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You forgot the foxLv2 -- I have one and the sound quality is pretty amazing, even over bluetooth. http://soundmatters.com/foxl/index.html

You can use handbrake from shell scripts pretty easily. You could probably write some applescript and make it a nice droplet to play nicely with OSX, but I am a curmudgeon so I use the following shell script to convert my old AVI files over. Just save as transcode.sh and then run as 'transcode.sh *.avi *.mkv' and you will end up with a transcoded/xxxx.m4v file for each of the input files.

Note that the handbrake-cli is not included in the normal GUI download - you have to pull it down separately.

If you want to use something other than iphone/ipod presets just change the --preset flag (perhaps 'Universal' would be best for appletv/ipad viewing)

#!/bin/sh
HB=/usr/local/bin/HandBrakeCLI

for if in "$@"
do
mkdir -p transcoded
bn="${if}"
bn=`basename "${bn}" .avi`
bn=`basename "${bn}" .mp4`
bn=`basename "${bn}" .mkv`
bn=`basename "${bn}" .m4v`
of="`pwd`/transcoded/${bn}.m4v"
if [ -f "${of}" ]; then
echo "Skipping `basename \"${of}\"`"
continue;
fi
${HB} --preset 'iPhone & iPod Touch' -I -m -t 1 -c 1 -i "${if}" -o "${of}"
done

My wife and son and I are in the midst of paring down all of our belongings. The plan is to go from a 2300 sq. ft. house to being nomadic for a few years. Find a nice small long-term rental for 5-6 months, get to know a place, and then move on.

Until recently I still had every book I had ever purchased after I turned 8 (now 39). Donating a few thousand books to the library and actually being able to see my office/bedroom/living room walls again was a great feeling. You won't regret paring down!