Converting music files

Hello, sorry if i posted this in the wrong section. this seemed like the best one. If I have a file that's 320 kbps bitrate, and I want to convert it to something lower like 192 so I can fit more music on my ipod, is there a program to do that? or is it on itunes?

You can do it directly from iTunes, although you should know that downconverting will probably not be as good of quality as the same bit rate converted off the original CD. At least in theory. But you will have to try it and see if you are happy with the results.
Anyway... When you right click a song, or a bunch of songs at the same time, you will get a menu item that will say "Convert to [xxx]" where [xxx] is whatever current encoding method you have set in iTunes. So for example, if you use MP3 is will say "Convert to MP3". If you have it set for 320 MP3, you can change the preferences for importing to 192 MP3.
Now right click one of your 320 MP3 tunes and pick the "Convert to MP3" option, which should now make a new version that is a 192 kbps version. Assuming that goes like you want. You can do this to more songs including a whole group of selected songs.
One thing to note is that the converted version will be a new copy and will not replace the old version. So if you want to delete the old version, you will have to select them and delete them.
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