Converting files to 128kbps AAC

Nearly all of my music is in Lossless format, so when I sync music to my iPhone 4 using iTunes, I click on the box that says "Convert higher bit rate songs to 128 kbps AAC. Works perfectly as it has for years.
Except, iTunes used to convert the lossless files into 128 kbps AAC then store it in my iTunes music library before transferring it to my iPhone. These 128kpbs AAC files made it easy for me to burn CD's or DVD's with all of the 128 AAC songs for my car. Now, I can't find those files, so I think iTunes is doing the conversion on the fly, without actually creating the 128 kpbs file. Am I right? I can't find any info on it, though I might be not be searching correctly.
Anyways, this isn't exactly a problem, just more of a question so that I can proceed correctly for my cars AAC player (yeah, it plays AAC files, not just MP3, like in the old days).

Good to know. That's actually much more efficient for HDD space, because I transfer over about 2500 songs to my iPhone. That's nearly 10GB!

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Automatically Convert to 128kbps AAC on Sync with Nano?

Hello, my sister owns an iPod Shuffle and I own an iPod nano. On her Shuffle she has the option to Automatically Convert Higher Bitrate Songs to 128kbps AAC when she syncs. Is it possible to have this option on the nano? I don't see it? This would be very helpful as right now I have all my songs ripped off CDs twice, once in Apple Lossless format for playing on my computer, and once at 128kbps AAC to sync to my iPod, which makes for a rather messy library and wastes hard drive space! I find it hard to believe they would not have this option on the more expensive nano.

Well that bites doesn't it?
I've done a little bit of reading and I now have a theory as to why this is. iTunes does this for mobile phones too, and I think it's because mobile phones and the Shuffle cannot play all formats (the Shuffle cannot play Apple Lossless files) so iTunes includes this option for them. It seems a bit of an oversight not to have it for other iPods too.

I'm getting a 9041 error when trying to convert files to AAC -- any ideas on how to fix it? the files files in iTunes show up as Apple Lossless but i can't put them on my iPod

i'm getting a 9041 error when trying to convert files to AAC -- any ideas on how to fix it? the files files in iTunes show up as Apple Lossless but i can't put them on my iPod

"I have been able to convert to AAC by first converting to AIFF and then to AAC. This is a pan though."
this worked for me.
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ITunes 7 and Shuffle:"Convert higher bit rate songs to 128kbps AAC" broken

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I have the same issue but with my iPad 2 and iPhone 3GS. Songs play fine in iTunes. If is uncheck Convert higher bit rate songs to 128kbps AAC the no more scratching sounds on my devices.

Converting Songs to 128kbps and AAC

How do you convert songs to 128kbps and to an AAC format?

1) Confirm you import settings are set to the desired format. In ITunes go to Edit>Preferences>Advanced>Importing than select in your case ACC encoder and the desired bitrate.
2) Highlight the desired songs to be converted using shift (Music store songs will not convert but they would be in this format anyways) than right click and say Convert Selection to ACC.

Workflow- iTunes Convert to AAC, copy to ipod & delete converted files

I like to save my music in either Apple Lossless or MP3 (320kb) formats. Unfortunately, when I go to save these onto my ipod mini the files are too large and take up too much space. Id like to try and mimic the software that comes with an ipod shuffle where it can take any file, compress it and copy it to my ipod mini without creating duplicates in my itunes.
Can anyone offer some advice on how to create a workflow to do the following:
1. Get selected itunes songs (any kind)
2. Convert to AAC
3. Copy to ipod
4 Delete the converted files in itunes
Ive looked at some of the automator actions and im a bit confused with the difference of
- delete original selected tracks -OR-
-delete files of the original selected tracks
that are options with the "convert tracks" or "copy tracks to ipod" actions

For the record, these 3rd party actions are not part of a default Automator installation. They're available for download here.
Now, you could think of iTunes as basically a very fancy collection of aliases. When you delete a tack in iTunes, it asks if you want to move the files to the trash, or keep them in your music folder. If you select "Keep Files" what you end up with is a bunch of orphans: files that physically exist in your music folder, but are no longer accessible through the iTunes interface. You have, in effect, deleted the alias without deleting the file.
And that, as far as I can tell, is the reasoning behind the two seemingly redundant check boxes in these actions.

