Lossless and lossy library

I currently have an itunes library (5,800 songs) setup with Apple lossless files. I mainly used the itunes library to feed my squeezeboxes to play music in my house.
I just purchased an 80 GB iPod and I would like for all of my music to fit on the iPod. Obviously, 5,800 lossless songs will not fit.
I want to keep my lossless library for use by my Squeezeboxes but have a separate library for use by my ipod using 192k lossy files.
I have another computer hooked up to my home network. My thought was to copy the lossless files to the other computer, import it itunes and convert to 192k. The issue I see is I will lose my playlists (correct ?) and of course maintenance of 2 libraries.
Any better suggestions will be greatly appreciated !

Yes, you can definitely do this, although it's a bit complicated with iTunes.
You would need to keep a watchful eye over your import settings (in Edit > Preferences > Advanced > Importing) so that you know when you're going to be creating Apple Lossless files as opposed to AAC files, using the settings you desire.
Also, it would be helpful to display the Kind colum in your iTunes library window so you can easily distinguish between Apple Lossless and AAC versions of your songs. You can do this by going to View > View Options and checking the Kind box.
Then you can do some kind of sorting based on file types, etc. Additionally, you may want to create a specific playlist (this could even be a Smart Playlist based on file type/kind) for your lossy AAC files, for example. Then when you connect your iPod, you can manually select that playlist as the one you want to sync with the iPod. At the same time, your main (visible) iTunes library would display only the Apple Lossless versions of your songs for your usual listening and streaming via AirTunes.
Just to be thorough, since I haven't mentioned it yet, you can convert your Apple Lossless files to AAC by selecting all the Apple Lossless files, setting your encoder to AAC with the desired settings (as described above), and using the Advanced > Convert Selection to AAC menu.

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Can you maintain both lossless and lossy versions of a library?

I want to rip my entire CD collection losslessly to a large external drive for listening in my living room (streaming via an Airport Express). But I also want to down sample the entire library to 160kbs for storing on my iPod. Can iTunes support both versions simultaneously? If so, is there an easy way to get it to down sample every song in my library to 160 kbs?
Is Apple Lossless the only lossless format that will work?
Would it be better to use some software other than iTunes for managing a music library like this?
Thanks.

Yes, you can definitely do this, although it's a bit complicated with iTunes.
You would need to keep a watchful eye over your import settings (in Edit > Preferences > Advanced > Importing) so that you know when you're going to be creating Apple Lossless files as opposed to AAC files, using the settings you desire.
Also, it would be helpful to display the Kind colum in your iTunes library window so you can easily distinguish between Apple Lossless and AAC versions of your songs. You can do this by going to View > View Options and checking the Kind box.
Then you can do some kind of sorting based on file types, etc. Additionally, you may want to create a specific playlist (this could even be a Smart Playlist based on file type/kind) for your lossy AAC files, for example. Then when you connect your iPod, you can manually select that playlist as the one you want to sync with the iPod. At the same time, your main (visible) iTunes library would display only the Apple Lossless versions of your songs for your usual listening and streaming via AirTunes.
Just to be thorough, since I haven't mentioned it yet, you can convert your Apple Lossless files to AAC by selecting all the Apple Lossless files, setting your encoder to AAC with the desired settings (as described above), and using the Advanced > Convert Selection to AAC menu.

Using both lossless and lossy

I recently switched over to an iMac from a PC. I have my music ripped in two formats, FLAC and mp3. I would like to be able to use iTunes to manage both so I can play the lossless rips through my computer and stream to my stereo, but use the mp3s for my ipod. I am willing to convert the FLAC to Apple Lossless if I need to, but I was wondering how I can go about managing this in itunes so that I don't have duplicates of every song in the library and I can easily set things up to use one set of files or another.
I'm not sure how much sense this is making in the translation, so feel free to ask questions if you have any.
Thanks.

Won't that take quite a bit of time to do the conversion every time I want to put new music on the iPod?
Yes, it will take a bit of time.
I keep a few different playlists for use on the iPod.
One is music I always want and one for randomness.
Then I only change the random playlist occasionally so not a lot of time is wasted on converting.
Is there any way to set up 2 separate libraries within iTunes and choose which one I want to use at a given time?
You can but to me, it's much more of a pain as you have two sets of music you need to track. Anything (rating, # of plays, last played, etc.) changed in one will not be reflected in the other.
Hold Option and launch iTunes.
Select *Create library* then select a location for the new library and name is soemthing like *Lossy library*.
Make sure you do NOT select the same as the current location.
To add songs to this new library, set iTunes prefs > general - Importing prefs to what you want.
Then hold Option nand go to iTunes menu Advanced > Convert AAC {this will be what your Import settings are}.
This will add the songs you select. The added songs will be converted and added to this new library in one step (as opposed to adding the songs, converting then deleting the original).

