Well I am a big FLAC fan and a fan of lossless audio encoding in general. However I do not see the point on a portable player for the most part. Portable players have limited storage so size of file is more important here. Also portable players have a power limit, and playing bigger files requires more disk reads per time of play which requires more power. Many ipod uses complain a great deal about battery time when playing lossless. Also, with the nature of a portable player you will most likely be using it in a noisy enviroment with not that great of speakers (earbuds), so I doubt you would hear much of a difference between lossless and lossy. I was looking into a player that could handle FLAC, however after seeing the options (mostly poorly designed players) and reading up on the issues I realised that having a player with lossless support is not really important to me.
And having a codec good at low bitrate with my above arguments is important. -- m1abrams _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
