Transcoding during the ipod download could potentially take a very long time, depending on the size of your download (figure an average of at least 5 minutes per CD downloaded). My guess is you would get sick of this pretty much right away.
What many (including myself) do is: 1) rip and encode on the fly to FLAC (I use EAC). 2) Use "flac2mp3.pl", a perl script available on the web, to maintain a second mirrored music directory with MP3 files. This is simple to maintain and you only have to do the transcoding for updated/newly ripped files. This way your SB3 uses the lossless flac files and you can download the MP3s to your favorite devices (ipod etc) any time you like without having to transcode. Also, I'm not particularly tech savvy so if I can do it you can too. If you have any questions feel free to e-mail/ask. Lanier -- lanierb ------------------------------------------------------------------------ lanierb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5566 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24098 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
