FLAC does little to resolve the OP's problem though, he already owns a player, which I assume supports only MP3 and WMA.
Tommy On 14 April 2010 13:17, Alan Pope <a...@popey.com> wrote: > On 14 April 2010 12:39, Nigel Verity <nigelver...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > I'm a bit of an audiophile, and have a large collection of music stored > in > > WAV format to preserve the sound quality. Clearly it's not possible to > copy > > many of these huge files to a portable player, so they need to be > > compressed. > > FLAC is your friend. > > a...@wopr:~/Music/Jesus Jones/Doubt$ ls -hl 3* > -rw-r--r-- 1 alan alan 23M 2010-04-04 20:33 3 - International Bright > Young Thing.flac > -rw-r--r-- 1 alan alan 33M 2010-04-04 20:33 3 - International Bright > Young Thing.wav > > Not a massive difference, 23M FLAC vs 33M WAV, but it helps, and is > lossless. I use Rockbox on my media player, which plays FLAC just > fine. > > Cheers, > Al. > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ >
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