Chess - DB Poweramp uses EAC. It's just a lot simpler to use and has a whole lot more options. For one, it has a "multi decoder" option you can select that will rip the CD and convert the ripped files to any other format, and dump both in to their own respective folders; all at the same time. Very handy if you want to keep two folders with the different formats. Works for me, as I play the FLAC files through my home systems, and the MP3's for the vehicles.
Although we have a small iPod, we don't use it. Neither of our vehicles has the plugin so our option is to use a FM transmitter and the sound quality is crap. We just don't bother.
DB Poweramp also collects album art, and meta data from various internet based tagging sources.
I think EAC does this to some extent at least since there has been cover art assigned to some of my new rips.
I'm fighting with iTunes, again. I effin hate iTunes....
Is there another music player that is compatible with iPods??
Yes, Media Monkey.
I don't use iTunes for this iPod.
So I thought converting the FLAC files to MP3, and forcing the converter to use constant bit rate was the best option with respect to quality. Well it might just be the highest quality MP3 format, but it doesn't compress it a whole lot more than FLAC. The folder that contains all my FLAC files is 357 GB. The folder containing the newly converted MP3 files is 125 GB. I might have to rethink this strategy...
Considering the cheap and expanding storage options these days, i'm not concerned with using compression really. Even putting files into .wav isn't as much of an issue, although having a 27MB flac file vs. a 90MB wav, both lossless formats, only makes sense to use the lesser.
