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Originally Posted by Melik is FLAC better better than MP3 ?

Technically, yes. But, if you can't hear the different between mp3 and flac then I don't see a point and it'll just cost you more battery life on your mp3 player. However, you can use flac to backup CDs on your hard drive incase something happens to them.

 

[GordonHo]

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Originally Posted by Melik is FLAC better better than MP3 ?

well maybe a bit more 'clear'

flac is a lossless compressing method, hence it has the advantage to mp3 of not loosing any information.

on the other hand mp3 files will have a significant smaller size, and it is 'easier' to decode them. hence the processor can be slower, and will use less power and therefore the battery will last longer.

on a portable device you will have a very hard time to distinguish between a high quality mp3 (like 320kbs) and a lossless format (there are more lossless formats than FLAC avaible).

regards gordon

 

[Oga]

Pretty obvious that its a new platform and they expect to ramp up the memory size as it comes along in price! I mean doesn't Apple get leeway to do the same all the time? Of course Cowon is doing the same thing.

As for the FLAC, I welcome it. I'd probabaly not use FLAC below 1GB capacity, but I'd certainly use it. At that size you want a few songs etc, its obviously not meant to replace a 60GB X5! They already have that product nice covered.

As important is Cowon's continued support for Ogg Vorbis.

I'm definitely buying this one. I have a 256MB U2 and had just started to think about a replacement. I was starting to look at HB players, but I think this will keep me in flash camp, especially as most of my usage is jogging and other mobile stuff.[/

 

[c.you]

http://www.ebluesun.co.kr/Board/boar...orderby_2=Desc
Shows is a picture review of the new u3. It's a damn nice player.

 

[Crawdaddy]

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Originally Posted by lossless The iAudio X5 did also only support FLAC levels 0-2 when it was released. IAudio did however extend the support up to level 8 shortly after the release so I wouldn't worry too much about that.

I have an X5L. How do I change the level? Is this something I do on the machine or via the JetShell program?

Thanks!