Should I buy the new classic ipod, and convert my flac and wma's?
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September 7th, 2007
Hey guys…in a bit of a dilema here. I really need an mp3 player, have always wanted one, but never took the plunge. The release of the ipod classic makes it a very tempting buy, 80GB for £160 off Apple’s website (for those of you in the US, £160 for an 80 gig mp3 player is exceptionally good value.)
I have around 30 gigs of music, and I do want the ability to carry all my music with me, with no real interest in gimmicks such as multi touch or wifi access.
I do have a lot of lossless music, about 150–200 songs, in wma and flac format, and 2 albums of m4a. Should I buy the ipod and convert to mp3, or wait for the next rockbox?
Or should I alternatively wait for the next generation of offerings from iriver and creative (x-fi built in?)
P.S I’m not a huge fan of itunes either!
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the ipod is a great platform for carrying around a lot of music. if you have only 30 GB of flac and lossless WMA, i say get the ipod and convert your collection to apple lossless… at around 5 MB/minute, your collection could very well fit without compromising quality.
i agree with samkusnetz get the 80gb , convert to lossless and get a noise-cancelling headphones and you have the ultimate music experience. Even though i hate the zune as a music player, i have to add the that the zune does sound alot better than the iPod (cnet actually did a test to prove this http://youtube.com/watch?v=KmSzRV7ET94)
btw i would not recommend the iRiver because of the poor UI and the lack of enough software updates plus my friends
Honestly, if you are going to use your iPod with headphones lossless isn’t going to help much. I would just convert to mp3 and be done with it. And you don’t have very much. You could convert the songs to mp3 and leave the originals. That way you have a computer copy (lossless) and a iPod copy (mp3).
what johnpowell says may be true of the headphones that apple includes with the ipod, but there are many, many kinds of headphones which are good enough to resolve the difference between mp3 and lossless audio.
What about rockbox? Has anyone used it? I would still want a simple user interface, and I know that’s a big issue with rockbox.
Secondly going back to my previous point, does anyone have any predictions about the next generation of Creative hard disk based player?
Thanks,
VJ
If you really don’t like iTunes, you could try Floola. I tried it, and it’s pretty simple, though if you have used iTune a lot and are used it to, stick to iTunes.
I’ve read up on RockBox, but never tried it. Never saw a reason.
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