Get an iPod (probably a none for so little music) and rip to AAC lossless for best quality. Once you have lived a bit, you might want to try Rockbox, which is open source firmware and can play FLAC files - this frees you from Apple, if you care about that kind of thing.
Once you have lots more music, consider MP3. Decide for yourself whether you care about (or can hear) the quality drop (I use lame 3.97 -V3 for my iPod, which gets me a good 75% of my music collection onto my 40GB iPod). It sounds to me like you want an easy, non-techy solution - the iPod plus iTunes is it. Once you get fussy and anti-big-companies-even-Apple, then you can try a more time-consuming solution, but for now get an iPod and enjoy the music :) Adam -- adamslim Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others http://www.last.fm/user/AdamSlim/ 'Last.fm group: people who don't listen to any of last.fm's top artists' (http://www.last.fm/group/People+who+don%27t+listen+to+any+of+last.fm%27s+top+artists) SB+, EAR 859, Living Voice Auditorium II plus some other stuff SB3, Shek d2, Ming-Da MC84-C, Harbeth HL-P3ES ------------------------------------------------------------------------ adamslim's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7355 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35991 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
