> I don't have an ipod so I have no experience, but there is a 3rd > party firmware hack that replaces the ipod firmware and supports > flac/ogg/etc and adds nifty things.
interesting. I'm not computer scientist, but doesn't this depend on the hardware chip in the device? Decoding ogg or even mp3 in software eats CPU and therefor battery life. > That said, everything I have is mp3 or flac transcoded to mp3 for > playback on my crappy old rio cali :) The reason I like ogg is not only that I have some free music and ripped CDs in ogg on my hard drive. My preferred broadcasting used real streams in the past, but meanwhile they have switched to ogg stream. If I record it for later "consumption", I couldn't play it back with iTunes or one of the Apple hardware players. I often use flac to save recordings losslessly (I'm a hobby musician), but later on I convert it to ogg to save disc space. Best regards, ce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
