Or, if you'd like to be able to listen to those songs on your Shuffle, you could go to preferences and check "Convert higher bitrate songs to 128 kbps AAC for this iPod." iTunes will convert the higher quality songs on the fly as it fills your iPod Shuffle. It will not alter the original file; this is only for filling your iPod Shuffle.
That feature, at the moment, is only avalible through the iPod shuffle, however it will most likely be implemented in all ipods in a later iTunes release.
kurly: This is a question relating to dynamic updating of SPL’s using the following criteria (as an example):
•Grouping Contains: .p/a.
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Or, if you'd like to be able to listen to those songs on your Shuffle, you could go to preferences and check "Convert higher bitrate songs to 128 kbps AAC for this iPod." iTunes will convert the higher quality songs on the fly as it fills your iPod Shuffle. It will not alter the original file; this is only for filling your iPod Shuffle.
Check this link out for more info:
http://playlistmag.com/weblogs/todayatplaylist/2005/01/ipodshufffirst/index.php