verbatone Wrote: > While I almost 100% agree with you here, I think mobile devices will > still depend on lossy formats for at least another couple of years > until storage is large (in capacity), small (in size), and > inexpensive. > > I also really like the ogg format. For my iriver, I use ogg with > Rockbox and the format can almost not be beat. My library at home for > the slimserver is APE, but I'd like to convert to FLAC for > foward/rewind capabilities except FLAC is roughly 5%-10% less > efficient. I doubt I'll ever see native APE format. > > I think the final days for lossy formats are numbered, but there still > is viability for the near term. Also, when online retailers start > offering lossless audio content, the days of CDs will be over too.
I'm with you here as well. I almost included my opinions on this in my previous post, but I didn't want to stray too far. I'm really picky and in my case, I couldn't find a portable player (much less a car player) that supported Ogg *and* had all the other features I wanted. In the case of iRiver, it was their lack of external, expandable storage. So in addition to the FLAC copy of my library, I also maintain a separate MP3 tree for use with those devices. If by some miracle Ogg gains more marketshare and some devices come out that can use it that meet all of my other requirements, I'll buy in again and just re-encode my library from the FLACs. Chris OH Wrote: > Check out allofmp3.com for lossless downloads There are numerous threads about allofmp3.com here. Personally, I find the gray area in which they operate to be a little too black, and I'll stick with CDs as long as they are available. Also, some here have speculated (after listening to downloaded tracks) that their "lossless" downloads are actually just transcoded 320kbit MP3s. I suppose someone could download a lossless track of something they own on CD and compare the bits, but I've not heard of such a test. -- eq72521 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ eq72521's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1512 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18357 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
