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Portable Audio Players

Originally posted by: Aflac
AAC is pretty much proprietary to iPods/iTunes, yes.

What is your question?
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I would like to buy an MP3 player that will play AAC format music, but I refuse to pay for an ipod. I was trying to find out if other players exist that play this format.
 
Originally posted by: n30
If you use iTunes to buy music, you have to buy an iPod for the music to be portable.

Bastards.
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Ok, that begs the next question....

Is there a converter available to convert AAC to MP3 or even WMA??
 
Originally posted by: Electric Amish
Originally posted by: n30
If you use iTunes to buy music, you have to buy an iPod for the music to be portable.

Bastards.
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Ok, that begs the next question....

Is there a converter available to convert ACC to MP3 or even WMA??
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I'm not *too* sure, but I believe dBpoweramp does convert from AAC (it's AAC, not ACC, btw 🙂).
 
Originally posted by: n30
If you use iTunes to buy music, you have to buy an iPod for the music to be portable.

Bastards.
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Wrong, it's time consuming, but you can burn them to a CDR and re-rip them to MP3.
 
Why wouldn't you pay for the pod? I got one free for opening a chase credit account. Personally, I have the Rio Forge and have used it mercilessly for about a year with no trouble.

Good luck,

Gravity
 
Originally posted by: Raduque
Originally posted by: n30
If you use iTunes to buy music, you have to buy an iPod for the music to be portable.

Bastards.
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Wrong, it's time consuming, but you can burn them to a CDR and re-rip them to MP3.
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Sigh. Ok, without stupid workarounds or shady conversion programs, you can't play AAC media on anything but an iPod.
 
Originally posted by: IAteYourMother
why is your music in AAC??
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It would be in AAC if I purchased it from iTunes which, from what I can tell, is one of the better online music services with one of the better catalogues.

Why wouldn't you pay for the pod? I got one free for opening a chase credit account. Personally, I have the Rio Forge and have used it mercilessly for about a year with no trouble.
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I (currently) don't need a multi-gig, multi-hundred dollar MP3 player. I've been living with a 512mb player that's only 3/4 full for the past year. I just want something cheap that will fit my needs.
 
You lose sound quality going from one lossy format to another.

There are flash based ipods that should fit the bill for size, capacity and price.
 
Originally posted by: Electric Amish

I (currently) don't need a multi-gig, multi-hundred dollar MP3 player. I've been living with a 512mb player that's only 3/4 full for the past year. I just want something cheap that will fit my needs.
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so buy an ipod shuffle. ipod nano. used ipod mini.
 
Originally posted by: CKent
You lose sound quality going from one lossy format to another.

There are flash based ipods that should fit the bill for size, capacity and price.
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If you're talking about the shuffle, I don't care for them not having a display.

As for loss of quality, it would have to be pretty bad for me to care. I'm not a self-professed audiophile who claims he can tell the difference between 128 and 196-bit encoding. All my MP3s are encoded at 96-bit and sound great to me.
 
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