favor flac over mp3 when both exist?

[Peter@57m]

(12-06-2014 13:48)adrian Wrote:  Well, I don't (at least not yet) have any thing higher than 44.1 or sampled with more than 24 bits, so that's not a going concern. I'm making the mp3 files so that I can put them on portable devices that don't have enough storage to accommodate flac files. But I have some content that I bought in mp3 format, so there's no flac. I suppose I could create flacs for these. I hadn't thought about that, though my initial thought is that it seems kind of silly. The only disadvantage I see of separating the flac and mp3 files is that it makes it harder to keep the tags consistent if I find I need to change them. If I can nail down my tagging before splitting the files it shouldn't be too bad....though I admit that getting the tagging right looks pretty tricky.

sorry for delay in replying - I have been travelling

I do the same thing for my iPod so that I can fit on all my music. If I use the native format it runs out of space.
I use MediaMonkey to manage the content on my iPod rather than iTunes. With the Gold version of MediaMonkey you can create 320bps mp3 or whatever versions of albums in hi-rate (CD and hi-res) on the fly as you sync the iPod with your library.
Works fine for me and means I don't have to maintain low res versions for the iPod