Best sound out of your iPod/iPad? - AAC, FLAC, WAV, MP3 - Page 2

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Originally Posted by jaddie 

 Of course this has already been done to death, here and on other forums, but it's always best to convince yourself with your own tests. If you can use ABX software, so much the better.

I'm sure the issues have been settled - I just what want to know what the differences sound like to me and whether I can get them in an ABX. (Which I do by using a script to randomly rename files - this way I can abx on a PMP.)

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Originally Posted by Linea 

 

 

A Sansa Clip+ player with 64Gb a mini SD card will

store most of the music in AAC 160 format 

but to keep it simple?...

 

(no rockboxing of the Clip+)

 

 

If you plan to have a 64GB card in the Clip with lossy files (which is totally fine, I also use lossy files on my DAPs), then you will have no choice but to rockbox the Clip. The Clip+ original firmware has file limits in its database....officially 8000, but often less than that in the real world (depending on how much information people have in their ID3 tags) so the end result will be that you'll have a bunch of music on the card that the player won't even recognize is there.

Rockbox will eliminate that file restriction, and also the incredibly long database refresh of the original firmware. 

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Originally Posted by Linea 

 

Any other suggestions?... improvement to this

but to keep it simple?...

 

(no rockboxing of the Clip+)

 

Rockboxing honestly is very simple. And a Rockboxed Clip with boot as Rockboxed or regular as you like (you just hold down a button when you switch it on to decide.) The main advantages are

- Better battery life 

- Folder navigation

- Better eq, control of crossfeed, dithering and gapless playback

- You can play and charge at the same time

I think you are in the EU, so your warranty on the Clip isn't changed if you Rockbox.

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Originally Posted by Linea 

I was in Melbourne Australia on a holiday... today my wife

and I are flying  back to US... 

 

I wanted to avoid rockboxing cause I am not comfortable

with putting something I am not familiar with on a brand

new drive.  But I will try.  I guess I'll learn something new.

 

Thank you for all the suggestions...

I have to confess, with an expensive player I'd be very cautious. But the Clip is so insanely cheap...

And there really isn't anything to Rockboxing - you just follow the instructions exactly and it's done. Which isn't to say that you definitely should do it... but for me the battery life and "advanced" eq interface have been big wins - if I'd borrowed a Super Clip with those features built in, then I'd probably paid for a new more expensive Clip to keep them.

I think Foobar is the almost universal choice as a Windows player.