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First and foremost, I love iTunes. It has to be one of the (if not the) most used apps on my 27-inch iMac and my 17-inch MacBook Pro. I mean, come on, damn near everyone uses iTunes. In the recent update, however, I have been experiencing issues when enabling the conversion of songs to 128kbps AAC format, which I might add saved over 4GB on my 32GB iPhone, 64GB ipad and 64GB iPod touch. Sacrificing a teeny tiny bit of sound quality saved me all that space on all my iDevices. However, seems like the iTunes software keeps converting the songs after the have already been converted every time I sync my iPhone, iPod or iPad, making the syncing progress rather long when a typical sync is usually snappy. I thought that I was the only one having this problem until a friend of mind heard me talking to myself asking “I wonder why iTunes keeps doing this?” while I was enjoying my Caramel Macchiato in Starbucks. He mentioned to me that he was experiencing the same issue. On top of that, I recently have been getting a few emails from my friends mentioning the issue.

Then the good folks over at Mac OS X Hints found out what the culprit was before I could find it. Apparently, MOSH (Mac OS X Hints) discovered that the issue arises because iTunes continuously changes the conversion date of the songs that have been already converted after you play them. Good news is, if you are experiencing the same issue that me and my circle is having, you don’t have to wait for Apple to issue an update through Software Update. In fact, you can download it right now.

First, to know whether or not you are having (if you haven’t already noticed) or are going to have this problem when you choose to convert your songs to conserve space on your device, do the following:

Open iTunes

Go to the Menu Bar and select About iTunes?

When the About iTunes panel appears, check for the version and the build number. If your version is iTunes 9.1.1 (11), you have the iTunes firmware that doesn’t have that wrinkled ironed out yet.

To get the iTunes update that has that issue resolved, do the following:

Go to apple.com/itunes

Click on the free download? button and download the iTunes software from the site.

Install the software…

…and you’re done!

This version of iTunes doesn’t reveal itself in Mac OS X’s Software Update, for some odd reason. However, once you download it, sync your iDevice to you Mac or PC and then you should notice the reconversion error no longer shows its face. Your back to the zippy sync sessions that iTunes usually puts out. We here at MacApper just thought that we should fill you guys in on that. Enjoy!

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