how can i tell if a song is an mp3,4 or lossless in iTunes
In my iTunes library i would like to upgrade my songs to lossless is there a way to do this?
MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2009), OS X El Capitan (10.11.2)
In my iTunes library i would like to upgrade my songs to lossless is there a way to do this?
MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2009), OS X El Capitan (10.11.2)
Are you going to rerip these from CD?
If displaying columns you can choose the option to show "kind", or you can look at the summary information for a track in Get Info.
Note, saving a file to a higher format will not increase quality. If anything you risk losing more quality. The only way to get lossless quality is to re-rip your CDs or find a vendor who sells lossless files (Apple does not)..
You can use Smart Playlists to filter your library against any combination of Kind - using values:
and Bit Rate. For example, this:
will show all MP3 files whose bit rate is less than 256kpbs. This (for my library, at least) will show everything that is not lossless:
As Chris hints, the only way to "upgrade" media to lossless is to re-import it from CD or from lossless files. Converting from AAC or MP3 to ALAC or AIFF will just give bigger files with no improvement to audio.
how can i tell if a song is an mp3,4 or lossless in iTunes