iTunes Now Lets You Sync Higher Quality Audio to Your iOS Devices

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Posted March 12, 2012 at 6:52pm by iClarified

iTunes 10.6 brings a new option to choose higher quality audio conversion bitrates when syncing music to your iOS device, reports AppleInsider.

Previously, you were only given the option to down-convert audio to 128 kbps for sync to the iPhone, iPad, or iPod. Now you can also choose from 192 kbps or 256 kbps.

The iTunes Store typically encodes purchases at 256 kbps but higher quality audio can be imported into iTunes manually.

iTunes Now Lets You Sync Higher Quality Audio to Your iOS Devices

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harry pottar02 - March 21, 2012 at 6:30am

If anyone is roughly to grade to iTunes 10.6, don't! It instrument not opened, and when it does it the meet quits and gives you an happening message. I've searched the forums and it seems to be a uncouth difficulty. I've proven re-installing but the comparable action happens. I've proven reverting to 10.5.3, but no no, that custom wreak either. Unusable.

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poop - March 12, 2012 at 7:32pm

Just a heads up, this is a bad idea unless you're really pressed for storage space/don't care about the quality of your music. Converting from a compressed (lossy) format (anything that isn't FLAC, ALAC, WAV, or AIFF) is a transcode (shitty quality). Wouldn't recommend it.

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Sameer - March 12, 2012 at 7:29pm

Wait. So if I have a lot of music that's 320 kbps, my iPhone downgrades the quality?

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Thunderbyte - March 12, 2012 at 8:52pm

No, iTunes down-converts the music when you sync it with an iOS device.

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Alejandro Iván - March 12, 2012 at 10:35pm

No, it won't. Your music is transcoded when you sync your iDevice (and it will do it for every iDevice you sync). It takes a long time, depending on your music library. Another way to do it is selecting all the songs you want to sync in your music library and force to convert them in the "Advanced -> Create AAC version" menu. 256kbps AAC is almost the same quality (even better) than 320kbps MP3. The thing is, if you translate from a compressed format (like MP3, AAC, MP2, etc.) to another compressed format, you will ALWAYS lose quality (but the majority of people will not notice that quality drop). If you want the maximum quality possible, encode from uncompressed audio formats (like FLAC, WAV, etc.). NOTE: When you create AAC versions in iTunes, they appear as a second file with the same tags in iTunes. You should enable the "Type" tab in your music library to see what format is each file. If you have a 256kbps, as I said before, it will be better than MP3 (if you encoded it from uncompressed format), so you can delete the other file (MP3) to avoid your iPhone from syncing that song twice.

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Sameer - March 23, 2012 at 3:33am

Thanks for the response!

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