Fit more music on your iPod shuffle

This is a cool tip that I think I heard about once upon a time, but which quickly slipped out of my brain. In case the same happened to you, I thought I'd point to it here.

 You can set iTunes to automagically convert high quality songs into 128kbps AAC files, so you can squeeze more songs into each square inch of the shuffle.  Here's how: "Connect iPod shuffle, open the iPod Preferences dialog, and click the iPod tab. Click the check box next to 'Convert higher bit rate songs to 128 kbps AAC for this iPod.' Then click OK." This also leaves the songs in the higher format on your Mac. 

Pretty cool. Saw this on my friend Jason Ball's site; he found it in yesterday's Apple enews.