AAC/AAC+ support would be awesome

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Cashew wrote:
I was thinking about that as well…probably going to make some store clerk unhappy this Black Friday…since there is only one way to tell if it is V1 or V2.

I wouldn’t waste your (or the store clerk’s) time. Black Friday marks the 1 year anniversary of when the Rev. 2 Fuzes showed up in the retail marketplace.

Any Rev. 1 units you find are going to be over 1 year old stock, and it’s highly doubtful any retail store will have any that old. Everyone has cut their inventory levels (and the money required to pay for it) to the bare bones. Your best bet to find one would probably be eBay and/or a re-furbed unit from one of the on-line re-furb pushers like TigerDirect, Buy.com or Woot.

Message Edited by Tapeworm on 11-25-2009 11:40 PM

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I think it’s always a good idea to have a lossless source handy, whether it be FLAC or CD Audio.  I don’t mind that the Clip+ doesn’t support AAC.  I think AAC is a bad format to store a lot of music in, because it’s not supported by all players, and for me anyway, the thought of taking a bunch of lossy AACs and converting them to another lossy format like MP3 and getting the second round of sound quality loss in the process makes me cringe.

I have never played around with OGG too much, and since I have a ton of space available on my Cowon S9 and Clip+ with a 16 GB microsdhc card, I don’t know if there’s enough of a reason to go OGG very often instead of FLAC, but I’m much happier with OGG support on my players rather than AAC.

 

I’m thinking seriously about ripping every CD I own to FLAC when I get my new computer, so I can convert to whatever format works on whatever players I have, whenever I need to. That won’t cover my entire collection of music, but a decent percentage of it.