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On-the-fly conversion seems adequateOn-the-fly conversion seems adequatePosted Apr 17, 2006 17:28 UTC (Mon) by b7j0c (subscriber, #27559)Parent article: Improve your iPod with Rockbox (NewsForge)
While it would be nice to be able to play my .ogg files natively, gnupod supports on-the-fly conversion to mp3 which seems adequate. I'm hesitant to do too much fiddling with the bundled firmware on the ipod.
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On-the-fly conversion seems adequate Posted Apr 18, 2006 15:42 UTC (Tue) by djao (subscriber, #4263) [Link] Converting oggs to mp3s defeats the point as far as I'm concerned.The guruboolez tests show that ogg vorbis compression at 96kbit has higher audio quality than the world's best mp3 compression at 128kbit. If you convert your oggs to mp3, you lose the quality advantages of the ogg format and gain all the quality disadvantages of the mp3 format. On an iPod nano, lower bitrate matters, since the nano has only 4 GB of space. There is no other flash-based player available right now that has more space. So you're pretty much stuck using Rockbox and ogg vorbis on the nano if you want to get the most out of the nano's limited disk space.
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