[bigshot]

More like "emperor's new clothes" than "golden ears"...

If you don't have a lot of music, overkill is OK. But if you're like me with six iPods packed to the gills and there STILL isn't enough room for everything you want to carry around, efficiency matters.

See ya
Steve

 

[Morph201]

Just put uncompressed WAVs on that dang thang man!

 

[ywd]

Lame v0 encoded mp3 is supposed to be almost indistinguishable from 320 mp3 and averages out at less than 256kbps, so i recommend it.

 

[KenW]

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Originally Posted by bigshot /img/forum/go_quote.gif More like "emperor's new clothes" than "golden ears"... If you don't have a lot of music, overkill is OK. But if you're like me with six iPods packed to the gills and there STILL isn't enough room for everything you want to carry around, efficiency matters. See ya Steve

Well, I'll have to admit that I have three external HD's along with my 200GB laptop drive almost filled and I don't have any of my classical ripped.

Still, my portable is simply for travel so there's little chance that a 30GB player won't be enough to satisfy me. Still, even though I can't hear the difference, I'm probably going to throw money away and get a high capacity ipod shortly and throw some lossless albums on there. Stupid....I know, I know. But anal retentive types like me simply can't help themselves.

 

[bigshot]

If you use shuffle, when you mix classical onto the same iPod, you realize that you need more than one iPod. Classical requires "shuffle by album" while pop music requires "shuffle by song". Once you have a Classical iPod and a Pop iPod, it's a slippery slope to the Jazz iPod, the 50s/60s R&R and R&B iPod, the Pop Vocals iPod and the Ethnic music iPod... not to mention the Movies iPod, the TV iPod and the Music Video iPod.

This is retentiveness at its extreme!

See ya
Steve

 

[GSh]

i didnt realize going lossless would kill 50% of the battery life right there. i just got a new 80gb ipod as well and planned on putting just WAV on there. i would love flac support but, eh, you know...i would never use an ipod in the first place but since i got it for free.

why bother messing around with codecs and different bitrates? seriously thats like saying is 87, 89, or 91 octane better for my civic? if piece of mind must be obtained, throw WAV on there be done. but now with the whole battery life issue (i fly long flights and need at least 10 hours play) then just rip 320kbps CBR (isnt 256kpbs the max for VBR?). yah its a pain in the ass, convert flac to wav, then convert wav to mp3. god...maybe ill check out rockbox =/. this is what apple does to people, why cant everything be simple.

edit: nevermind, 5.5G ipods arent supported by rockbox. i should have sold the ipod... =(

 

[bigshot]

Just put files at the lowest compression rate that sounds good to you onto your iPod. You'll enjoy excellent battery life and you'll be able to fit a month's worth of music on it. Don't let OCD ruin your listening pleasure.

See ya
Steve

 

[bowraboy]

I just use lossless & smart playlists. Can't understand why everyone wants all there music on an iPod.