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| From | "Stewart Mason" <craigtorso@verizon.net> |
| Subject | Re: Why no iPod? (was Re: an iPod question (xposted)) |
| Date | Wed, 20 Sep 2006 18:31:18 -0400 |
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From: "Craig Leve" <CraigL@ori.org>
>I don't seem to suffer any undue pain with mp3s but yes Bobby if not
> *.wav, the IPOD does allow you to save to a lossless format. And
> with
> the new 80Gb IPOD, that's still a lot of songs. I think Stewart
> posted
> on this a while back and could give some sense of the expected
> capacity.
>
Sorry, couldn't tell you. I have no dog in this fight, because I not
only encode in (gasp!) mp3, I do so at (shock horror!) 128. That
gives me, let's see, 6051 tracks in 18.31 gigs of space, at far better
fidelity than the AM radio I was glued to as a kid listening to KIMN.
(Of course, bear in mind that 227 of those tracks are 59 seconds or
less, due to the aforementioned jingles and commercials.) As I said,
I mostly listen to my iPod on the subway or while I'm walking the dog
or running neighborhood errands, so I'm listening at relatively low
volume in noisy environments. If I were listening at volumes at which
bitrates would make a noticeable difference, I would be stone deaf in
a year, and then what good would high bitrates do me?
S
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