dsclar wrote: > But an ipod won't play FLAC files natively, and even if it did I have > 1TB drives filled up with high quality music rips. No mp3's for me > other than a few very old things and some old baseball game rips I > made.
This is silly. My library of 800+ albums, all in flac is well under 500GB. There is no need, zero, for flac in a car. Once you move, the road, engine, and wind noise removes the ability to replay high fidelity. High rate OGG or MP3 are fine. > I totally disagree that the Squeezebox makes no sense in a car but to > each their own. I use mine all the time and it wonderful to have 4000 > CD's with me. You actually own 4000 CDs? Wow, I've never heard of anyone with that many. I've heard of folks with a thousand or so, and others with many tens of thousands of songs. A few years ago I worked at a company (we predated the iTunes store idea) that bought and ripped 10K cds. We had nearly everything in print. Then we got a VC round and they said we needed more. So we ripped another 30K albums. Total was 40K cds. It was not all of the known universe of CDs, but it was 99.9 percent coverage of the CDs that Americans actually bought. Like books, music has a wicked fall-off. The popular stuff sells like crazy, but one you fall out of the top-100 artists in the mainstream genres, nobody sells any volume -- 2 thousand copies of an album is a success if you are not the Rolling Stones or a Country group. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
