What techniques for storing high quality & low size songs in iTunes

I use iTunes with an 80gb ipod for music on my Home Theater system. For this, I'd like to use Apple Lossless files (higher quality & I can afford the big files).
For the family iPods, I'd like to use 320kbps (good enough for iPods & small file size).
What are good techniques for keeping both size files on my iMac? I'd like this to be as simple as possible.

This is often asked and there is not any simple technique. The choices are to either keep two separate libraries (that would be my preference), or to keep separate playlists within a single library.
Note that once you get set up, any new files you add to the library will have to be manually handled to make sure that the 320 version gets added to the additional library/playlists.

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