June 10, 200818 yr Anyone know if there is a portable player akin to ipod that does Flac Disc Images? Or regular disc images? Or APE disc images? Thanks.
June 10, 200818 yr Author Already got one of those Something that can go in one's pocket? edit: Oh and something that doesnt have to be booted up, or run windoze
June 10, 200818 yr see edit To my awareness, you'd have to design and build your own product to fit that bill
June 10, 200818 yr see edit Just make one long flac file out of all the tracks and put it on an ipod?
June 10, 200818 yr Author To my awareness, you'd have to design and build your own product to fit that bill Just make one long flac file out of all the tracks and put it on an ipod? It would have to be wav or aiff, as ipod doesnt do flac ( ) but I'd like to avoid further transcoding, as its getting to be a PITA
June 10, 200818 yr It would have to be wav or aiff, as ipod doesnt do flac ( ) but I'd like to avoid further transcoding, as its getting to be a PITA Oh yeah. oops.
June 10, 200818 yr A very large FAIL for apple, imo. Hardly. FLAC didn't have traction anywhere when apple went with ALAC. Apple basically defined the market, and had the forethought to include lossless compression as an option. Can't fault them for that. ALAC was definitely around when you decided to go with APE and FLAC and whatever other communist compression scheme you chose...
June 10, 200818 yr Author Hardly. FLAC didn't have traction anywhere when apple went with ALAC. Apple basically defined the market, and had the forethought to include lossless compression as an option. Can't fault them for that. ALAC was definitely around when you decided to go with APE and FLAC and whatever other communist compression scheme you chose... lol Actually I started ripping with Apple Lossless, but overtime have gravitated to other formats, partly due to EAC and Foobar, partly due to others not using the format. It just makes it easier for "talking" about music with others
June 10, 200818 yr lol Actually I started ripping with Apple Lossless, but overtime have gravitated to other formats, partly due to EAC and Foobar, partly due to others not using the format. It just makes it easier for "talking" about music with others So the fail is with you
June 10, 200818 yr If obtaining terrabytes of music overnight is Fail, then yes Transcoding isn't that hard.
June 10, 200818 yr Monkey's Audio (APE) has been long dead. The developer said it won't be updated anymore.
June 11, 200818 yr Actually I started ripping with Apple Lossless...I would think conversion to ALAC would be relatively painless. And if you want to learn how to program on the iPhone/iTouch, I'm sure you could get it to play FLAC disk images. FLAC, itself, has already been done -- I don't know if that includes disk images (it usually doesn't).
June 11, 200818 yr Author I would think conversion to ALAC would be relatively painless. And if you want to learn how to program on the iPhone/iTouch, I'm sure you could get it to play FLAC disk images. FLAC, itself, has already been done -- I don't know if that includes disk images (it usually doesn't). Its not hard to press a few buttons and convert a disc image to Apple Lossless, but I'd like to keep the disc image files, which means I'd run out of HD space very quickly. Plus I dont feel like having to manually add album art to so many things. Its not really a necessity that I find a player that plays flac disc images, it would just be all the more convenient for me is all. If there aren't any players that do that out there, then I see no reason to abandon the ipod.
June 11, 200818 yr Well, why don't you download VideoLAN and see if it works there (it's a multi-platform app, inc Windows), because from the looks of things, VLC4iPhone is just a port.
June 11, 200818 yr The ipod can show images while playing FLAC files if you have it Rockboxed. ipod + rockbox + cuesheets Thats what I said, but I wasnt sure I was right.
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