December 7, 200718 yr comment_76343 My faithful Creative Zen Touch needs upgrading, and an 80 gb iPod looks like it might be the current sweet spot. From what I have discovered, it looks like if I install rockbox, I can play flac files on an iPod. If I'm right, looks like I need to choose between flac and apple lossless. Ideally, I only want to rip my CDs once. Down the track, I may well start using a squeezebox or something similar in my home system. Are there any sq advantages of one type over the other? What about storage space? Report
December 7, 200718 yr comment_76344 i haven't kept up with rockbox lately, but did they ever actually get it working on the 80gig ipods? i know for the longest time they couldn't get it working with the 5.5 80gig and i wonder if they have it working with the classic's at all. Report
December 7, 200718 yr comment_76368 getting rockbox made for 3G iPods to work made me want to vomit, so I steered clear of it Report
December 7, 200718 yr comment_76376 Why not use dBPoweramp and CDRipper and convert your CD's to ALAC. It's just as easy, and a lot friendlier than installing a new operating system on an iPod. They are both lossless. Report
December 7, 200718 yr comment_76378 and since you appear to have stuff in flac already dbpoweramp can convert from flac to alac. Report
December 8, 200718 yr comment_76382 I do that every day. I have 500 MB of .flac on an external, and it takes 11 seconds to convert a CD over to ALAC for my iMod. Report
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