Which one? Mp3, Vorbis, Aac, Lossless?

wolfman

Rex_Mundi wrote:

I've just checked a few tracks out. The average size comes in at betwwen 8MB and 10 MB. Longer tracks are a bit bigger (I've got some here at 12MB to 14MB).

I have similar using --alt-preset extreme for lame (around a 220-240kbps average). Am tempted by lossless though, as for around 3x the size I could have a direct copy of the track, no loss of quality.

wolfman

jeglet wrote:

I use Ogg on my iRiver and it's great, smaller than MP3 and better quality per kb. I also use RockBox which is great. I don't think RockBox is supported on an iPod

Ah nice. How do you find RockBox? I've read a few people find the UI a little basic and clunky. Loads of functionality though. Ogg would be the ideal format of the three (ogg, aac, mp3) if it had the support.

wonderfullife_2

wolfman wrote:

Ah nice. How do you find RockBox? I've read a few people find the UI a little basic and clunky. Loads of functionality though. Ogg would be the ideal format of the three (ogg, aac, mp3) if it had the support.

Here, I've used it on my Iriver H140, it really does give you loads of functions.

http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/ManualRockboxInstall#Introduction

Hope this helps

jeglet

Seconded - Rockbox is very good. You can create themes or use those that others have made, much better than the iRiver software and very powerful. Not sure where the 'clunky' comes from, I certainly find it easy to navigate round.

wolfman

jeglet wrote:

Not sure where the 'clunky' comes from, I certainly find it easy to navigate round.

Just want I've read. It's certainly not as smooth as say the iPod's firmware. It'd most likely be a Nano Id be looking at as I wouldn't be able to support Ogg (think this'll be my chosen format now) on my Shuffle.