RE: origianlly AAC V MP3 - now MP3 player

[Mark Hallows <markhallows@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks to both Tony and Mark for the info. Cheers guys.=20

Now I know this has been asked before but there are a couple of new boys on
the block now..

I am finally ready to buy an MP3 player and I need something a little bit
robust. I deffinately want a HDD based system.

Any suggestions ?
Does anyone have a 	40GB Iriver IHP 100 series ?
20GB Rio Karma
40GB IPOD
The iriver and the Rio are the same price on AMP's website =A3269 and the
I=
POD
is another =A3100

I am not a fashion junky so looks aren't important but build quality and
features are along with useability..

Any advice very welcome..

Mark H=20

-----Original Message-----
From: lists@xxxxxxx [mailto:lists@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 04 June 2004 12:53
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] AAC V MP3


> erm question... What is lossless ? Do you mean a straight rip ? Maybe

Rip to something like:
WMA lossless
FLAC
monkeys
shorten

etc etc.
Various tradeoffs with the different formats - file size vs time & cpu
resoures to encode and/or decode, platforms supported etc etc.
Check this for a size/speed comparison
http://members.home.nl/w.speek/comparison.htm

I use WMA personally, but I know FLAC is quite popluar, probably coz it's
free and cross platform....

> stupid
> question but would like to double check... and what do you use to do
the
> batch conversions ??

I use Easy CD-DA extractor for extraction and conversions.
Usually actually, I rip to WMA lossess and then again to 320k LAME  MP3
because it's quicker than converting WMA to MP3, but when I want stuff for
mobile use or want another format, I use the batch convert functions in
Easy CD-DA.

hth,

Tony






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