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Re: [Slightly OT] iPod, Flac and Music Manager



On 29 Oct 2007, at 18:40, Paul Bendall wrote:

> I have all my music CD's ripped to NAS storage as FLAC and this all
> works beautifully with Squeezecenter 7.0 and my Squeezebox 3.
> However, some times I would like to listen to the same music on a
> portable device. Currently I have an original 2GB Nano but I am
> thinking of getting a new device.
> 1. Should I get a new iPod? If so which one, Touch, Classic?
> 2. Should I get a non-iPod device (Zune Gen 2, Archos, Zen, Cowon,
> etc); I assume I will still need to transcode from FLAC to Mp3?
> 3. Which Music Manager is "best" for ease of use,
MediaMonkey, Sveta
> from dbPowerAmp. etc?
> I don't really want to rip to FLAC and MP3 and maintain two copies.

Convert FLAC to Apple lossless and use iTunes? Probably the easiest to
use if you have an iPod, and you can point slimserver directly at the
iTunes Music Library.

As for which ipod - the touch only goes up to 16Gb, so if you need
more the Classic is your only choice. If you can manage with 16Gb, the
touch gives you a lot more functionality for the price...

Jim



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