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iRiver to iPod: Upgrade, downgrade, or the same?
GodEater:
I've got crossfeed turned on on my 80GB - seems ok to me - but I'm not a big FLAC user - I stick to MP3. From what I'm told though, FLAC is one of our better optimised codecs, so you're probably in luck.
Raineer:
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--- Quote from: Llorean on June 08, 2007, 12:10:26 PM ---Anyway, the iPods have two main problems to expect: The battery life, as you know, and the fact that their processors are slower. This mostly manifests as the equalizer causing music to skip, and peakmeters on your WPS being a bad idea.
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I don't care about the peakmeters, and don't use equalizers -- but I do use crossfeed, which I suspect has similar codepaths. Is FLAC with crossfeed going to skip on the iPod (I have no sense for whether FLAC is a particular intensive codec)? Because that would pretty much kill the usefulness for me.
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I use crossfeed and play lots of FLAC on my 5G 30g. It does not skip for me, but I do not use the EQ's or peakmeters either so I can't speak to that.
ItsMyLife:
I've been using my 5.5g 80gb iPod with lots of Flac w/ the graphic equalizer and have noticed no skipping or anything in the music.
Krellion:
On my 5.0g 30GB iPod, I've noticed that when playing FLAC files that the processor stays at 30MHz, never boosting to 75MHz (that I saw).
FLAC is purposely encoded so that it takes little power to decode. See here.
Of course, any battery savings you get from the non-boosting of the processor is offset by how much more often the hard drive has to be spun up due to the size of FLAC files.
psycho_maniac:
I guess us ipod users will have to wait for the next feature freeze. The reason I got the 80gb ipod was because of the disk capacity and the color screen. Its somewhat of an upgrade but for ease of use (bugs) and battery life I would consider that a downgrade.
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