Title says it all. I just noticed the option in itunes and have no idea what it means. Can anyone shed some light on the situation?
Title says it all. I just noticed the option in itunes and have no idea what it means. Can anyone shed some light on the situation?
Since the shuffle is fairly low on memory (compared to the other iPods) iTunes offers to re-transcode songs to a lower bitrate when syncing them to your shuffle. This causes each song to take up roughly 1/2 the space on the shuffle that it takes up on your Mac/PC. If you have good ears you might be able to tell that the song doesn't sound as good, so iTunes doesn't do it unless you tell it to. It only offers if you have the newer iTunes+ songs or songs you ripped from CD yourself using Apple's AAC encoding at 256 kilobits per second, and will make sure they only take up 128 kilobits per second while on your shuffle.
man, i want your apple collection! you must be broke, iphone 4, ipod touch, ipod shuffle, ipad, macbook mini, macbook pro! i am so jealous, what do you do to get sooo much money?
yeah, i still don't get this option. converting lossy files to lossy again? it will sound terrible. though if you have ALAC i guess it's not that big of a deal...but still, you should be able to convert to 256 or 320 AAC if you want to. :/
To save space. Rather simple. Sometimes having the music is better than the sound quality of the music. Especially when excersing or at work.