Topic: Portable Flac Players

[teamdrink]

Check out our list of portable FLAC players.  They range from 500gb down to 4gb.  Hopefully this helps everyone get a better idea of what is available other than ipod.  Please let me know if you have any other suggestions, thanks

http://www.squidoo.com/portable-flac-player-comparisons

[H₂O]

Don't forget to mention the iPhone and iPod Touch using VLC a free app.

[spyder9]

Ok.  Now which on the list play gapless?

[teamdrink]

HM-601 Music Player is the only one so far that I know of that plays 24 bit.  Not sure about gapless playback.
Scroll to near the bottom of the page with the link provided to check it out.  It takes up to a 32gb SDHC,  I am thinking about picking one of these up myself.

http://www.squidoo.com/portable-flac-player-comparisons

[Belexes]

I wish the Sony M10 supported FLAC. 

I may just make MP3's of the shows I like and dump them onto the M10. I only need a player for at work to drown out other employees.  FLAC would be a plus.

[spyder9]

HM-601 Music Player is the only one so far that I know of that plays 24 bit.  Not sure about gapless playback.
Scroll to near the bottom of the page with the link provided to check it out.  It takes up to a 32gb SDHC,  I am thinking about picking one of these up myself.

http://www.squidoo.com/portable-flac-player-comparisons

Thanks for the link.  But, 24 bit is useless to me, if I'm listening to "pops" in between the tracks. 

Manufacturers seem to ignore gapless playback, about as much as Microsoft ignores Flacs. 

[rastasean]

gapped playback doesn't bother me so much but couldn't you just NOT divide the recording into tracks and have it playback one long track? I don't know if this is possible, I'm wondering myself.

[H₂O]

Don't forget the Sound Devices 7xx series - they are portable and play FLAC16 and FLAC24 - And I am pretty sure they are gapless 

[NOLAfishwater]

I use a cowon media player and it takes sdhc cards for quick transfers. Cheap too

[Big Perm]

I am looking at this one: COWON J3 32 GB Portable Media Player
I cant figure out if it supports 24b however...anyone know?
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[Big Perm]

Just got the Cowon iAudio9. LOVE it. Sound is amazing. Plays 16b flac gapless I have not tried 24b but I heard you can not. Either way this thing is still fantastic. Small light weight and  sound smokes my old iPod.

[ShawnF]

Just got one, too--also had great success with gapless 16-bit FLAC, but 24-bit does not play for me, which is as I expected.  Sound is very good, as you say.  Excellent player, IMO.

Just got the Cowon iAudio9. LOVE it. Sound is amazing. Plays 16b flac gapless I have not tried 24b but I heard you can not. Either way this thing is still fantastic. Small light weight and  sound smokes my old iPod.

[bobinchicago]

FWIW, Rockbox on an iPod Video (I think it's the fifth generation) plays gapless FLAC. The iPod was a refurb off of Woot some months ago. I can't vouch for 24-bit specifically but I'll see if I can test that within the next week or so. http://www.rockbox.org for the deets.

[George]

How about that new Cowon X7 160GB touchscreen mp3 player? 

[weroflu]

anyone know if you can put a larger hard drive in one of those cowon players...