m1abrams Wrote: > 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.
I have been trying to decide on what I want in a portable player and have ended up with an iAudo X5 because I found that FLAC support is important to me. I have the Sennheiser PX-200 headphones which fits my preferences, and I can hear the difference between 256kBit Ogg and FLAC. The difference are subtle, but I find that I get tired of listening to the Ogg files after a few hours, unlike listening to FLAC. I am primarely using the iAudio at work, so there is no background noise. I miss out on somethings though, like gap-less playback and a decent user interface... -- tomsi42 SqueezeBox2, 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=16240 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
