[Wodgy]

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Originally posted by Music Fanatic Really? I thought the Karma was the only one.

The Karma is one. Isn't there an add-on for the iPod that lets you use FLAC too?

 

[Music Fanatic]

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Originally posted by Wodgy The Karma is one. Isn't there an add-on for the iPod that lets you use FLAC too?

I'm not aware of it -- can you let us know the details?

 

[Watchdog]

I have an iPod and would be estatic if it played FLAC. I hadn't heard of FLAC support, but if someone's done it, please post the info here!

 

[blessingx]

I wonder how the iPod FLAC rumor keeps getting circulated. Seems to come up every month. It can only play WAV, AIFF, MP3, AAC, and AA (Audible).

I use FLAC at home, primarily because it's not Windows only like APE (Monkeys) and WMA Lossless. If you want to do anything with your files (like share) with a Mac or Linux machine stay away from them.

 

[Iron_Dreamer]

I like Monkey's since it compresses faster and more effectively than FLAC, and I have no problems with tags via Foobar2000.

 

[Stephonovich]

I use FLAC because it's open source, and has low CPU overhead for decoding, which is good for portable use.

However, if/when I get a Karma, I'm going to use Ogg Vorbis (q6) on it, and keep the FLAC files on my HD. I can't usuallly tell the difference between the original and OV at home, let alone in a portable situation. An OV file is usually about 6MB at q6, a FLAC file, around 40MB. (for my music, anyway) Guess what I'll be using on a 20GB portable drive...

(-:Stephonovich

 

[karmypolitics]

hmm, isn't AIFF apple's equivalent to FLAC and monkey's audio? I would really love it if creative's nomad line came out w/FLAC support (20 gb karma is too small).

 

[blessingx]

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Originally posted by karmypolitics hmm, isn't AIFF apple's equivalent to FLAC and monkey's audio? I would really love it if creative's nomad line came out w/FLAC support (20 gb karma is too small).

AIFF is uncompressed and basically the same as WAV, not FLAC. FLAC is Mac (as well as most platforms) compatible though. I use it on my Apple OS X machine.

 

[lindrone]

I use Monkey's Audio, performance wise is better than any other lossless compression format. Faster, and best compression ratio out of all of them.

Monkey's Audio also has its own proprietary tagging format.. if you had lyrics for the song, you can actually embed it into Monkey's Audio's tagging format. So the lyrics stay with the song file, not in another library content file as with MP3's and most other file formats.

Bad thing, it only works on Windows.. I would love to see iPod implement some sort of lossless compression format in the future... *sigh*.

 

[Edwood]

Anyone get Monkey's Audio to preserve HDCD encoding?

I tried EAC-->Monkey's Audio and played it with foobar2000 and no dice.

It does not preserve HDCD encoding.

-Ed