Topic: Portable FLAC player

[dmonkey]

I want portable FLACs because I have a lot of live music in FLAC format grabbed from torrent sites and I have no real convenient way to listen to it all. I hate burning and storing a bunch of CDs, and I really don't relish the idea of converting FLAC to MP3 to listen on my iPod. Someone posted earlier about converting to Apple lossless format for iPod, but again that's another step to take and my computer's kinda slow at doing those conversions. I'd rather just dump the FLAC data onto a device, plug it into my car stereo and listen on my commute. I guess I'm just lazy like that.

Just ordered a refurb H120 off eBay. Should be fun!

[cheshirecat]

Nice.  Please report back and let us know what you think.

I'm basically in the same boat, I have a TON (600GB) of stuff in FLAC that I'd like to be able to just drop onto a player, but instead I have to go through the extra step of converting to MP3 (using db power amp) before dumping it onto the ipod.  That being said I pretty much only use the iPod when I'm out running, last year I trained for the NYC marathon, so it would have been convenient.  I don't see myself doing that again though.

[jerryfreak]

fyi, i have a stack of used karmas and brand new 20 gb drives here.

great player if you ditch the stock buggy drive and replace with the newer gen drives.

I've been using mine (hacked out to 60gb) for years now

[George]

fyi, i have a stack of used karmas and brand new 20 gb drives here.

great player if you ditch the stock buggy drive and replace with the newer gen drives.

I've been using mine (hacked out to 60gb) for years now

whoa, you have a 60gb in your karma?  Nice....I have a karma but the scroll wheel is busted and on occassion it turns into my power button. The battery drains pretty quickly too (6 hrs with mp3's). There are some bad sectors on the HDD as well.  I definitely need to replace it soon.  At least its lasted quite a while, 2 1/2 years and counting! 

[H₂O]

Just get a SD 722 and install the Badger firmware

[prof_peabody]

Just get a SD 722 and install the Badger firmware

... and carry it around in a portabrace while wearing some huge studio headphones...   

[fmaderjr]

Rock Box the i-pod you already have and you can play flac files on it. Rock Box is great for music files (I can't figure out the radio/video for my Sansa) and allows you to play albums by folder if you like. You can still boot into the original i-pod firmware whenever you like.

Check out this link to be sure your i-pod accepts Rock Box:
http://build.rockbox.org/

[powermonkey]

Get one of the new 'iPod classic' models that have been anounced today, rockbox it, and job done.

160 gig!

 

Should keep you going for a while.

[jerryfreak]

yeah, your battery is def. worse for wear, you should get 10-12 hours of mp3 playback on that.

Lemme know when you want to replace that drive

fyi, i have a stack of used karmas and brand new 20 gb drives here.

great player if you ditch the stock buggy drive and replace with the newer gen drives.

I've been using mine (hacked out to 60gb) for years now

whoa, you have a 60gb in your karma?  Nice....I have a karma but the scroll wheel is busted and on occassion it turns into my power button. The battery drains pretty quickly too (6 hrs with mp3's). There are some bad sectors on the HDD as well.  I definitely need to replace it soon.  At least its lasted quite a while, 2 1/2 years and counting! 

[George]

Nice!  I'll keep your offer in mind, because I definitely dont want to stop using the karma when the HDD goes.  I wonder if the battery can be replaced as well. 

yeah, your battery is def. worse for wear, you should get 10-12 hours of mp3 playback on that.

Lemme know when you want to replace that drive

fyi, i have a stack of used karmas and brand new 20 gb drives here.

great player if you ditch the stock buggy drive and replace with the newer gen drives.

I've been using mine (hacked out to 60gb) for years now

whoa, you have a 60gb in your karma?  Nice....I have a karma but the scroll wheel is busted and on occassion it turns into my power button. The battery drains pretty quickly too (6 hrs with mp3's). There are some bad sectors on the HDD as well.  I definitely need to replace it soon.  At least its lasted quite a while, 2 1/2 years and counting!