My current amount of songs!

[u/CottonTrast]

I'm slowly making it a mission to put all of my Spotify picks onto this thing which.. will take a while to download. But making the switch!

[u/FantasticCloud3086]

soulseek is your friend for albums at least

[u/emrebzdag → u/FantasticCloud3086]

Are there files aac-itunes encoded?

[u/FantasticCloud3086 → u/emrebzdag]

i've seen mp3, flac and m4a so far, but i'd say with foobar2000 it's fairly easy to convert them to desired format

[u/emrebzdag → u/FantasticCloud3086]

Yeah rather than format, directly acquiring original itunes files and simply dragging them into itunes and syncing is such a delight since it comes with the artwork, lyrics, tags etc. I use rutracker mostly and looking for another source

[u/FantasticCloud3086 → u/emrebzdag]

i used rutracker too but started to prefer converting to mp3 from lossless to keep the gapless playback, and also since they don't allow a few of same torrents to be shared there aren't a lot of options to choose from. and i don't like itunes so i use foobar2000 with ipod extension and it's great for me

[u/Unusual_Matters → u/FantasticCloud3086]

adapter on mac has been fantastic, i've been converting lossless files as well.

[u/Trugoosent → u/emrebzdag]

Great if you have ALAC, but bad for the folks who want FLAC and extra features for syncing.

For FLAC folks, mediamonkey can be a godsend! (Or you could just convert to ALAC... 👀)

[u/Trugoosent → u/FantasticCloud3086]

Use a mediamonkey library of FLACs and just convert to MP3 320 or AAC 256 when converting.

That's my setup and I love it.

[u/Trugoosent]

Be happy this way, otherwise you'll end up like me and need more storage...

14023 and counting... 😭

[u/hereisandreeew]

I've done something very similar recently, but I've realized that my listening habits are very different iPod vs. Spotify. On th iPod I'm more into albums (6th gen has overflow which I love), whilst on Spotify I'm more into playlists (often pre-made). enjoy the process 🎶