Re-ripping tunes at higher quality

[Quoman]

I bought a 160Gb classic iPod recently and have just finished loading all my stuff onto it. I find that I have some spare capacity and would like to re-rip some stuff at a higher bit-rate (originally it was 160 - I would like to up this to 320 now).

If I do this and replace the 160 files on i-Tunes with the 320 ones, will the 'sync'ing process be smart enough to detect that these are different files and copy them to my iPod and overwrite the old 160 ones there? Or does the software just compare say the artist and song name for example and if they are the same then do not execute a transfer - thus leaving the old 160 file untouched on the iPod.

If that is the case I guess the only way to force the new 320 files onto the iPod is to firstly delete it on I-tunes, sync, re-rip at 320 and re-sync ?

Any suggestions ?

Thanks in advance.

Brian.

 

[professorhat]

Depends how you sync your iPod. If you create a new playlist and put all the 320 files into this, then tell the iPod only to sync that playlist, you'll only get the 320 files. If you're syncing your entire library then I'm pretty sure you'll get both the 160 and the 320 files on there. I would probably recommend deleting the 160 files if you don't need them.

 

[Anonymous]

I've just done this with some tracks.

when you import the cd itunes askes you if you want to keep or replace the existing tracks. If you replace and have your ipod set to automatically sync then it will replace them no problem, but if you hve it on manual management you will need to sync it.

I did find that Tom Waits real gone had its tracks messed up though due to slightly different naming conventions on the data iot first found for the disc and the second time so watch out for that.