iTunes Enhancement Request

I just submitted the following to Apple on their iTunes Feedback page:

Subject: Please enable on-the-fly conversion when syncing

Much of the music in my library is in Apple Lossless format, but that means I can’t fit much of it on my iPhone. My options are to either live with it or convert some albums to MP3, meaning I’ve got duplicate data in my library taking up space on my laptop.

Please make it possible to have iTunes convert Apple Lossless files to MP3 on-the-fly while syncing to my iPhone! I understand that this can make syncs take much more time, but I’m cool with that. And if you need to hide the feature somehow, or just put it into an “advanced” section, that’s fine.

Thanks!