Hi,
I was wondering what is the best portable music device that supports lossless compression. I have my music collection ripped to APE lossless after many many man hours... actually I'm not finished by any means. I had a DAT portable with 2 hour mixes (Denon DTR 80p portable DAT). I never got into the lossy compressed music... just couldn't handle the qualitly loss. Well, now I'm wondering what is available with lossless compression.
Also, should I ever decide to rip to a different lossless format, would there be an easy automated (one click) way to convert all of my library from APE to another format... sure it might take a while, but please say there is an easy way to do this should the need ever come.
Also, what is the deal with 'rounding-errors' ? Is lossless compression identical to the master, or is it nearly identical to the master--meaning that the ripped lossless copy is 99.8-99.9% identical and after the intital rip, the generational copies are 100% to the ripped copy (i.e, not truly identical to the master copy, but once ripped, then 100% perfect generational copies)??
Thanks,
Chris