I have a very large collection of cassettes and CD's which I have been loading into iTunes for almost a year now.
My iPod Classic can not store all the songs in my iTunes library.
I am using Excel to determine how many bytes make up the songs I have selected to store on my iPod.
iTunes allows the user to select or unselect each song
First I sorted my iTunes library by clicking the column header with the check mark icon
Second, I copied all checked songs and pasted into Excel
Third I sorted the Excel worksheet to measure the total bytes in my library and compared that total to the available file storage capacity of my iPod Classic
I am now going back into iTunes to unselect more songs
If anyone knows an easier way to accomplish this task, please let me know
1. If you switch iTunes to "View as album list", it shows at the bottom of the screen how many songs, how much time, and how much memory you have selected.
2. If you plug in the iPod, and click on it under "Devices", iTunes shows at the bottom of the screen the capacity of the iPod, how much is filled, how much you are trying to put on it, and how much you are over capacity. And under Summary, Options you can pick "Convert higher bitrate songs to 256KBit", or "Convert higher bitrate songs to 192KBit", or "Convert higher bitrate songs to 128KBit" to fit more music.