I have my music library currently all FLAC format.

I now have an Ipod and I need to convert to AAC for itunes.

I am sure this is a common item, I searched and tried various programs.
None seem to work without errors.

Can someone give me some direction or suggestions for software?
I am really trying to stay away from Nero, I don't really like any of their software.

foobar2000 or dbpoweramp both do nice jobs. I maintain FLAC files that I convert to mp3 (lame) for IPOD/ITUNES purposes and this works perfectly.

I am trying to use foobar with itunesencoder

It does convert to AAC but the filename is tempiwyewqnslkadnhjakdsa

i've seen lots of discussion on these boards related to use of itunesencode, etc. I suspect if you search the forums you'll find lots of useful info. I don't convert to AAC, so can't help you there. But if you are not tied to AAC, you'll likely find that converting your FLAC files to mp3 (lame) at, say, -V5 will be a nice compromise between space and quality for use on the IPOD.

I was able to get it to work.
But it is not creating the correct folders and song locations in my itunes folder.

It creates the album folder, puts one song in it.
Then creates all the other songs in the root directory.

Will itunes later clean this up?

Does this include the Nero AAC encoder? It seems that using foobar with the Nero encoder would make things a lot easier for you.

AFAIK the Nero encoder can make iTunes-compatible M4A files.

I am using the itunesencoder.

I need to try the nero one. Is it free?

Yes, it is 100% free. You can download from Nero's NeroDigital website here.

If artist and album tags are correct and ITUNES option to automatically organize files is "on" then itunes will automatically put all the song files in the directory format:

itunesmusicfolder (whatever you've set)/Artist/Album/...all separate songs
EDIT: this happens when you add the folder of songs to your ITUNESLIBRARY. By the way, it will NOT do this unless you copy the original files into the itunes music directory. That is, songs added that are NOT in itunes subdirectory do not get renamed or reorganized. For example, if I want to add a bunch of new albums to my ituneslibrary and I want them named and organized by artist/album, I simply copy the songs into a folder as follows (can be a random jumble of files, no directory organization needed). Assume my ITUNES LIBRARY music folder is D:\MUSIC

1. copy files into
D:\MUSIC\tempfiles
2. Then go into itunes and click on FILE/ADD FOLDER and select the folder D:/MUSIC/tempfiles
3. Then itunes will add these files and rename and reorganize based on the artist and album names. When done, there will be nothing left in D:\music\tempfiles and all files will be in the correct folders and subfolders. Again, this only works if your TAGS are correct.

Foobar's very popular and with good reason, but if all I want to do is encode I really like dBPoweramp for non MP3 conversions. It's free (except for MP3) and super easy to use. I have it in my shell extension so all I need to do is right click on a file, select "convert" and then the menu pops up. Even better, if you have a lot of files to convert just place them all in a folder, hit ctrl+a to select all, right click, and convert. They will all convert in a batch.

You can get dBPoweramp here: dbpoweramp. Extra codecs are here dbpoweramp codecs. To encode to m4a (seperate codecs for decoding), you'll need to install nero aac converter found here aac codec. Then Open the zip file (by double clicking on it) and open the folder win32, select neroAacEnc and copy (Edit menu >> Copy). Open a new explorer window, it is important the old zip window is left open (press Windows Key + E) and browse to: C:\Program files\Illustrate\dBpoweramp\encoder\m4a Nero (AAC). In the above folder select (Edit menu >> Paste).

Very simple & very fast.

I suggest using Batchenc to encode AAC files with iTunesEncode. Put Flac.exe and iTunesEncode.exe in Batchenc's folder and put this line into Batchenc "Command line" box.

Add Flac files and click start, all AAC files will be created in the same folder as your Flac files'.

I'm presuming that this will not copy over tags from the FLAC to the AAC file.