I have a lot of high bitrate and VBR files, which was great until my iPod got filled up by 3,893 songs.
I know that the "force conversion" feature can make them all 160kbps (or whatever else I like), but I have a few questions about how it works.
1). The files on my computer remain unchanged, right? Does it just convert them and put them straight on the iPod, later deleting any temp files that it might have needed to create?
2). If a song is already on there at 320kbps or VBR, do I have to delete it and choose all of my files that I want to send to the iPod again, enabling the "forced conversion?" Is there an easier way? So far, I haven't been using playlists or smartlists to upload, and i've been "sending" instead of "syncing."
3). Is there a way to have a smartlist for each artists that contains all songs by that artist without manually creating each one? I couldn't figure one out from the help file.
I tried searching the forum to find past threads that could help me, but I didn't have much luck. If anybody could either reply here, or point me in the direction of a thread that has answers, I would be grateful.