Quoting Balthazar_B ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > DCtoDaylight;225936 Wrote: > > Ya but I'm and audiophile AND a techno dweeb! I want my cake and to eat > > it too! > > > > Your point is certainly valid, even the 160 gig Classic won't hold > > everything unless I convert it to lossy compression. I guess it > > becomes a question of how often I want to re-load. > > That's exactly what I do with my 80GB iPod (which has too little > capacity for my library, so a 160GB Classic is soon on its way). I > sort of get around the conversion step by ripping everything in one > step to both gapless FLAC (managed by SlimServer/Ubuntu) and gapless > iTunes AAC (managed by iTunes/XP), which gives me lossless for my more > critical listening environment at home and lossy for fitting on my > portable player, which is almost always used in more challenging > environments where higher quality playback would be wasted.
I rip everything to Flac, and then use MediaMonkey to convert it on the fly to mp3 when loading my iPod. That way I don't have to take up room on my drives with mp3s just for the ipod. I also run mp3fs, which allows me to mount your Flac files as mp3 and lets iTunes index them. I do that because MediaMonkey doesn't support the iPhone yet, and I have to use iTunes to load it. Either way allows me to feed my Apple devices the mp3s they want at any bitrate I choose, without having to store/manage mp3s on disk. Neat. http://www.mediamonkey.com http://mp3fs.sourceforge.net _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