Trouble Converting Files

I've had many problems with Nokia PC Suite but I won't mention all of them just the ones I've had to deal with recently.
Often, and I'm sure a lot of Nokia users will agree with me, Nokia Music Manager won't convert files. It will say that that particular file format is not supported. I can convert probably most mp3 files to M4A (Mobile Optimised Format 48kb/s) which usually works fine. Some mp3s it won't convert and says it doesn't support that format, yet it has supported all the other mp3s that worked. I know it may be a bitrate problem, but I have a program that can convert a music file to a different bitrate and sometimes when I change the bitrate of the file then it works. However sometimes this doesn't even work. It doesn't even work if I change the conversion settings to different M4A format or bitrate. It will sometimes let me convert it to the lesser quality ACC format which sounds terrible on a phone, like its been recorded with a microphone from the radio speakers.
I've had a lot of problems with converting files but I won't go into them all. The main one which I'm concerned with is why does Nokia Music Manager not convert MANY mp3 files???? When they clearly work and I can clearly play them fine. I've had to do without a lot of good songs on my phone since Nokia Music Manager simply refuses to convert them! I thought surely the updates might have addressed this issue and it's not like it won't convert one or two files out of my whole collection as even this would be acceptable (even if I still didn't know the reason why), but it doesn't convert MANY files. Not most of them, but whenever I want to chuck a bunch of songs onto my phone, chances are there will be at least one or two that will refuse to convert.
OS: Windows Vista Home Premium
Phone: Nokia 6300, connected via Bluetooth
Nokia PC Suite Version: 7.0.9.2
Noka Music Manager Version: 2.0

I think 6300 is a great music player when listened thru a good earphone. It can also play mp3 and wmv format. So, you don't have to convert them. You can listen to mp3's using 6300.
Personally, I agree with a lot of people against converting from one lossy audio to another as it loses audio quality, like mp3 to aac. So, I put in a 2gb card and use at least 128kbps on my mp3s, aac or wmv for really good music. I use Windows Media Player 11 to organize and transfer music files to my 6300 as WMP is great in organizing music files.
Message Edited by lowbatt on 26-Dec-2008 05:16 PM

Converting from ALAC to AAC: A question of quality?

I'm trying to back up my music electronically. I have all of my CD's on a rack in my entertainment center. However, I'm upgrading to a flat panel TV (YES!!!) finally, and with my old tube TV, the entertainment center is going, and being replaced by something much smaller.
Anyways, I'd like to make copies of my CDs, so I can store them away in the attic. I was told Apple Lossless is essentially the same as having the actual CD on your computer (so no loss in fidelity at all). However, I was wondering if this is true.
And if it is true, does this mean that I can rip CD's to my external HD in ALAC, and then convert them to AAC without any additional loss of quality??? (i.e. Does converting a song in ALAC format to AAC have the same quality as converting from the actual CD to AAC?)

Any lossless format - Apple Lossless, FLAC, etc., - should be identical to the original in sound quality.
I have found this to be this case in listening tests on fairly high quality stereo equipment. However, the best way to answer your question is to test this yourself. Rip a cd to Apple Lossless, and, I would suggest, to 320 bit AAC, and then see if you can hear a difference between them. I'll bet that you would be hard pressed to hear a difference even at 320 bit. After ripping my cd's I now regard my cd's as my backup, and the digital copies my actual collection, since that's what I actually listen to. So in that sense you always have a perfect backup, as long as you still have the cd.
I frequently convert FLAC's to AAC with outstanding results, and would expect the same with Apple Lossless. I think the bit rate you choose to convert to will be much more significant than whether you
convert from CD or lossless. Again, try it and see if you can hear a difference. (If my memory is correct - not always the case - the lossless format will be decoded first and then will be recoded to AAC - meaning you are essentially creating the AAC files from cd's in either case. Can't find a source on this tho to point you to).
One last thing, is storing them in the attic your only alternative? I just remember storing records in the attic and, well, they just never were the same with the summer heat. Cd's are more durable but I'd still be worried (unless it was a finished attic).

