Though a bit off-topic for Squeezebox, lots of us vast FLAC collections that, in addition to running though our various Logitech players, we'd like to be able to use on portable players: few of which support FLAC.
That's for a reason, of course: FLAC file sizes are very large compared to MP3; and many players can't really live up to FLAC quality anyway. And it's also true that there are plenty of easy programs that will do a quick down-covert of FLAC to MP3. But, as I say, if you've got a massive FLAC collection at home, it's really very convenient to be able to throw a select few albums etc onto a portable player without having to do conversions..... (of course, Controller does a wonderful job - but only up to 50 feet from base!) So this topic comes up from time to time here in Squeezebox forums. Mr Google produces this useful recent CNet round up: http://tinyurl.com/ku4yfj but I'm wondering if members here can throw in their own recent observations and experiences. A general question I have is "do these several players support gapless FLAC playback?". I've got a lot of classical / opera where gapless is really crucial. For example, a buddy told me that a iPod can easily be hacked - with RockBox firmware - to support FLAC - but he *thought* it was not gapless..... So: thoughts, experiences? -- agbagb AGB SqueezeCenter Version: 7.3.2 - 24695 under Vista. 2 x SB3s, wireless, usually in sync. (Firmware 123 on both) LinkSys WRT54GX2 / SRX 200 Router, WPA2. Controller 7.3 r3993. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ agbagb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7034 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=65861 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
