Same songs in Lossless and AAC in iTunes - is that possible ?

[CHSeifert]

Hey,

I have 600 GB Apple Lossless songs, which I would like to play in my Itunes library along with the other AAC and Mp3 songs I have there also.

Problem is when I need to have some of my lossless songs on my Iphone player, I need to convert them into AAC format so they take up less space - but is it possible to have the same songs in two fomats in iTunes and how can I make a system like Sonos see this

 

[alust2013]

It is possible to have the songs in two formats on iTunes, although I don't know how Sonos would deal with it.

 

[TMRaven]

I know iTunes can definitely do it. Not sure about sonos.

 

[CHSeifert]

It is possible to have the songs in two formats on iTunes, although I don't know how Sonos would deal with it.

I know iTunes can definitely do it. Not sure about sonos.

Thanks

I would like to isolate the songs I have and use on my Iphone 4 32GB into one separate folder/directory - so that I know these songs are for my Iphone ONLY, meaning they won't contain any lossless files, which takes up too much space on my 32 GB limited Iphone 4 music player.

Is this possible ?

I could in theory have my full music folder on my 2 TB Time Capsule for my Sonos and then have the music I only use for my Iphone on my internal HDD drive in my iMac...... maybe this is the solution, so the music does not get mixed up !?!

 

[AdrianK]

So you have ALAC and AAC in iTunes, and you just want to sync AAC to iPhone, correct?

What you can do is create a new Smart Playlist (hold alt and press the cog in the bottom left), and set it to include songs with a bitrate of >320. You'll also want to enable 'live updating', or whatever it's called. You can then choose to sync your iPhone with only that playlist

 

[CHSeifert]

In short what I want is:

Complete music library on my TimeCapsule 2 TB (containing my 750 GB Mp3/AAC music and my 600 GB Apple Lossless music)

Separate music library exclusively for my iPhone 4 with the best 5 start tracks from my Apple Lossless music collection converted to AAC 256 and the best 5 start tracks from my Mp3/AAC library.

I will use the complete music library on my Time Capsule on both my Sonos music system and on my iMac

Is this possible