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What is the best music file format?
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<blockquote data-quote="kahlil88" data-source="post: 821854" data-attributes="member: 47208"><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Lossless_Audio_Codec" target="_blank">FLAC</a> is a great format. It's a lossless compression audio codec, that seems to be on average 30-50% smaller than uncompressed audio. If you're looking for lossy codecs, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorbis" target="_blank">Ogg Vorbis</a> is great. Of course, Apple doesn't support either of these formats, so forget about putting them on iPods without an alternative firmware like <a href="http://www.rockbox.org/" target="_blank">Rockbox</a>.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="kahlil88, post: 821854, member: 47208"] [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Lossless_Audio_Codec"]FLAC[/URL] is a great format. It's a lossless compression audio codec, that seems to be on average 30-50% smaller than uncompressed audio. If you're looking for lossy codecs, [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorbis"]Ogg Vorbis[/URL] is great. Of course, Apple doesn't support either of these formats, so forget about putting them on iPods without an alternative firmware like [URL="http://www.rockbox.org/"]Rockbox[/URL]. [/QUOTE]
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