Converting Apple Lossless to 320kbps

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Converting Apple Lossless to 320kbps

Last year I spent a lot of time ripping all my cd's onto my laptop using Apple Lossless. The main reason I wanted to do this was so that I could listen to my music at full quality using my SqueezeBox. I'm heading to medical school, and am not taking my sound system with me. I'll have just my iPod, and lossless quality songs drain the battery too quickly and use up a lot of space.

Can I take my lossless songs on iTunes and convert them to ~320kbps? I would really rather not have to import all my cd's again.

MacBook Pro 2009 13", Mac OS X (10.5.7)

Posted on Jul 27, 2009 9:49 PM

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Niel

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Jul 27, 2009 9:52 PM in response to Sovelin

Open the General section of the iTunes preferences, click on Import Settings, change the default encoder to AAC or MP3 at 320Kbps, select all the songs, and create an AAC or MP3 version of them.

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Sovelin Author

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Jul 27, 2009 10:05 PM in response to Niel

Will it keep the original as well?

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Jul 27, 2009 10:15 PM in response to Sovelin

Yes, it will keep the original.

See this: Convert a Song to a different format, http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1550

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