[Swaye]

Greetings all, i was looking to purchase a new creative zen vision m and i was wondering if FLAC audio format works on it?

any information would be greatly appreciated.


Cheers!

 

[krmathis]

A short Google search gave me this.
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Creative Zen Vision:M Specifications: Supported Audio formats: MP3, WMA (inc MS PD DRM), WAV

No FLAC mentioned there, so....

source

 

[Swaye]

hmmmm thanks mate...but damn i need a player to play flac files...what lossless audio formats do you guys use?

 

[ak40ozKevin]

To keep things simple I just use Apple Lossless on my iPod. But if iPods aren't your thing I would look into getting a device that supports Rockbox or something from Cowon.

 

[krmathis]

Check out the Portable/Handheld section on the FLAC - Supported devices website.

I personally use Apple Lossless on iPod's.

 

[ILikeMusic]

The Creative ZVM is a great unit but doesn't support FLAC. But... if your library is in FLAC why not just convert it to high-bitrate MP3 (such as LAME -V0) for use in the player? Any current PC can convert even a large library in a few hours or less, you'll never hear a difference, and battery life will be much better. If you eliminate players based on lack of support of FLAC you won't have many left to choose from...

 

[rockin_amigo14]

if you're library is in FLAC, I'd recommend taking a look at the models supported by Rockbox.

 

[Swaye]

Hmmmm thanks for the replies people...unfortunately i've really chosen to not go with the ipod.And i cant find the rockbox here in malaysia... thats why i'm down the the ZVM. so i guess converting would be a good choise..

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Originally Posted by ILikeMusic /img/forum/go_quote.gif The Creative ZVM is a great unit but doesn't support FLAC. But... if your library is in FLAC why not just convert it to high-bitrate MP3 (such as LAME -V0) for use in the player? Any current PC can convert even a large library in a few hours or less, you'll never hear a difference, and battery life will be much better. If you eliminate players based on lack of support of FLAC you won't have many left to choose from...

Hmm i see what software would i need to do this?

 

[ILikeMusic]

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Hmm i see what software would i need to do this?

There are many options but Foobar2000 (Google for it, it's free) is probably one of the better ones, and it uses the LAME MP3 encoder which is widely regarded to be the best at high bitrates.

 

[mastercheif]

Ugh, that was one thing I hated about the ZV:M. No support for any compressed lossless codecs. It doesn't even support WMA lossless.

 

[Scorche]

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Originally Posted by Swaye /img/forum/go_quote.gif Hmmmm thanks for the replies people...unfortunately i've really chosen to not go with the ipod.And i cant find the rockbox here in malaysia... thats why i'm down the the ZVM. so i guess converting would be a good choise..

I just want to make sure, but it seems like you are thinking Rockbox is a device. It is a replacement firmware for many DAPs...see the link in my signature.

 

[rockin_amigo14]

the ZVM supports WAV files.

 

[Gautama]

Only thing on Zen lossless-wise is WAV, I use V0 mp3s and its all good

 

[wgr73]

you guys say "v0 mp3's", where do you get the converters/encoders for these? Is there a specific one you guys use?

 

[kondor-11]

I use CDex for my encoding. It uses LAME VBR. I don't know if this is the best way or not.