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What's your favorite audio codec?

I recently installed Rockbox on my iPod. For those of you who are not familiar with Rockbox, it is a replacement OS for portable media players. I recommend going to www.rockbox.org for more information. One of the biggest strengths of Rockbox is that it allows a media player to play almost any commonly used audio codec (including FLAC, Vorbis, AAC, etc).

Anyway, what is your favorite codec?
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cytocycle
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FLAC but not for portable use... MP3 Lame converter for portable..

What do you like better about the Rockbox versus the Ipod interface?
osgorth
109 posts
 
Monkey's Audio (APE), mainly because it compresses very well (beats all mainstream codecs, only the exotic and VERY slow algorithms beat it), but also due to it being simple and effortless in use. No portable support as far as I know though, but I don't use that anyway. :)

It's kind of like RAR vs Zip, where FLAC et al is Zip. No contest except for portability.
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ledhed2222 OP
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Osgorth, I believe that Rockbox supports Monkey's.

I should note that I switched back to the iPod OS for three reasons:

1. Significantly worse battery life with Rockbox
2. Significantly slower performance with Rockbox (this could have had to do with my settings though)
3. No good Ogg Vorbis players for Mac. I got Rockbox to be able to play Ogg, but iTunes really is the best media player I could find for Mac, and it doesn't support Ogg.

All in all, I'd check out Rockbox if you run a PC and don't like using only AAC or MP3, like iPods limit you.
jc51373
519 posts
 
Apple Lossless...A 1:1 file.
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