[reemas]

i have a nice speaker system at home and most of my audio comes from good sources including cds. so when i import them to my hard drive, i try to retain some of the quality and my compression is minimal. the result is a large file size.

now that i have an ipod, i'd like to recompress whatever i import to something more manageable. any advice on how to do this?

thanks!

[lavar78]

Apple Lossless will cut the uncompressed song roughly in half. As the name says, it's totally lossless.

[reemas]

problem is a lot of my songs are mp3 or aac at 320 kbps resulting in a 4 min song at 8MB a file. i'd like to drop them to about 128 when copying over the the ipod. is this at all possible? some kinda script or tool?

i hope apple thought of this, but i'm guessing i'm the only who needs it.

[lavar78]

The iPod shuffle can do that automatically. Check out http://www.dougscripts.com for some AppleScripts for other iPods.