AIC apple lossless not compadiable with iPod Classic 160GB?

Gah, I just read the last 12 pages of this forum. Not one question on music format (

Man, iTunes and iPods are frustrating beyond belief! I almost chucked this thing out the window. Got so sick of reseting this iPod back to factory settings and trying another format. Each time it wouldn't play any songs at all. AAC, AiFF or MP3's. I could hear the harddrive starting to spin then a click and stop over and over again. Finally I reset the iPod back and just put on AAC files. Now it plays again. Back to square one. Hours and hours of effort first trying to get ALAC to work then lately trying to get AiFF to work.

I tried AIFF 24bit 88hz, then AIFF 24bit 48hz then AIFF 24bit 44.1hz then I had iTunes do the auto convert to AIFF 16bit 88hz. Why would iTunes auto convert to AIFF when the iPod doesnt even play it??? Not only that, but it makes the entire iPod unusable so that not even the AAC and MP3 files on the device not play??????

Now I have it back to factory reset with just crappy AAC files on it. Tonight Im going to try AIFF 16bit 44.1hz files. If that doesnt work this peice of crap iPod is going on craigslist for the next sucker to play with. Its brand new 7th gen iPod 160gb. Now im wishing I tried the iPod Nano, the litature says it plays more formats. Probably a bunch of lies as usual.

This is copied from the APPLE website

Audio formats supported: AAC (8 to 320 Kbps), Protected AAC (from iTunes Store), HE-AAC, MP3 (8 to 320 Kbps), MP3 VBR, Audible (formats 2, 3, 4, Audible Enhanced Audio, AAX, and AAX+), Apple Lossless, AIFF, and WAV

I see that this APPLE website confirms that this iPod will not support any frequency over 44.1hz. So tahts confirmed. But I still can't get AIFF to work. Also, what is Apple Lossless??? AIFF?

Compatible codecs
iPod can play songs encoded with these codecs:

• MP3 (from 32 Kbps to 320 Kbps)
• MP3 Variable Bit Rate (VBR)
• AIFF *
• WAV (with no compression)
• The following require iPod software 1.3 or later:
  • M4A AAC *
  • M4P AAC (Protected) *
  • M4B AAC (iTunes Store Spoken Word files) *
• The following require iPod software 2.2 or later or iPod mini 1.1 or later:

  Apple Lossless Encoder

* Requires iTunes 4 or iTunes 4 for Windows. AAC files also require the most recent update to the iPod software.

Compatible sample rates

iPod can play songs with the these sample rates, and with all compatible codecs:

• 8 kHz
• 11.025 kHz
• 16 kHz
• 22.050 kHz
• 32 kHz
• 44.1 kHz

Audible Spoken Word files

iPod Software 1.2 and later can play Audible spoken word files in formats 2, 3, and 4. These files have the filename extension, ".aa".

iTunes 4 and iTunes 4 for Windows work with Audible spoken word files.

Incompatible codecs

iPod cannot play songs that use these audio formats:

• snd
• QuickTime
• MP2
• MP1
• WAV with compression
• WMA and WMA Protected
• any other format not in the Compatible codecs list

If you copy a song that uses one of the incompatible codecs from your iTunes Library to iPod, you can select the song on iPod, but it will not play. Instead, iPod skips to the next song in the playlist.

Well, sigh, I reconverted all my 24bit 192hz HDTracks.com music files to AIFF 16bit 44.1hz format. Those files are playing on my iPod...Its too bad we dont have anyone on here answering these questions. I went thru **** and back trying to figure this all out and im an IT professional and been messing with programs and files for 20 years. Just not the Apple stuff. Its all abotu windows in the real world.

I dont understand why I just didn't convert to WAVE format instead of messing around with AIFF format. I dont see the benefit.