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Re: Portable Flac Players
« Reply #30 on: April 27, 2011, 12:44:05 PM »
Any news on this front?  What is the highest gig player out there that will play 16-bit FLACs gaplessly?  (I'm giving up on 24-bit for now).  Will the Archos 5?  It's got horrible reviews, but I imagine most of that is for functions that I will never even use.  I just need it to play music.

http://www.amazon.com/Archos-500-Internet-Tablet-Android/dp/B002NEGTOC/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1303922357&sr=1-1

I'm desperate enough at this point that I would even consider going the ipod + rockbox route.  I can't stand anything associated with Apple, but I seem to be running out of options.  The biggest one I can find on Amazon is called "Apple iPod classic 160 GB Black (7th Generation)".  Is that the best I can do?

http://www.amazon.com/Apple-classic-Black-Generation-NEWEST/dp/B001F7AHOG/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1303921917&sr=8-4


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Re: Portable Flac Players
« Reply #31 on: April 28, 2011, 01:19:31 PM »
Any news on this front?  What is the highest gig player out there that will play 16-bit FLACs gaplessly?  (I'm giving up on 24-bit for now).  Will the Archos 5?  It's got horrible reviews, but I imagine most of that is for functions that I will never even use.  I just need it to play music.

http://www.amazon.com/Archos-500-Internet-Tablet-Android/dp/B002NEGTOC/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1303922357&sr=1-1

I'm desperate enough at this point that I would even consider going the ipod + rockbox route.  I can't stand anything associated with Apple, but I seem to be running out of options.  The biggest one I can find on Amazon is called "Apple iPod classic 160 GB Black (7th Generation)".  Is that the best I can do?

http://www.amazon.com/Apple-classic-Black-Generation-NEWEST/dp/B001F7AHOG/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1303921917&sr=8-4

if you go the ipod + rockbox route, you need it to be between 1gen - 5.5gen...and it won't work with the "classic" model
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Re: Portable Flac Players
« Reply #32 on: April 29, 2011, 10:38:02 AM »
actually, rockbox has made some inroads with their development on the classic 7th gen.  It's been discussed on head-fi and it appears that rockbox is beta/functional on the 7th gen.
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Re: Portable Flac Players
« Reply #33 on: May 06, 2011, 11:20:43 AM »
for those with a Windows based smartphone, here is what I'm currently using for gapless(adjustable crossfading) FLAC playback:

http://www.conduits.com/products/player/

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Re: Portable Flac Players
« Reply #34 on: September 15, 2011, 08:07:54 PM »
Anybody know anything about the Archos 70?  For less than $300, it comes with a 250 GB hard drive and FLAC capability.  But gapless playback?  Anybody know?

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Re: Portable Flac Players
« Reply #35 on: October 04, 2011, 07:44:37 PM »
So I finally decided to buy a Cowon J3.  It's only 32 GB, but I can add another 32 GB via microSDHC.  First impressions are that the sound quality is very good.  But I may have misunderstood how this was going to work.  I've never owned or used any portable media player, but I assumed that I would drag-and-drop my FLAC folders onto the device and it would recognize that the files are organized in folders.  Well, I copied over 3 folders, and when I hit the "Music" button I'm presented with a seemingly random list of all of the songs.  No organization.  All the tracks just thrown in together.  Is this the way it's supposed to work?
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Re: Portable Flac Players
« Reply #36 on: October 05, 2011, 06:20:31 AM »
I've had two Cowon mp3 players and it is pure drag and drop.  Go into the menus and set the play music boundary or something like that.  I think that you can choose from individual files, folders, sub-folders, and such.  Try it at the folder or sub-folder level and that may work.
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Re: Portable Flac Players
« Reply #37 on: October 05, 2011, 06:58:08 AM »
I've had two Cowon mp3 players and it is pure drag and drop.  Go into the menus and set the play music boundary or something like that.  I think that you can choose from individual files, folders, sub-folders, and such.  Try it at the folder or sub-folder level and that may work.

That helped me immensely.  From the main screen, I clicked on Music, which then gave me several different options.  I had gone to "Albums", thinking it would recognize the 3 different folders as different "albums", but instead it just presented me with one album called "Unknown", inside of which were all of the songs.  Instead of picking Albums I was able to pick "Folders", and then it presented me with a traditional file browser-type interface, with each of my 3 folders there.

The next thing I'm trying to figure out is the display name for the files.  When I was viewing all the songs dumped into that Unknown folder, it labeled the songs according to their tagged names (the song title).  This folder view allows me to play the "album" I want to, but the files are just displayed as, for example, "skellogg2011-05-03d1t05.flac16".  Do people generally create an entirely different set of files, with the song titles in the file names, for transferring to these devices?
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Re: Portable Flac Players
« Reply #38 on: October 06, 2011, 12:11:15 PM »
use foobar 2000 to write all the information you could want on your flac files. title track, band, source etc. I have the cowon iAudio 9 and love it, once i put info into foobar, it shows up on the screen when i play it

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Re: Portable Flac Players
« Reply #39 on: October 27, 2011, 02:06:50 PM »
http://1saleaday.com/wireless/

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Re: Portable Flac Players
« Reply #40 on: October 27, 2011, 06:51:13 PM »
that is a sweet deal
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Re: Portable Flac Players
« Reply #41 on: October 27, 2011, 06:55:23 PM »
http://1saleaday.com/wireless/

Sandisk Sansa Clip+ for $20 today

I can't deal with any mp3 players that rely on correct tagging. I like to drag & drop and to be able to organize files by folders.

Rockbox this player and it can do all of the above. It's small, should sound great (my Sansa  e280 does) & add a 32 GB card and it will hold a fair amount of music as well.
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Re: Portable Flac Players
« Reply #42 on: October 28, 2011, 11:26:11 AM »
I grabbed one of those Sansa Clip+.   look forward to listening to it.  i assume it is only 16bit?
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Re: Portable Flac Players
« Reply #43 on: October 28, 2011, 11:43:43 AM »
I grabbed one of those Sansa Clip+.   look forward to listening to it.  i assume it is only 16bit?

16 bit is what the one I had played. Mine was 8gigs and I had a 2 or 4 gig microsd card.

Word of warning...this thing is SMALL so its easy to lose. I lost mine once and went back to the area I thought I lost it and found it (it was within about 20-30 minutes) but then a few weeks later lost it for good. The clip+ is about the length of 1 1/2 USB thumb drivers next to each other. The battery life was pretty good on it but what I found most annoying is what fmaderjr mentions..it relies on tags to display anything. I guess most tapers don't label the music correctly enough for the clip+ so it usually ended up being one long line of text that scrolled. It was annoying but after awhile I just had it shuffle all the music and skipped a song when I didn't want to hear it. The headphone amp is very surprisingly great, probably equal to my hp120 and I didn't have a problem playing music loud.

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