Loading only aac tracks to ipod

I have ongoing issues with many mp3 encoded files being "skipped" when I try to play them back on my ipod. I have discovered that if the offending tracks are converted to aac tracks within itunes, that they will play fine on the ipod. To save some effort, I had itunes convert the entire music library to aac encoding. Now in the itunes application library, I have duplicate songs, one mp3 copy and one aac copy. My question is, now if I load the clean (delete all the content presently on it) ipod will all the songs (aac and mp3 copies) be loaded onto the ipod (duplicates of all songs) or will itunes just load the aac/MPEG4 songs in the itunes library folder (user>my music>itunes>itunes music). I need a way to insure only the aac encoded material is loaded onto the ipod.
Thanks

iTunes will not distinguish between AAC and MP3 tracks when syncing to an iPod, since the iPod can play both. If you want to sync only AAC tracks, you'll either have to create playlists with only your AAC content and sync those, or remove the MP3 versions from iTunes (the easiest way to do the latter is to show the Kind column and sort that that; that will collect all your MP3 tracks so you can easily select them all and delete them).
BTW, for future issues with MP3 tracks not playing correctly, the headers on the problem tracks may be corrupted or nonstandard. This can happen with some MP3 conversion or import utilities, and iTunes and the iPod are very picky about headers. Mp3 Validator Mac version may help.
Regards.

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