Hercules;199950 Wrote: > My old iRiver H120 MP3 player (which I have rockboxed to run FLAC) is on > its last legs - the screen is badly cracked, and something in the > headphone socket is a little loose as it crackles a bit - and I am > looking to replace it. > > Increasingly, my music is in FLAC format. I'm not sure I can be > bothered to manage two music libraries - i.e. one in FLAC, and then > another transcoded into MP3 - so am looking for a player that works > well with FLAC. I realise I won't notice the difference between a good > MP3 and FLAC when I'm out and about, but as I say, managing two > libraries strikes me as unnecessary chore :-) > > So, does anyone have any recommendations for a good MP3 player that > supports FLAC? At the moment, I quite like the look of the Cowon iAudio > X5, and can't really see any viable competitors... Perhaps, though, I > have missed some other players?
IMO the better approach by far is to keep an mp3 library, for a couple of reasons: - Lossless files tend to eat up battery life on portables due to the increased disc access. - Mp3s will load much faster onto the portable. - You'll have a lot more flexibility in selecting a portable player, since only a handful of players support flac and/or rockbox. It's actually quite easy to manage. The first time you mirror the library it may take several days to convert everything, but after that you just schedule a script to run each night. The script should be smart enough to examine file modification times so that it will only transcode new/changed files and should take just a few minutes to update the mirror. -- JJZolx Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35043 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
