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Old 09-09-2006, 01:40 PM
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Originally Posted by Pete7
Bought by me. Thanks again Grant! I'm totally new to the Ipod universe,defecting from Sony as the NW-HD5 doesn't seem to have a true line out. I compared the sound to the true line out of a Sony MZ-R50 and really couldn't detect much of a difference. The thing that's really turned me away from Sony is the lack of a lossless support. You can convert CD's to ATRAC lossless but cannot transfer a lossless file to a portable player. The best you can get is 352kbps. I'm a little uncertain of what I should rip my CD's to: FLAC or ALAC. I'm a little hesitant about Rockbox with it having bugs and all.
I use ALAC. I don't have the time or patience to deal with FLAC and RockBox when iTunes and ALAC is so easy. Just make sure you have error correction turned on in iTunes when you are ripping.
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