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Originally Posted by HarryT
Thanks - I'll do some research on that. As I say, I've not come across it at all.
Since I use my iPod mainly for audio books, quality is pretty much irrelevent to my needs. MP3s encoded at 64k mono are perfectly good enough for the spoken word, and you can fit a LOT onto an iPod at that sampling rate.
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The good thing about FLAC, and the reason I use it, is that it's lossless - MP3 encoding strips out part of the music information for compression purposes. FLAC keeps all of the information, so it's perfect for archiving. You can store FLAC files, and transcode them on the fly to different formats.
If you try to transcode an MP3 file to another lossy format, such as AAC or Ogg, you'll end up with a worse file than you started with, because each format strips out different pieces of the file. With FLAC, you can safely produce MP3, AAC, or whatever format hasn't been invented yet.