That does not sound to bad Eric, so by doing this I will have two copies on my hard drive, one lossless (or higher bitrate) and one at the lower bitrate that I synched to the Ipod?

Or, is there some way when you make a copy to have it copy to the IPOD, or can you drag/drop? Just looking for options.

I was thinking about using MP3 320 CBR for my main copies, as from what I have read in blind tests, most people can't tell the difference between anything above 256 and CD quality.

For the Ipod copy I would probably use 128kps VBR

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