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leland:
Thanks all. Good to know not to use aac. I'll need to keep checking to see if/when that matures.

Using mpc would be nice, but it's just too annoying to share music people. At least some people (meaning those not here) have heard of ogg ;)

As to my ears, I won't tell you what they say...But I don't require much from a portable player. Even if I could hear a difference I'm on the go or on a plane. Not really concentrating on the music. I have my lossless files hooked up to my home stereo for good listening (please note that the lossless is for archival and transcoding purposes, I do not purport to hear the differences between lossy and lossless codecs).

Multiplex:
For most devices, main stream codecs (MP3/OGG) and your stated use of the player I think the best bet is to get the smallest file (lowest quality) that you are OK with. That way the player can get more tracks(longer playing time) into the buffer when it spins up the disk(power hungry activity) and as a benefit you can get more tracks onto your player.

Some folks claim that OGG sounds better (less bad?) than MP3 at

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