I may have to try it then. For high rez, I've been making everything AIFF in dbpoweramp, then importing to iTunes, then making it 24bit ALAC iirc.
I've not bothered converting any high rez for a while now because of this.
On a side note, I'm thinking of trying this this weekend for the hell of it.
So far I've only converted stuff in windows, as I heard Max has problems converting stuff to alac. I've never tried it in max.
Its a mixture of un-extracted RARs, flac tracks, ape tracks, and album images in either flac or ape w/ cue sheets.
Another Western Digital My Passport Essential 500 GB from the HC amazon link.
I've got a 320 full of new music that I have yet to convert to ALAC for my Drobo. Not looking forward to that