Converting Lossless to ACC

New to the forum...so, hello...
OK. I've archived my CD collection in lossless on an external hardrive which also contains all iTunes library info. etc. There is nothing on my laptop apart from iTunes software itself.
I know I can convert the lossless files to ACC using iTunes (for my iPod), but what I want to do is put the ACC files either on the HD of my laptop or on another (smaller) external HD.
How (can?) I do this? If so, where will iTunes put the "new library" for the ACC files?
Many thanks for any help.

When iTunes does the format conversion, it puts the converted file into your iTunes library, as you have specified in Edit > Preferences > Advanced > General. (Convert one file and watch how this works.) If that is not where you want them, you can (a) let it convert and then move them, or (b) use a conversion program that lets you specify where to place them, such as Switch.
Note that the use of iTunes to support parallel libraries (e.g. one lossless and one compressed) is not well supported so you will have to improvise a bit.

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-goal is to have large external HD as a media server with a mac mini/iTV as front end.
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... when i come across a future lossless audio file that i want to convert to ACC what bitrate is recommended for a quality imitation of MP3 audio?
The most common bitrate for either AAC or MP3 is 256, but if you want that little increment of quality go with 320.
Somewhere above about 160 the differences between MP3 and AAC vanish, so if you have a bitrate that you like for MP3 use it also for AAC.

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Hi, I store my music in Itunes as Apple Lossless, it's not so great for the Ipod however, I was wondering if its possible to get itunes to automatically recode my music to ACC as it moves my music onto my Ipod Nano?

Been there, am doing that.
I have 186 GB iTunes library, almost all of which is Apple Lossless. I started converting it to ACC (default 128) last evening at 7:21 PM. It is now 8:39 PM and about 3000 of the 8549 songs have been converted.
Here is my post with a very similar situation. The response (though it's time-consuming) was exactly what I wanted. Good luck.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1095708&tstart=0
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Question 2: Best way to manage multiple libraries?
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-goal is to have large external HD as a media server with a mac mini/iTV as front end.
-would like to have iMac hardwired to external HD via Firewire for data manipulation/editing, then upload into 'Master Source' file for photos, music, movies
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Hello ed and thank you for replying!
Well, I did drag the Lossless files from iTunes to the USB and I did check the properties of the file in the USB and well, I see it is an MPEG-4 audio file (like my other song files are in iTunes).
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Convert wma to acc?

Hi.
I have a few songs purchased in wma format through windows media player.
Just came to the conclusion that iTunes has by far a much wider catalogue and started buying music there.
Now I would like to import the wma files into iTunes. How can I do this?
Thanks for your help.

I don't know of any other way...it is the same thing for Apple-protected songs, if you want to play them in WMP.
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Converting Lossy to Lossless (you heard that right)

This may seem like a strange question, but…
I am converted all of my CD’s to Lossless format. I also havesome AAC files that I purchased online. Lastly, I have some MP3s in which I have no high res format original (Lossless).
I know converting Lossless to Lossy will degrade the soundquality some. However, what if someone were to convert Lossy to Lossless? I know it would be a bigger file and no better sound, but would the conversion make the sound worse WORSE because the file is disorted?
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It will not make the sound worse, but as you yourself say, there will be no benefit to doing such a conversion.
BTW, this forum is for questions about iTunes U, Apple's service for colleges and universities to post educational material in the iTunes Store. Normally you will get the quickest and most applicable responses if you ask your questions in the general iTunes forums.
Regards.

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