OK, so I have a 60GB collection of music which is all stored in .flac files.

I have just bought one of the spangley new 3G iPod Touch's, which conveniently means that none of the Winamp plugin's work any more. I would guess that OS 3.x has something to do with this.
I've transcoded some of my music with Winamp into .aac files but iTunes refuses to recognise it as a music file, so I can't sync any of my existing collection without ripping it all straight from the CD's again, which I would like to avoid as I don't have the CD's for all of my digital collection. I also don't have weeks spare to sit around changing discs.

Does anyone know of any transcoding software which will create a .aac file that iTunes will play with, or alternatively a Winamp Plugin which will work. I'm currently using ml_ipod as the standard pmp_ipod plugin doesn't even detect that there is an iPod attached.

Joe

rename the iphone dll in winamp and try again.... worked for me (was itunes 9 at fault)

And if that doesn't work (I should point out I know bugger all about such things ), Super C is a free download that handles nearly all conversion needs IME

Sounds like a plausible fix, but I don't appear to have iphone.dll in any of the winamp folders. Is it a plug-in I need to download? Cause it doesn't appear to be on winamp.com.

Joe

That SUPER C is quite a find, thanks for that.

Only problem is then getting the AAC files onto the iPod, How do I get iTunes to recognise the files as it's own.

I'd like to avoid adding the AAC's to my Winamp library as I will then have 2 of everything. Winamp isn't playing nice with the iPod atm anyway.

Joe

Just a thought, why not just transcode to .mp3, which iTunes and Winamp will be happy with, instead of .aac?

It's in the folder the dlls for your ipod etc are

I had it in media monkey... which is winamp++ essentially

I'm getting somewhere now. I've given up with Winamp, but the stuff that I'm transcoding is appearing in the iTunes library.

Now to the problem. Is there a transcoding program that I can point at my Music folder and just tell to transcode it all to a another folder but keep the internal folder structure of the original music folder?

Cause the way I'm doing it atm is very time consuming. Essentially creating the file structure myself in explorer then populating it album by album from the transcoder.

Joe

Not sure how you're doing, but if you use Media Monkey (V3.1.2.1267 on) then a, you get no hassles with ipod sync without having to mess with .dll files and b, you can set it to automatically convert flac into an ipod readable format (I use mp3 at 192k or above) on the fly as you synch your selected files, I speak from just having put my flac ripped Beatles stereo tracks onto my ipod this week.

Just looked in options and will only convert incompatible formats to mp3, wma, ogg, wav and flac of which at least 3 are incompatible!