ipod and dac?
Gunbei, File fragmentation should be the least of your worries on an iPod. The unit has a 20+ minute "skip protection" buffer, and even at 10MB/minute, reading uncompressed audio shouldn't be that much of a challenge for the on-board hard drive. That said, I'll second StefH's comment that if it's an issue for you, you can always delete and re-sync your iPod. |
Cwlondon, do you have the latest firmware and software updates? Downloads are available at this site. |
Onhwy61 Thank you. Probably not so I will check the downloads. To clarify my other comments, my "skipping" was not from vibration or jarring. It is a brief pause or dead space in the music -- only on WAV files -- that seems to relate to the mechanical movement of the internal hard drive. Annoying. Dont think this would be resolved by firmware. By the way, the chief guru I have met on this subject is a visitor to Audiogon. Following a previous iPod thread on the tedium of ripping CD's, he has set up a service where he does this for people. UPS your CDs and he will send it all back to you, conveniently copied onto a portable hard drive. I have no affiliation with Stuart, but have found him to be extremely knowledgable and a very good guy: stuart@braiman.com He, too, seems to think that tagging WAV files is not perfectly straightforward. So I am still a big fan of the iPod device, but do look forward to progress in the lossless schemes and external DACs. |
CWLondon, Do you generate the WAV files using the Apple iTunes software? I thought that iTunes knows how to tag WAVs and AIFFs just like MP3s and does so automatically. (Have you also tried ripping a track to AIFF and see if it can be tagged?) Personally, I would be wary of sending CDs off to someone else to rip them .. it's just so easy to use iTunes or a quality program such as Exact Audio Copy with the LAME encoder as a plug-in. http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/ Lame: http://www.mp3dev.org/mp3/ |
