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post #16 of 20
6/1/09 at 7:29am
Haven't tried AAC yet. Prefer OGG over MPC for sound quality, but this depends on personal taste. OGG Q9 is indeed the sweet spot between compression and quality. The difference with the Q10 setting is obvious on a good system, but uses 500kbps in stead of the 350kbps of Q9.
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post #17 of 20
6/1/09 at 5:34pm
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Originally Posted by veracocha View Post
Unfortunately my cowon s9 does not support AAC
I share your pain. The D2's support for AAC was revoked in a firmware update and Cowon hasn't stated whether it will readd the support. This is the only thing keeping me from upgrading. I'm actually starting to consider getting a Nano even though I love my D2 to death. The D2 just has too many functionality glitches that are starting to irritate me now (erratic FLAC tag handling ["RTIST=Bear McCreary"], bad touch screen [in comparison to the iPod touch, jeez that thing is nice], and poor GUI design).
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post #18 of 20
6/4/09 at 10:48am
I may start using AAC, since it's PS3 compatible, and I've been starting to use Mediatomb to get my music from my Linux Computer to my PS3. I don't really want 3 complete library rips, though. (FLAC for at the computer, ogg for D2, AAC for PS3)
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post #19 of 20
9/29/09 at 7:09am
Ogg (-q 6 or 7) is the best format widely supported on portable digital music players, IMO. MPC/Musepack is the best lossy codec, period. I use FLAC when I initially rip a cd, which I can then transcode into whatever lossy codec I desire.

Last is MP3 with --alt-preset-extreme (preferred), or --alt-preset-standard VBR modes.

I have a Sansa Fuze 8gb coming from Amazon next week, luckily it supports both FLAC and OGG, which is the format most of my music is in. I used to use MPC almost exclusively, expecting portable digital players to start supporting it due to stellar audio quality. But it never really took off in the mainstream so I re-ripped my CDs as flac for archival purposes and then transcode those to OGG -q 7 for general use.
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post #20 of 20
9/29/09 at 10:53am
I'd vote for AAC, but past results are pretty inconclusive: Codec listening test - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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