Re: n00b questions about ipods and linux (fedora 6 and 7)

On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 05:44 -0800, Michael A. Peters wrote:
Dean S. Messing wrote:
I am thinking about buying a 160 GB iPod for my daughter for her
approaching golden birthday (she's turning 18).

I know _zero_ about iPods (or any other external device toys).
I've had excellent luck with gtkpod - but with brand new models, it
sometimes takes some time.
With respect to AAC - my experience is that Apple's AAC encoder is
better than faac (linux encoder) but it's been awhile.

I myself just use lame to encode to mp3 - I use preset-standard and the
quality is fine, but if she has an excellent musical ear, she may want a
higher bitrate. I prefer to use mp3 because mp3 works with everything
out there.

As far as how it compares with AAC - that's something audiophiles argue
about all the time.
I can't tell the difference between a 192VBR lame encoded MP3 and a
192VBR quicktime (iTunes) encoded AAC. But I don't have a good musical
ear, let alone a trained good ear.
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I might be inclined to agree with you except the default is to generally
use 128 bits to encode mp3/aac and at that bit rate, aac is clearly
better. In fact, I think it takes 192 bit rate for mp3 to get the
quality of 128 bit rate aac at which point, the size equation is
definitely slanted to aac.

Craig

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