aardvark baguette Posted June 10, 2008 Report Posted June 10, 2008 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. Quote
aardvark baguette Posted June 10, 2008 Author Report Posted June 10, 2008 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 Quote
grawk Posted June 10, 2008 Report Posted June 10, 2008 Already got one of those Something that can go in one's pocket? Bigger pockets. Quote
aardvark baguette Posted June 10, 2008 Author Report Posted June 10, 2008 Bigger pockets. see edit Quote
grawk Posted June 10, 2008 Report Posted June 10, 2008 see edit To my awareness, you'd have to design and build your own product to fit that bill Quote
JBLoudG20 Posted June 10, 2008 Report Posted June 10, 2008 see edit Just make one long flac file out of all the tracks and put it on an ipod? Quote
aardvark baguette Posted June 10, 2008 Author Report Posted June 10, 2008 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 Quote
JBLoudG20 Posted June 10, 2008 Report Posted June 10, 2008 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. Quote
aardvark baguette Posted June 10, 2008 Author Report Posted June 10, 2008 A very large FAIL for apple, imo. Quote
grawk Posted June 10, 2008 Report Posted June 10, 2008 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... Quote
aardvark baguette Posted June 10, 2008 Author Report Posted June 10, 2008 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 Quote
grawk Posted June 10, 2008 Report Posted June 10, 2008 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 Quote
aardvark baguette Posted June 10, 2008 Author Report Posted June 10, 2008 If obtaining terrabytes of music overnight is Fail, then yes Quote
grawk Posted June 10, 2008 Report Posted June 10, 2008 If obtaining terrabytes of music overnight is Fail, then yes Transcoding isn't that hard. Quote
JBLoudG20 Posted June 10, 2008 Report Posted June 10, 2008 Transcoding isn't that hard. word. a pita sometimes, but not hard. Quote
deepak Posted June 10, 2008 Report Posted June 10, 2008 Monkey's Audio (APE) has been long dead. The developer said it won't be updated anymore. Quote
tkam Posted June 10, 2008 Report Posted June 10, 2008 dbpoweramp is good for converting as well. Quote
Dusty Chalk Posted June 11, 2008 Report Posted June 11, 2008 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). Quote
aardvark baguette Posted June 11, 2008 Author Report Posted June 11, 2008 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. Quote
Dusty Chalk Posted June 11, 2008 Report Posted June 11, 2008 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. Quote
aardvark baguette Posted June 11, 2008 Author Report Posted June 11, 2008 Thanks for the link. Gonna poke around on it tomorrow night. Quote
LFF Posted June 11, 2008 Report Posted June 11, 2008 The ipod can show images while playing FLAC files if you have it Rockboxed. Quote
jinp6301 Posted June 11, 2008 Report Posted June 11, 2008 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. Quote
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