Too much music Library dilema

Okay here is the problem, I own a macbook pro and a iphone 16gb and I have been using itunes to manage my music for a very long time and my library has grown into thousands of songs.
Now, Is there a way to convert my music down to fit more on my iphone yet maintain my high bit-rate that I used to rip my CD's.
I was thinking of converting all my music and having two of all my songs, high bit-rate(for playing on my stereo system) & and converted bit-rate(for my iphone) but I do not want genius to mess up and a crazily duplicated library.
Any ideas would be GREATLY appreciated!
Angel-

I suggest investing in an external drive - preferably a firewire drive that is plenty large enough to create two iTunes libraries - one to be synced with your iPhone, and the other for your high bit rate music. You can make use of a utility called iTunes Library Manager to quickly switch between more than one iTunes library. You can keep the iTunes library to be synced with your iPhone only on your Mac, and the other library with all your high bit rate music that takes up the most storage space on your external drive - or place both libraries on your external drive. I recently transferred my entire iTunes library to an external firewire drive since I was running low on storage space with my PB.
http://dougscripts.com/itunes/itinfo/ituneslibrarymanager.php

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