iPhone

[Ben_Butterfield]

Allegedly there is no removable battery or SIM card. The latter of these contravenes UK regulations I believe. I guess we will have to wait and see.

[DS23]

I hope you meant to write FLAC rather than crappy MP3 ?

what is flac? something roberta wrote?

what makes mp3 crappy?

[Cowboy Bob]

what is flac? something roberta wrote?

what makes mp3 crappy?

MP3 is lossy compression, FLAC isn't - in other words, using FLAC you still have the exact data that is on the CD.

[LegendsWear7]

what is flac? something roberta wrote?

what makes mp3 crappy?

I think you'll be pleased with the results of a comparison. Google around and you'll soon find all you need to know. MP3 will go the way of the dodo.

Lossless (FLAC) is the way to go and then you truly can stick the CDs in the loft.

[DS23]

ah hah. i see may have to do it all over again then when the current device and backup go to the great gig in the sky.

if flac is not a compressor i suppose that means that the files are on the ever-so-large variety?

i guess i need to flac my stuff and backup into safe place and convert flac into mp3 (or whatever) so i can playback on ipod (or whatever) - or are there devices that support flac?

[LegendsWear7]

ah hah. i see may have to do it all over again then when the current device and backup go to the great gig in the sky.

if flac is not a compressor i suppose that means that the files are on the ever-so-large variety?

i guess i need to flac my stuff and backup into safe place and convert flac into mp3 (or whatever) so i can playback on ipod (or whatever) - or are there devices that support flac?

Yes.

Use Exact Audio Copy (amongst other freebies) to rip. Then converted from raw to FLAC. Results in about 300MB per CD.

Easy to convert to mp3 etc later but storage is becoming cheaper and cheaper so no need to soon.

Devices: www.slimdevices.com is the coolest. But others. Check the flac homepage. http://flac.sourceforge.net/

[DS23]

Yes.

Use Exact Audio Copy (amongst other freebies) to rip. Then converted from raw to FLAC. Results in about 300MB per CD.

Easy to convert to mp3 etc later but storage is becoming cheaper and cheaper so no need to soon.

Devices: www.slimdevices.com is the coolest. But others. Check the flac homepage. http://flac.sourceforge.net/

nice.

thanks.

[daviejones]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/19/3g_iphone/

May be worth getting one then...

[DimPrawn]

MP3 is lossy compression, FLAC isn't - in other words, using FLAC you still have the exact data that is on the CD.

Another Apple "Open Standard" that will be then.

[BoredBloke]

"And I presume, like the iPod, when the battery runs out you have to throw it away!"

Why would you do that? I had an old creative labs MP3 player which when the battery went completely dead would fail to take any charge in the player. So I jump started it using an old Nokia charger with the end cut off. Simply touch the terminals with the bare wires for a couple of seconds and it puts enough juice in the battery for the player to recognise it again.