Jeez, that doesn't appeal to me at all. Personally, my one and only use for mp3s is for archiving onto CDR for use in my car stereo and a 700MB CD destined only for my car stereo is the last place I need bloated dual-stream files. With hacked mp3 players playing FLAC or ALC or good-old WAV or whatever, I'll be surprised if people find a genuine use for this silly thing.

Thanks for posting the find ncdrawl!

Interesting.

Oooh boooooy!!!!!

That does seem really ridiculous. It'd be better just to have a program that rips your CDs into two separate formats simultaneously...

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LOSSLESS MP3

ugh.

MP3 is defined as an ISO standard. It is not lossless.

Ok, so Thomson joined the crowd of people offering a residual coder that goes to lossy.

But it's not (*(*& MP3 and not all encoders are going to be able to swallow that much ancillary data, I suspect.

(shakes head, wanders away)

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you oughta get that looked at you know.

Eh?

can you really tell the difference between a cd and 320 kbps mp3 rip?

note: i'm not a troll, i really can't tell. i've tried many times.

On my system in my room I can hear the difference. I can only speak for music that I'm familiar with. I have tried MP3 files at 320K bps and even at lower volume levels they don't sound right to me. I tried the MP3 route because I entertain frequently and wanted to put on some music and enjoy the festivities.
To solve this dilemma I bought a 500Gb HDD copied a bunch of selections to it in wav format and use my SB X-Fi Pro and software to randomly play selections through my system. I can now enjoy the festivities.

If saving space on a HDD is of concern try FLAC. None of the music is thrown away.

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you oughta get that looked at you know.

Eh?

I was referring to that rambling, incoherent l33t speak as a sign of potential insanity.

No l33t interpreter needed, that is just random key mashing. A universal indicator of anger.

I can think of a much simpler solution, but unfortunately the Itunes software doesn't yet offer it. It would be great if you could set the software to compress the files "on the fly" as you transfer them to your Ipod. (Let's say to 256kps AAC). That way, you could keep everything in a lossless format on the hard drive but put lots of music on your Nano if you need to.

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I can think of a much simpler solution, but unfortunately the Itunes software doesn't yet offer it. It would be great if you could set the software to compress the files "on the fly" as you transfer them to your Ipod. (Let's say to 256kps AAC). That way, you could keep everything in a lossless format on the hard drive but put lots of music on your Nano if you need to.

Yep, I've been hoping for that feature for years.