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Best DAP suporting FLAC ???

post #1 of 33
1/9/07 at 5:27am
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Which would be the best portable player supporting loosles FLAC playback ???
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post #2 of 33
1/9/07 at 5:28am
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Originally Posted by icediz View Post
Which would be the best portable player supporting loosles FLAC playback ???

Only the late, great Rio Karma and the Cowon iAudio X5 support FLAC natively. The iPod, the iRiver H100 series, and the H300 series support FLAC playback through Rockbox firmware.
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post #3 of 33
1/9/07 at 8:14am
don't ALL Cowon players support FLAC natively?
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post #4 of 33
1/9/07 at 8:36am
Pretty much, yeah. Not sure about their earlier models (pre-G3), though.

They sound great too.
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post #5 of 33
1/9/07 at 10:13am
The Vibez also plays FLAC natively & gaplessly. But at 12 GB it just won't hold very much FLAC goodness. Vibez and Karma are the only players in the history of the world that play FLAC gapless.
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post #6 of 33
1/9/07 at 10:43am
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Originally Posted by RubenNYC View Post
The Vibez also plays FLAC natively & gaplessly. But at 12 GB it just won't hold very much FLAC goodness. Vibez and Karma are the only players in the history of the world that play FLAC gapless.
Not quite. Rockbox supports gapless FLAC playback on every platform it's been ported to.
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post #7 of 33
1/9/07 at 11:09am
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Originally Posted by dpippel View Post
Not quite. Rockbox supports gapless FLAC playback on every platform it's been ported to.
Thx. I should have specified "natively" or "out of the box". It is a good point, though, that Rockbox expands the pool of potential FLAC DAP candidates.
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post #8 of 33
1/9/07 at 11:36am
when you think of how many DAPs natively support FLAC then throw in gapless it's no wonder rockbox was created. i have a rockbox'd iMod and absolutely love it but wanted something in a more portable package. the vibez is the only player i know of that has 12gb of FLAC gapless native support in its size.

i'm hoping once the 15+gb flash players start showing up that at least a few of them will have both FLAC and gapless support. oh, yeah... AND produce SQ on the level of cowon/iaudio. if and when that happens i'll be picking one of those puppies up ASAP!
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post #9 of 33
1/9/07 at 12:15pm
Doesn't that obnoxious 30GB Kenwood player with the built-in preamp support FLAC as well?
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post #10 of 33
1/9/07 at 12:20pm
^ Thats my understanding. ^

When is that obnoxtious thing gonna be avail in the states?
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post #11 of 33
1/9/07 at 1:03pm
actually, i thought it was a proprietary lossless codec that kenwood developed and not FLAC. i remember one head-fi'er had one then sold it. nice looking unit and from what i understand sounded great.
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post #12 of 33
1/9/07 at 1:20pm
I'm pretty certain it was another proprietary codec which is what many people who previewed it said - do we really need another lossless codec when there are already so many around (and FLAC is free so anyway can use it)
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post #13 of 33
1/9/07 at 1:21pm
What about those DAPs that can run Rockbox? I'm using the Iriver iHP-140.
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post #14 of 33
1/9/07 at 1:23pm
Imo that would be a rockboxed iPod nano!
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post #15 of 33
1/9/07 at 2:11pm
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Originally Posted by dpippel View Post
Not quite. Rockbox supports gapless FLAC playback on every platform it's been ported to.
This is almost true. Rockbox supports gapless FLAC playback on every software codec platform it's been ported to. It does not support FLAC on Archos players, but it does on the supported iPod, iriver, iAudio, and Toshiba models.
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