Using lossless and lossy audio

With hard drive storage now comparatively cheap, I've decided to embark on re-ripping my audio CDs in Apple lossless format for use with the AppleTV hooked up to my hi-fi via optical.
I also want to have MP3/AAC versions for use on my iPhone and other portable devices.
As with SD and HD copies of iTunes purchases (from other posts) there's no easy way to configure iTunes just to offer high quality/HD versions to AppleTV.
What I want to do is have both copies in iTunes but only stream/sync Lossless audio to AppleTV while allowing me to sync iphone with MP3/AAC.
Initially thought I'll just create a Smart Playlist to add Kind contains Lossless, and select that for syncing - trouble is I don't really want to sync the playlist - a) because it won't fit, b) because unless I choose 'Show only synced items' it'll stream all the other stuff anyway unless I manually deselect all the compressed audio which would then render that unavailable for the iPhone syncing.
Smart playlists do allow inclusion of unchecked items however so perhaps I could deselect compressed audio checkboxes and sync a playlist of these to iPhone.
Maybe the best would be just to sync iPhone with a different user account.
I'm sure there's an easy answer to this.
Time to play a little.
Anyone have any thoughts on how to best accomplish this.

iTunes is not regarded as the best audio ripper even with error correction.
XLD is one of a couple of apps that use AccureatRip, where it will report a confidence level for a bit perfect copy by comparison of checksums from the rip with rips of the same content from other users - you get encouraging stats that the rips is successful or not.
iTunes is simple and does what it does well, but even if there's only a theoretical benefit using XLD I'll do it that way because I only want to do this lossless rip once.
http://www.accuraterip.com/
Software:
http://www.accuraterip.com/software.htm
There are a couple of Mac options - XLD was the first I came across.
Rip is form the creators of the audio converter Max which is good.
Linn audio recommend dbPowerAmp for windows I think.
They've recently decided to stop making CD players:
http://www.linn.co.uk/gilad_live
Songbook for Mac seems to be a commercial app, but they seem to have software to control the high-end Linn/Naim media players for Mac too.
I often say I'd buy an AppleTv for audio playback alone - it may not be high-end audiophile quality but unlike my audiophile CD player it actually gets used ans sounds pretty good.
Nice offers here though:
http://www.linn.co.uk/discovernewmusic
Glad Apple doesn't use daft names like Klimax though

Bug with items stored both as AAC and lossless in same library

I have an itunes library of 16000 tracks spread across 2 x 250 GB drives encoded as apple lossless.
I have also converted all the tracks to AAC, for ipod and airtunes use, and these tracks live on a 3rd drive
I therefore have 16000 tracks in Apple lossless and 16000 identical titles in AAC in the same iTuneslibrary.
Sometimes when clicking on an AAC title it instantly changes its kind to apple lossless and links to the apple lossless version of the file. When the library updates I often have thousands of AAC tracks changing to the apple lossless references.
I can fix this by emptying the entire library and reimporting all the tracks using add to library. I just did this and again had 16000 of each file type.
I then upgraded iTunes to 7.02 and upon lainch iTunes went into an automatic updating library routine.
After it had finished I had 22000 Apple lossless tracks (i.e 8000 were new duplicate entries) and 8000 AAC tracks
I had previoualy backed up the library after addinf all the files to an empty library so Ieplaced the library and.xml files and reopened itunes.
Itunes openend with the correct number of files, but then immediately went into its updating library routine and again lost track of what should have been an AAC file and what should have been apple lossless
The only thing I can think of is that the database is getting confused because the file extension for apple lossless and AAC is .m4a
I have tried to replicate the problem using a small library on another computer, but can only conclude that the bug only affects large libraries, or libraries spread across multiple disks.
Any help gratefully recieved as having spent 6 months ripping my CD library this problem is driving me mad.
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Mic

When you say they change to lossless, does iTunes
simply think they are lossless or does it actually
convert them to lossless (which would take a minute
or so for each song)?
No the AAC entries change to kind=lossless and they then reference the lossless version of the file. The files themselves remain unchanged, deleting the entire library and then adding the folders to the library restores the original setup
A variation on this behaviour is that merely clicking on an AAC file will immediately change the kind of that file to lossless and the library entry will point to the lossless file. I can't reliably replicate this one, it just happens from time to time.

Managing a Lossless Library for Mac & lossy Library for iPod?

I have all my music on for Home Theatre Mac in Lossless format. There's approx 120GB of songs.
The problem is in order to get this music on my 20GB Ipod I have to mainatin a lossy library on my macbook.
It's a pain ripping eveything twice, is their an easy way to just rip everything to lossless and then convert it to lossy when syncing with my iPod?

You wouldn't have to re-RIP everything, but you'd need to use the "Convert" menuItem. Set iTunes' prefs for the format (likely AAC, but whatever you deire) and quality you want, hilite everything you want on your iPod and select the "Convert To XXX..." menuItem under "Advanced."
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Hi,
I'm currently mid-way through ripping all of my physical CDs to Apple Lossless in their own iTunes Library. I have a second iTunes Library (my original iTunes Library) that has a good deal of music that I no longer have physical copies of. Is there a way to add the music from the old (lossy) library into the new ALAC library without having to go through and manually remove the lossy versions of songs that occur in both libraries (the vast majority).
I understand that this will "contaminate" my lossless library with lossy files, but that's okay. I just want everything that I can in losslesss. That said, I don't want to just ignore or get rid of that other music.
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HT4527 I am trying to move my library and playlists to a new computer by burning to CD's. However, I followed the directions by going to File and then Library - then they said to go to burn CD(s) - I DO NOT have that option for some reason. How do I do th

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