robcee
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If you want to go lossless, I suggest using FLAC as it is well supported. APE, Wavepack, and Monkeys Audio are not standard for lossless. And AIFF is basically WAV with headers which can be a fairly large file. If you live in Apple land then you main want to look at ALAC which is Apple's lossless format. You can convert between all of these with no losses with FOOBAR.
Sometimes I get glitches when playing flacs even when gapless is selected. The best way to get around that is to have one large flac file with a cue sheet. Then you can still choose individual tracks.
By the way, a similar trick works for SACD rips. The X3II can play the ISO and identifies individual tracks nicely.
If you want lossy I suggest MP3 or AAC which are fairly standard. I know OGG is a popular Unix choice but it is really not mainstream.
Personally I go lossless or hi res lossless. No interest in a big debate there. Brooko swears by AAC and he has a good ear. For me I prefer lossless.
Do you like your tea Green, Black, Ooolong, or herbal non caffeinated. Its all good.
just as another point of data, I've got all my stuff in ALAC (apple lossless). It's reasonably equivalent to FLAC, I think and have had good success with gapless playback on my X3. If I weren't coming from a decade+ of iTunes, I'd probably be using FLACs.
I'm not sure what the X3 is using for decoding, but most of the bigger formats, MP3, AAC and likely FLAC and ALAC have good, off the shelf hardware decoders. Not sure OGG has a decent hardware decoder chip available, but if it's doing the work in software, it might be harder on battery life.
herbal non-caffeinated is terrible. get out!