup. See:
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- Restore to factory settings/new iOS device.

I am tying to add music from a disk i imported but it says "convert higher bit rate songs to 128 kbps AAC"? How do i do this?

How do i convert the bit rate to 128 kbps? Having difficulty figuring that out

Add to what? An iOS device (of which you make no mention)?
https://discussions.apple.com/message/18341150 (picture for iPad)

Music Skips Some Songs After Choosing "Convert higher bit rate songs to 128 kbps" Option

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Meg St._Clair wrote:
"Convert" tends to be a confusing term. What iTunes does is make another copy of the track at the lower bit rate for transfer to the Shuffle. Your original, higher bitrate file remains untouched.
Actually, iTunes converts the track on-the-fly while loading it on the shuffle. NO copy of the downconverted track is kept. The same process will occur IF you decide to delete the track from the shuffle and then happen to want to put it on the shuffle again.

"Convert higher bit rate songs to 128 kbps AAC" doesn't allow full fill

Hi,
The 128 kbps option does indeed shrink the size of the songs on my 3GS iPhone when using iTunes 9.1, but it won't let me fill it up it and complains that I have more music than can fit. I have been playing with this and for test purposes have 3 playlists. I am able to sync the first 2 and have >15GB free. I add the 3rd playlist which has only 8 GB in it and the sync fails saying that there isn't enough room. I have tried rebooting the iPhone and the Mac Pro both of which are on the latest version/service pack of their respective OS's.
The only thing that I might have that is non-standard, is that some reasonable portion of my music is encoded at 320 kbps rather than 256 kbps.
Anyone have any idea what is happening?
--Jonathan

Try redownloading iTunes from www.apple.com/itunes. It will show that you are still downloading/installing version 9.1.1 but it is build 12, instead of buill 11. This new build wasn't in Software Update but version 9.1.1 (11) had issues with this conversion to 128 kbps. Version 9.1.1 (12) fixes it.

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Hi, my brother got an ipod nano for xmas and i have a 60 gig. All my music right now is in apple lossless and takes up a bunch of space. i have about 50 gigs of music but he only has room for 4 gigs. Is there a program that u can just convert it all to acc so that it dosent take forever to do? What i am going to do is put all that music on my external hd then onto his computer but with apple lossless it only fits like 30 cds.

I feel your pain....sort of.
I have a "master" library on a dedicated external drive where I put clones of ALL my CDs in AIFF format. I use the drive as the source for a wireless media server.
I recently wanted to make mp3 copies of everything, 350 CDs, more or less, to back up and use as a source for my iPod and iPod shuffle.
iTunes will do it, but it does take some time and require additional space on the "mothership" for the mp3 copies. You just create a "smart" playlist with a qualifier like : KIND IS MP3... Almost 300GB of AIFF was shrunk down to 28GB of high quality mp3. I did it over a couple of days, but at one sitting, I guess it would have taken about 6-8 hours. Obviously, the speed of your CPU and the parameters of your hard drive are variables.
Launch iTunes, go to your master library, select the albums/songs you want to "mp3-ize", then go to the Advanced Menu and select Convert to MP3.. (Before you do this, you must go into iTunes preferences and setup your import options to the quality of mp3 you want...)

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Both of these problems have been issues for me for years. I've finally gotten irritated enough to post something. As a musician with a variable and eclectic taste, I've always had a huge CD collection. Some years ago I got my first mp3 player and soon broke down and converted every last CD to mp3. Now everything I buy is digital and I have some 300 GB of mp3's!
I've searched around for a solution to this problem many times over the past several years and was never able to find any posts that describe either problem.
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The music sync is one way - computer to ipod. The only exception is itunes purchases.
The ipod is not a storage/backup device. It simply mirrors the selected content of your computer.
As the music came from your computer in the first place, it should still be there and in your backup copy of your computer.

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