The Expanding Man Posted December 7, 2007 Report Share Posted December 7, 2007 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkam Posted December 7, 2007 Report Share Posted December 7, 2007 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ojnihs Posted December 7, 2007 Report Share Posted December 7, 2007 getting rockbox made for 3G iPods to work made me want to vomit, so I steered clear of it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
immtbiker Posted December 7, 2007 Report Share Posted December 7, 2007 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkam Posted December 7, 2007 Report Share Posted December 7, 2007 and since you appear to have stuff in flac already dbpoweramp can convert from flac to alac. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
immtbiker Posted December 8, 2007 Report Share Posted December 8, 2007 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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