Just going through the same exercise myself. I have about 100GB of FLAC files ripped with EAC. I have also created a 192kbps AAC version of the same library for my iPhone and to carry on my Macbook -- this is about 30GB.
I am looking at a new portable headphone rig (iPod with the iQube headphone amp), which will be worthy of lossless files, so now I am in the process of transcoding all the FLACs to Apple Lossless. It is possible to use Foobar and iTunesEncode to do this in a fairly automated way (even picks up album art), but it takes DAYS of processing time (approx 15 to 20 mins per transcoded CD on a 2.0Ghz MacBook Pro running XP under Parallels). It annoys me, but until Apple supports FLAC on both the Mac and iPod I'll keep all three versions (heh, something to fill my 1TB Time Capsule!). muski -- muski Transporter->Bryston BP25DA->Bryston 4B SST->Wilson Watt Puppy 7 Transporter->Headroom Max Balanced Headphone Amp->Balanced AKG701s & HD650s ------------------------------------------------------------------------ muski's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3670 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34122 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
