Rockbox Recording Formats (Sansa e260)

[imanub]

I installed the latest build of Rockbox to my new Sansa e260 (after I upgraded to the current firmware).

I noticed that there are multiple recording formats to choose from when recording (PCM Wave, AIFF, WavPack, MPEG layer 3).

Where can I find out which formats lend themselves to specific scenarios? (Namely, which are best for recording music and which are best for recording speech?) Where can I find specific information about the advantages/disadvantages for each format?

Are these formats lossy or lossless? Are these the only possible recording formats? (Is it possible to use Ogg?) What is the maximum possible bitrate that this player could record at?

[Chronon]

There are other places that are devoted more directly to audio formats, like HydrogenAudio.  Try these pages:

http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Category:Codecs
http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Category:Container_Formats

As the manual points out, the bitrate only affects MP3 recording (the only lossy recording format in Rockbox).

[tomers]

Shouldn't it be a table in the manual explaining the various formats available for recording?
It will help users, and it is needed as Rockbox offers many such choices, and it is expected that manual explain the differences between the formats.

It should show whether the format is lossy/losless, what bitrate it has, for what it is good for, etc.

I am sorry I can't write such table myself.

[Chronon]

Tables are nice ways of organizing data.  Though, I think the purpose of a particular table should be clear.  I don't think "what it is good for" is an intrinsic property of an audio format.  This sort of thing gets debated and seems well beyond the scope of what should be included in the Rockbox manual.  I could see a simple table that just provides possible bitrates and indicates that only mp3 is lossy.