The .m4a extension is indeed the same for AAC and Apple Lossless files, as both audio formats are "wrapped" in an MPEG-4 container. I, too, have no idea what that means ;-)
What are you running iTunes / SC on; Mac or PC? Either way, it's possible to use iTunes to manage two or more libraries. On a PC, when you double-click to run iTunes, hold down your shift key. That'll get you a dialogue box, and from there you can create a new iTunes library, complete with its own folder structure. Then use one of these libraries for your iPod stuff, and another for your SC stuff. Tell SC the loaction of the iTunes .lib file that manages your Lossless stuff and you're good, everything's filtered. I find that having to remember which stuff to add to which iTunes lib is a pain if I decide to blow the libraries away and start again, so i'd recommend that you think about moving SC stuff into its own folder structure, and your iPod stuff into another. eg here's mine... M:\Music\iPod\ contains my iPod only iTunes library files, and M:\Music\iPod\iTunes Music contains all my mp3 and aac stuff M:\Music\SqueezeCenter\ contains my SqueezeCenter only iTunes library files, and M:\Music\iPod\iTunes Music contains all my Apple Lossless stuff ..if you're running on a Mac, Google Doug's applescripts - there's a nice one that lets you switch libs from within iTunes itself. EDIT: ah, you're on a mac. Even easier for you, no holding down Shift or whatever that's called on a Mac ;-) -- moley6knipe Win XP Pro SP3 > dBpoweramp Reference 13.1 > SqueezeCenter 7.2.1 > Squeezebox 3 > ears ------------------------------------------------------------------------ moley6knipe's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10014 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=55151 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
