I personally am a complete freak about having my whole iTunes library (30 GB+) perfectly formatted, and put in a lot of time to keep the files conformed. In order to deal with formatting thousands of songs and videos, I use a few tricks. One trick is the powerful Smart Playlists feature in iTunes.
If you want to find all of your non-MP3 or non-AAC (whichever format you prefer) files and convert them from their current state, you can set up a convenient little Smart Playlist that lets you deal with this.
Simply press File, then “New Smart Playlist….” (On Mac, the keyboard shortcut is Command-Option-N.) In the criteria menu, specify “Kind,” “is not,” and then type in your preferred format. This will create a live-updating playlist of all the songs that are not in your preferred format that need fixing. Annoyingly, iTunes names the playlist after the format you disapprove of, so you’ll probably want to add a “Non-” prefix to the beginning.
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