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.
