Re: Why bother with lossy encoding?

"Player is 6x10x1.5cm (divide by 2.54 for inches)"....is that MULTIPLY
instead?

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        Billy Geiger
        Winder, GA.
      (40 miles east
         of Atlanta)

On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 11:07 PM, L A Walsh <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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
> ----
>     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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