I hate lossy compression. I don't want to hear about how higher bit rates are just as good. They aren't, just listen to the original uncompressed recording next to a supposed great lossy compressed one on a high end system or with high end head phones. Lossy sucks.
That being said, MP3s and me don't mix. Yet I'd like a portable without using full uncompressed wav. APE is out since it isn't very popular.
So there's WMA 9 Pro and FLAC.
First, do any portable players use the new WMA 9 Pro? Also, am I right that now JRiver won't support WMA encoding so it's pointless anyway?
I believe Rio supports FLAC on some of their players. So if i upgrade to MC from MJ, I can still use APE on my PC and convert to FLAC for the portable right?
My biggest thing is I could care less about all the other stuff in MC. I have the software I like for video and recording and want this only for my music. I don't mind not using the other stuff because if MC works as well as MJ I'd still pay the $40 for it, but the lack of WMA support worries me.
I need assurance that the FLAC encoding in MC is as easy to use as APE and that MC supports the transfer to players that use FLAC.
Thanks.