Converting files to Apple Lossless without keeping originals

Can someone let me know if it is possible to convert files to Apple Lossless without actually keeping the original file. I converted all my files and now my whole library is duplicated! Also need to kneo the quickest way to erase all my duplicated files.

Just a note: you don't say what format the tracks were that you converted, but unless they were AIFF or lossless WAV, there was no point in converting them to Apple Lossless. Once you have a "lossy" format such as AAC or MP3, data is thrown away and there's no way to get the lost data/quality back. So if it was MP3, AAC, WMA or compressed WAV tracks, converting them to Lossless gets you nothing but larger file sizes.
You might already know this, but just wanted to mention it.
Regards.

Converting files to MP3s

Does anyone know how to convert different files to MP3s? (Does anyone have a good program?) I need to do this in order to play a lot of my music on my phone
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Yea, iTunes only converts files you've already got on your HDD to AAC. I think what this guy meant was that when you first rip the music off a CD, you can have it encoded to mp3.
If you want to convert your AAC music files to mp3, it can be done...but I don't consider that an option at all. The quality of the music is, to say the least, generally horrible. Re-encoding a compressed file doesn't lead to good things. At least that's been my experience. And even when it does produce at least mediocre results, the amount of time you pump into to converting the files is insane.
You could burn the music to CD in iTunes, then re-rip it all in iTunes as an mp3. The quality doesn't drop nearly as much as if you directly converted it, which runs against logic, but whatever. It's also how you convert nasty DRM protected music from iTunes to nice, clean, DRM free files. Of course, this takes even longer than if you directly converted the files, and forces you to use quite a few CDs (unless you're using CD-RWs, though those wear out).
Honestly, your best option is just to download everything you want off of BitTorrent. Say what you will of that, but you do already have the music on your HDD, which you (hopefully) purchased. So why should you pay again, or spend all that time re-ripping everything just to get it in a different codec? You shouldn't. And just so you don't run into this problem in the future, remember to rip/download everything as mp3, not Apple's proprietary AAC.

Copying/converting apple lossless to aac in a different location?

I have ripped about 1000 cd's or so in apple lossless format to run on a sonos player.
I want to convert those tracks to aac so i can run on an ipod. but i do not want to store them in the same location on NAS.
any suggestions how to do this?
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You can create a new library.
1. Hold shift when starting iTunes. Choose Create Library and select the location for the new library.
2. You'll start off with a blank library. Open iTunes Preferences and turn off the option (on the Advanced tab) to copy files to your iTunes library when adding files.
3. Change the location of your library (also on the Advanced tab) to the place you want to save AAC files.
4. Set the import prefs.
5. Add the lossless tracks to the library. (These will remain in their current location)
6. Convert tracks to aac. These will be in the new library location.
Hope that helps

Converting from WAV, or "converting but secretly not converting" from wav to AAC

I got this particular problem I just found out about. I imported a wav file into iTunes, and I assumed that means it gets converted to whatever format I set iTunes up for (in my case AAC). But when I then sync my iPod, I get the message that the file that was originally in WAV, cannot be imported because it is not in a compatible format. Yet the same song plays fine in iTunes. This does not make sense, unless iTunes does NOT convert files you import into the required file standard, but just copies them in, and iTunes happened to be able to play wav files. But then again, if iTunes is compatible with WAV files, why isn't iPod?
Now, I have to add, I have the file already on my computer, so I just drag the wav file into my iTunes. Does that mean iTunes copies the file over to the iTunes library, or does it actually convert it into the file format set up?

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As far as your WAV file, iTunes and iPod can both play WAV. They are pretty reliable if it is a CD-quality WAV, but sometimes have trouble if it is a low bitrate WAV such as the kind that come out of voice recorders. If that is the problem, use a 3rd party conversion tool such as Switch to convert it to an MP3 or AAC.

Converting mp3 to m4a(AAC)

If I convert mp3 to m4a(AAC) will the quality of the song be better or the same as a mp3? Does converting it really even do anything?

Well, it makes it so those files won't play on anything but an ipod.
I am in the process of converting 5000+ songs from Apple lossless to mp3. What a pain. I wish I'd ripped them as mp3s to begin with.
Anyway - it is personal preference. Convert a song or two and see if you can tell the difference, is my advice.

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