How do I change my collection to a lossy format?

[beherenow]

I filled my 30gig photo with full quality wav files (not hard to do). I want to change the format to fit more songs, what is the easiest way to do that? Clear out the whole thing and start a new? I changed the import setting to AAC but no change in format. I was reading a post about incoders, like nero and winamp, just kind of confused. My files are almost all flac, then converted to wav then I have to convert to AAC? Just curious if I have to wipe the whole thing or if I can change the format in itunes? If the ipod supported FLAC it would make my life so much easier.

[kornchild2002]

iTunes can convert the WAV files to the AAC format for you. Just highlight all your wav files, right-click on them then left-click "Convert Selection to AAC" All you need to do is change your import settings to AAC, which you have already done. Changing the import settings changes the quality and file type of which iTunes will rip a CD to your iTunes library. As long as your wav files are tagged correctly, through iTunes as a wav file can't hold a ID tag, then you will just have to follow the steps I listed above.

If you want to, you can trash your entire library and re-rip all your CD's. But you don't have to as iTunes will convert wav files to the AAC format or even the mp3 format.

[wyneken]

Keep in mind that this procedure, which is really easy and quick, will create a duplicate copy of each of your songs -- so now you have both WAV and AAC (or mp3) files in your iTunes library. You can decide what to do about that -- like maybe you want to keep the high-quality files on your computer but delete them from the iPod, replacing them with the compressed files. In any case, this is probably going to be a manual operation unless somebody has written a script to automate it.

[beherenow]

thx for the help. It takes a while to compress huh? My speed has been around 8x what is the standard? I know it depends on the system, but curious as to what others are clockin.