Is there a way to use the Genius feature on my 80 GB Ipod Classic? [more inside]
posted by vernondalhart on Jun 29, 2009 - 12 answers

What's the best way to organize and re-tag my enormous MP3 library? (iTunes, Mac 10.5, 20k+ songs) [more inside]
posted by cosmic osmo on Jun 15, 2008 - 21 answers

ItunesFilter: I have too much music! Help me manage my XML iTunes library! [more inside]
posted by damiano99 on Sep 12, 2007 - 16 answers

Can anyobdy help with automatically converting MP3's to AAC's in iTunes WITHOUT duplicating the file? [more inside]
posted by mjlondon on Jan 27, 2007 - 21 answers

Any good iPod alternatives that support aac?
posted by jsbww on Nov 21, 2005 - 30 answers

What's the best way to regularly back up 10-15 gigs of music? [more inside]
posted by selfnoise on Jun 16, 2005 - 16 answers

Do you think that 128kbps AAC files are good enough? [more inside]
posted by nickerbocker on Mar 31, 2005 - 19 answers

Waugh! (Pronounced the Snoopy way or the Evelyn way.) My iTunes will no longer burn AAC files onto CD. I've followed Fearless Leader's lead and de-DMRed all my Apple Music Store purchases with hymn, but I can't burn protected songs that have been hymned, protected songs that haven't been hymned or unprotected songs that used to be hymned. (I guess I didn't try an AAC rip since I mostly rip to mp3, so there's a missing data point.) When I go to burn a playlist, it deselects all the AAC tracks, although it will burn mp3s made from unprotected AAC files. Does anyone know what's up? Is there another Mac app for making audio CDs from AAC files? I'm not much of an audiofile, but don't want to go through the quality loss of converting 128 kbps AAC to 128 kbps mp3 for all these songs.
posted by blueshammer on Dec 8, 2004 - 3 answers

PC verson of iTunes: all my mp3 & aac files are on my C drive, which is almost full. I want to lighten the load on that drive by moving all the songs to my E drive, which has much more space. Is there a way to do this without wrecking iTune's database? I don't want to have to re-import everything.
posted by grumblebee on Oct 21, 2004 - 6 answers

iTunes question..what's the best way to turn protected AACs into regular AACs for a large amount of files?
posted by tetsuo on Sep 9, 2004 - 14 answers

I've been buying my wife tracks from iTunes and putting them on her Archos Jukebox. Since the Archos doesn't accept the aac format, I have to burn them from Archos onto CDs and then rip the CDs back into my PC and then download the ripped files onto her Jukebox. (I don't feel like I'm cheating Apple out of revenue, because only my wife listens to this music.) [More Inside.] [more inside]
posted by grumblebee on Sep 2, 2004 - 35 answers

If I rip my CDs with iTunes, and select the "AAC Encoder," will the files be any less portable than MP3s? Can most MP3 player apps/devices handle them? Are they all intrinsically copy-protected? Are there real quality benefits? (I'm asking on behalf of someone who has already invested serious time in ripping, using iTunes' - you guessed it - default settings).
posted by scarabic on Feb 3, 2004 - 15 answers