SoAmusing777 - thanks for the charging info.  

bgentry - thanks for the suggestions   I should have been more clear about my needs, but you seem to have caught my drift anyhow.    I do plan to encode my new CD rips to FLAC for general storage, but when I put them on my new DAP, I was hoping to find a smaller, but still decent file...

Like many others, I'm excited by the idea of this super portable unit, so I also pre-ordered the GO v2+ last night...     Being new to this world of highish-end portables, I have a few power related questions which might be obvious to others....     Is it yet clear how the unit charges? ...

thanks guys   any recs for what I should use to replace iTunes?    I don't want to deal with the workarounds to run Foobar2000 on my Mac.

For years, I have been one of those Apple / iTunes users encoding cd's to AAC custom settings of 192 kbps / 48 kHz but each recent iTunes update has annoyed me more and more, so I want to switch my setup.    While remaining an Apple user, it seems my best bet is to use:   X Lossless Decoder...

The optical drive on my Mac Book Pro is dead   I am going to encode about 750 cd's from my collection, so I'm in the market for an external drive.  I don't need to rip Blu-Ray.  Are there any particular specs I should look for would make for either better or easier encoding?   I am...

  Hi there, I am excited to have finally joined Head-Fi.org today.... I've spent the last 20 years in the music business, both as a Producer and principal of an Artist Management company.  With all the massive changes in the business and the technology, its time for me to update my...