iPod On the fly downsampling of music for iPod?

[btgordon]

Hey Guys-

I use a PC (soon to be a MBP) and I keep all my music as apple lossless files, which take up a lot of space on my HD. Is there anyway to load them into itunes and have them automaticall downsampled to a smaller .aac file for the iPod so they don't take up as much space? If it is only able to be done on a mac, that isn't a big deal since I will have one in my hands in a week.

Thanks a lot

 

[Sesshi]

As far as I'm aware, no. There might be a script for it although I doubt it... look up Doug's Applescripts for iTunes.

I'm surprised no ingenious person has come out with a plugin which makes a regular iPod masquerade as a Shuffle, as that allows for downsampling on the fly.

 

[Danksi]

Having used a 1Gb Shuffle for the past year, I finally decided knowing what I was listening to would occasionally be useful, so just recently received a refurb'd Nano 2Gb and was a little disappointed to see the 128AAC option wasn't available as it is for the Shuffle (although I understand the 1Gb Nano *may* have the option too?)

2Gb is plenty for most of the week's use, but it'd be extra useful to have the same 128AAC option.

 

[theBB]

I have not tested this myself, but this looks like what you need. It took me a while to locate it:

http://www.dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=losslessaccworkflow

 

[Chundles]

(although I understand the 1Gb Nano *may* have the option too?)

Nope, it doesn't. Pity, because it's a really handy feature.

 

[btgordon]

I have not tested this myself, but this looks like what you need. It took me a while to locate it:

http://www.dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=losslessaccworkflow

Thanks a ton, that looks just perfect!
Once I get my new mac, I will let everyone know how well it works.

 

[EGT]

On the fly down sampling (custom settings of course) would be such a great iTunes + iPod feature. I just don't understand why it's not already in iTunes.

Question: When iTunes down samples to the shuffle is the music copied/converted on computer, then to the iPod or is it transferred directly to the iPod?