haha no, no worries. That is actually the kind of thing I wanted to hear. Like about what level of compression is probably going to give me the best size vs. quality considering the level of hardware I have . And I guess in that situation you could always just rip your acoustic music at a...

no, I understand exactly what you mean. I am just starting out with this stuff and I know that the headphones I got aren't anywhere near top of the line (I got the for $40...). That's why I am thinking there is no point in putting lossless files on my player - because I don't have the best...

yeah, dont worry about the foobar stuff, I already made sense of it to myself...

haha yes of course. I have looked up a bunch of stuff about this and I could have looked that up too now that I think about it but I just thought I would ask here since I might get some valuable input that browsing through a bunch of random websites might not get me. This board is to discuss and...

oh and 1 more question. Does the zen touch only support 16 bit files or could it play a 24 bit 44.1k .wav file? Anyone know?

haha yes this is all very helpful. Foobar sounds interesting, the only issue I see with it is that if I am running it on my computer and out my interface into my amp and out my monitors I will be judging if I can tell the differences in quality in a completely different environment from my zen...

what program can rip in flac format? What is that an acronym for? In general, is something like a 320 kbps wma file going to be very noticably degraded compared to lossless or is the loss small? I will run my own tests once I have my stuff here but I am curious as to others' experiences so I...

Hey guys, I am new to the mp3 player world although I have had a small home studio set up for quite a while now so i am not new to audio in general... still it seems there are a lot of formats mentioned on this board that I haven't encountered before. I recently purchased a 20G zen touch and...

Hey guys, I just got my first mp3 player and am looking for some decent cheap headphones to use until I eventually put down the cash for some nice $100+ ones. Basically I am looking to spend only 30 or 40 dollars and my research has led me to be looking at the creative ep-630's and the...