nelamvr6 Wrote: > You should really do some A/B comparisons for yourself. MP3's can sound > quite good, if you encode them VBR with high quality presets (I use 0, > but anything 2 or less). > > The file size when using VBR vs flac is much (*MUCH*) smaller. You give > up a little bit in SQ, but you gain a LOT in storage space, which can be > important on a portable. >
This is also what I do. I have found MP3 with VBR 0 is good enough for portable use. When I listen to portable sound, it is in less than optimal situations. nelamvr6 Wrote: > > When we're talking home use, lossless is the way to go. But on a > portable it's sometimes a good idea to make compromises. > > The good news is that once you get your music stored as flac files, you > can transcode them to any format you like. There are many utilities out > there that do this, many of these are free. I use a program called "Easy CD-DA Extractor" ( http:/www.poikosoft.com ) to convert my FLAC's to MP3's, and a home made script to convert from FLAC to ogg. -- tomsi42 SB3, Rotel RC-1070/RB-1070, dynaBel Exact. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ tomsi42's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2477 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24602 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
