]> http://www.blogcadre.com/tag/emi en http://www.blogcadre.com/blog/justin/upgrading_the_4th_gen_ipod_hd_battery_for_rockbox_flac_2007_04_06_15_27_12 <p>Kill your iPod (part II).</p> <p>When it comes to audiophiles all is but lost.</p> <p>With the advent of MP3, the idea of lossless audio seemed to have fallen upon deaf ears. Enter: FLAC, the Free Lossless Audio Codec, it compresses waveforms by finding similarities (like bzip), not by changing the the waveform itself (mp3 et. al.).</p> <p>When it comes to playing FLAC on a portable, a HD based one is the only way to go because of the increased size of FLAC files -- roughly 1/2 the size of the original uncompressed stream. <a href="http://flac.sourceforge.net/links.html#hardware">FLAC players are listed on the FLAC website</a>, but as far as I see it there are only two choices for gapless MP3 and FLAC playback:</p> <ul > <li >Rio Karma -- purchase from <a href="http://www.karmalimbo.com/">Karma Limbo</a>, his are <a href="http://www.karmalimbo.com/catalog.htm">pre-hacked with upgrades</a></li> <li >a Rockbox enabled device such as iRiver, or iPod</li> </ul> battery emi flac hard drive hd iPod mp3 Fri, 06 Apr 2007 20:27:12 +0000