Is there a way to down-convert songs on-the-fly when syncing from iTunes to iPod?

Hmmm… I’ve never heard of a way to do this. The only thing I can think of is to mass-select your Apple Lossless files and convert to mp3 (just by right-clicking on them, the option should hopefully show up). However this is a rather slow method that definitely would not be considered “on the fly.” Probably can’t do it while syncing your iPod, either.

Sorry! Good luck with this.

Are you really that short on time that you have to do this on the fly? I think @ParaParaYukiko is right, you’re just going to have to do it the slow way.

Didn’t know you could do this on the shuffle. I know you can auto-fill the shuffle and they’ve recently expanded this feature to all iPods. To do this click on your iPod, click manually manage music, go to the music tab and click autofill at the bottom right.

There is no way to convert Audio files on the fly no matter what software you are using, the file has to be processed then rendered and would still take just as long as it would to do it “The Slow” way….