Originally Posted by Teacher49
Just got an iPod. So far so good.
I have been wondering about the long flight/battey issue.
I am wondering if anyone has actually used the devices Apple sells or approves to connect repeatedly and successfully to the airplanes power ports. The discussion so far has suggested that it can be done, but I don't seem to see (m)any folks who made a practice of this.
I'm fraidy cat when it comes to hooking expensive things up to electricity when I am not sure it is OK.
I bought the 40. I - perhaps foolishly - recorded alot of my classical music in the Apple loss-less or mp3 at 192 bits. Big file, I hear, are hard on the power consumption. Since I will use the iPod through some decent sound systems, I do want good reproduction even on those pure tone piece like oboe and violin solos and sonatas. Thoughts?
Best wishes,
Teacher49
With large (lossless) files the file is too large to be buffered, so it has to be read off the constantly spinning hard drive.
The 40Gb has a 32Mb buffer, so compress them using the method with the least compression that keeps the file under 32Mb and you should be fine.