ipod music files question (1 Viewer)

[Dick Knisely]

Program material somewhat influences my choice but typically for a CD rip I'll run VBR 160/320.

 

[PaulP]

Another question, can you stop and/or turn off the iPod and then resume from the same place?

 

[Scott Merryfield]

Yes, conditionally. Whenever you pause play on the iPod, it will go into a sleep mode after a couple of minutes to conserve battery power. When you press a button to get out of sleep mode, it will still be paused at the same place within your song/album/playlist. However, after about 36 hours of sleep mode, the iPod will go into a "deep sleep" mode to conserve even more battery power. At that point, you will lose your spot where you paused.

The iPod is never 100% turned off (unless the battery is completely drained), otherwise there would be no way to turn it back on -- there is no hard on/off button.

 

[PaulP]

I just got it last night at last and trasfered some albums with AnaPod (thanks, Kelly!). Experimented with it a bit, and I already love it. I'll mainly be using it in the car, which is why I'd like to be able to resume, as you would with a CD in your car stereo. Is pressing Play/Pause for a few seconds put it into sleep mode then? I thought that was Off.

 

[Scott Merryfield]

Since the device needs to be able to "wake up" when you touch the click wheel, the iPod is never completely off.

 

[PaulP]

Gotcha. Thanks. Enjoying the hell out of it. Bought a tapedeck carkit that allows control of the iPod using the car stereo and was blasting some random tracks in the car using the Shuffle mode.

Awe-some!

 

[Jongyoon Lee]

Have you tried AAC at 192kbps? I did somewhat extensive A/B comparison of MP3 and AAC when I first got my iPod, and found the sound quality of AAC much superior. If I remember correctly AAC at 128kbps sounded almost the same as MP3 at 192kbps. I rip all my music in 192kbps AAC.

 

[Steve JD]

Oops! Sorry, disregard...

 

[Scott Merryfield]

I did a lot of comparisons before settling on 192K VBR MP3. I did not notice any difference between 192K VBR MP3 encoded with Exact Audio Copy / LAME and 192K AAC (fixed bit rate) encoded via iTunes. iTunes did not offer AAC VBR encoding when I did this. The MP3 encoder built into iTunes was inferior to EAC w/ LAME, though. I am using Shure E3C earbuds for my listening.

I opted for MP3 over AAC for better compatibility, too. There are not many devices other than the iPod that play AAC, while virtually everything plays MP3 files. I only wanted to encode my music library once.

 

[Jongyoon Lee]

That's probably why I thought AAC sounded better. I just use iTune exclusively for all the audio needs these days. Then I use slimserver from slimdevices to share the music via Roku network music player. Slimserver can transcode a couple dozen formats including AAC, and it works out pretty well for me.