Conversion AIFF to Apple Lossless in iTunes 9.0.2

[Nostromo]

I still have a great number of AIFF files in my music library.

I'd like to convert them to Apple Lossless, as it's the same sound quality at half the space.

I know you can create a copy of any file in another format, but it sounds quite complicated. First you have to create a copy, and then you need to delete the "original" AIFF file.

Can't I just convert an existing file without a copy, keeping also the play counts?

Thanks.

 

[Forsaken]

Well, what I do is shift + click to select all the files I want to convert then go to Advanced > Make *insert file type here* and then when all the files are converted, the original files in their original file types will still be selected (whilst the newly converted files not be highlighted). Hit delete and you'll be done.

 

[Nostromo]

Thanks.

The trick seems to lie in doing it in the library panel, where you can actually delete the files, versus selecting the songs in a playlist.