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IPOD Nano 80GB playback broken ?

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GodEater:
It doesn't.

Art99:
oops sorry  yes I meant ALAC not APE.  I have experimented converting Flac to ALAC so they would play on the IPod. It seemed like they didn't sound very good when I did this. I was trying to point out that both Apple (ALAC) and Microsoft (WMA) seem more interested protecting their proprietary lossless codecs then making a player with broader codec support that more people would be happier with. I remember reading an article in a PC magazine 2 or 3 years ago where they compared lossless codecs and they concluded that Flac was superior in sound quality than the others so that's why I decided to use it.

Febs:

--- Quote from: Art99 on August 19, 2009, 05:17:45 PM ---I remember reading an article in a PC magazine 2 or 3 years ago where they compared lossless codecs and they concluded that Flac was superior in sound quality than the others so that's why I decided to use it.
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FLAC is not audibly superior to ALAC, as they are both lossless formats and bit-identical to the original audio data.  Moreover, if you converted FLAC to ALAC, that is (or at least should be) a completely lossless process so the audio data in the resulting files should be identical.

pixelma:

--- Quote from: Art99 on August 19, 2009, 12:32:06 AM ---After it booted I went into database and it tried to intialize 400 plus files even though no files were on the Ipod.
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--- Quote from: Chronon on August 19, 2009, 02:53:36 AM ---I believe that sometimes the count given while Rockbox builds the database doesn't directly correspond to the number of music files it has processed. 
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The database doesn't say "XX files found", just "XX found", which is the count of all items it finds - that is all files not only music and directories are counted as an item too. On a fresh install of Rockbox, it at least counts the content of the .rockbox folder this way - you could compare the numbers with those the stats plugin gives you (number of files + number of directories). Probably also important here is that there is a bug where initialising never finishes when there are no music files on the disk (it is in the tracker somewhere).

Art99:
I have figured out a lot of things since I first made this post. I have all my Flac files on Rockbox now and everything is working great :) Once you get the hang of it then it's pretty easy and well designed too. Thanks for all the help everyone !

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