Re: Why bother with lossy encoding?

Clyde Lyman wrote:
> Any way to use Audacity as my defalt music player? I've looked but 
> have not found one and it would be a great one. I'd like Shuffle
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    Go get 'foobar2000'(free PC player)  It's been out for over a decade,
has a bunch of plugins, handles most all audio formats.

    Best of all,  you can design your own GUI... it's a bit of a chore
to do, but once you have your own look with the panels and plugins you
want, you won't want to go back to generic, but you can use a preset until
you are ready for that.

    As for a reason to use FLAC.  I know I can go from FLAC to
any other format, losslessly.  If I go for MP3, I can't later re-encode
to something else.

    Besides, once you've got your home-collection in FLAC on your
hard disk, you won't want to take the time to re-encode into some other
format for each portable you have -- so I just got a good portable player
that can use a 128G memory card (chip?) (smaller than a dime).

    If you haven't heard of it, Check out the Fiio line.  If you just
want music, the Fiio X3, has a color display to display the album cover
and has up to a 24-bit, 192KHz output ability.  You can also use it
as a high-rez output device for your PC if you are into that.  I have
less than 50% usage with near 4000 songs -- all full size FLAC -- so
all i need to do is copy them from PC to the player or the chip directly.
Player is 6x10x1.5cm (divide by 2.54 for inches) and weighs about 155 grams
or 5.4oz. 

    I've left the thing turned on w/screen off (not playing), and grabbed it
a week later, and it was still 'on' with a fair amount of battery left.
They really did a good job -- and I've played it for days str8 w/no recharge
and battery didn't even get low -- really good w/power.

    Fiio has other players if you want video and other stuff, they also
have portable amps (same size as the player, but able to power full size
studio headphones).  Both charge via USB.



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