File formats on purchased songs.

When I purchase songs from ITunes, they are in an ACC format. To use on the shuffle, I need to convert to a MP3 Format. I now have duplicates of the songs. I know this is a silly question, but I would rather be safe than sorry. Can I delete the ACC format, thus only have the MP3 format in my library.

Can I delete the ACC format, thus only have the MP3 format in my library.
Yes, you can.
However, it would be easier to just buy the songs in MP3 format in the first place and save the extra trouble. Good places to buy MP3s are Amazon MP3 and Google Play Music.
MP3s will work in virtually every player, program, and device, both Apple and non-Apple.

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If the upgrade to Vista somehow erased the files, you'll need to restore them from your backup or, if a feature of the country you're in, download the content again from the iTunes Store. See:
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2519
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I've been digitizing my LP collection using the AIFF file format. Most songs are in the 30-40MB range and my 320 GB HD is filling up fast.
My plan is to get Apple TV, play them over my home theater speakers and get rid of the LPs when I'm done. I want good quality, but do the files need to be this big? Should I convert them to some other format? If so, how can I do this in batch?

I digitized a number of my LPs, many of which were by obscure groups and never re-released on CD. I even went to the extent of using software to individually isolate cracks and pops and interpolate, so I spent a lot of time doing that. Although AAC is high-quality it is still lossy and you won't be able to regain the original without going to all the work again. With all the effort I put in I chose to use FLAC compression to archive the original on archival grade DVDs and hard drives, then used a lossy compression (I used MP3 for wider compatibility but AAC is better quality) to have a copy for everyday listening. FLAC will compress to about 60% off the size of the original AIFF and can be expanded again to an identical original. Apple Lossless does something similar but I chose FLAC because ALE is proprietary and you have to use iTunes whereas FLAC is open source and available for any platform and in multiple programs.
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Burning Purchased Songs

I know some programs similar to iTunes either limit the number of burns you can do or don't let you burn the songs at all. Does iTunes fall into one of these categories? I've never burned purchased songs, but I recently got a gift card and I want to make sure I would be able to.
Thanks,
Matt

The 7 time burn limit is there, but there is a rather simple way around it. Simply burn the CD in whatever order you want, then re-import that CD you just burned into iTunes. You can then delete the protected AAC files of the purchased songs and use the newly imported files instead. This way the 7 burn limit to each playlist is eliminated.
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Is it possible to purchase songs from the istore in the MP3 format? or can I convert them to MP3 after purchase?

As given, music purchases from the iTunes store are in AAC format. Amazon and others offer mp3s.
To convert your files to MP3, setup your import settings (Edit > Preferences > General > Import Settings) for the target format & bitrate, select tracks, right-click and click Create MP3 version.
Note that unless converting from one lossless format to another you will lose some audio quality in any conversion. Whether that loss is noticeable or acceptable is for you to determine.
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I have tried to transfer some recently purchased songs from Itunes into my library as it wasn't happening automatically. Some of them come up with an exclamation mark and say the file cannot be located. Tried to search but don't really know where to look. I could understand if they had been imported from another source but I just bought them. Help!

Nevermind. I was looking in the wrong place. Found it in the store under purchases.

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The 'unable to locate' message means that you don't have those music files on that computer, or that they are not where iTunes is expecting them to be. How did you get the entries for those tracks in your new computer's iTunes ?
If you still have your old computer then you can try copying them over again : http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4527
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