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IPOD CLASSIC 7th Gen, Apple or WAV?

Alright so I might get a new IPOD Classic. I have never owned one, but due to a new car having the USB port capable of controlling it right on the new radio decided it would be nice to have vs. carrying around CD's.

Anyway for the most part I have heard MP3 files in cars, and its not bad, not much different than CD directly. For Car I normally could care less.

Home is a different story, if I decide in the future to hook this up thru a Dock or not I would like to just be prepared and do the best lossless format possible, I don't care about space, the 160 gig on the new one should be fine even with un-compressed files for the amount of stuff I will ever put on it.

So where is the Audio-phile hi end at on the format wars these days? Use apples format, or go to the WAV, FLAC What?

I want it as simple as possible, I will not be using Itunes service for downloading any music, strictly copying the CD's. Which is the final question, not sure if you can do any of this without using ITUNES, but what program and setup do you guys suggest downloading to the Laptop for best CD transfer to an IPOD with best format and of course best user interface? I have plenty of hard drive backup space etc... Once I get the whole CD collection transfered.
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undertow
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albertporter
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One pet peeve of mine is that the iPod is talked of in a negative light, such as, "an iPod is not going to compete with a nice in home CD", this I do not agree with, nor due a number of reviewers.

The question concerned use of iPod in a car, that typically implies that the on board DAC of the iPod is what will be listened to. For that reason it will not be equal to a good home CD player with better DAC.

You basically posted the same thing when you wrote
Most are aware of the Wadia iTransport which bypasses the DAC within the iPod, making the iPod a hard drive based source.
undertow OP
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Well, actually the way my Ipod will be used is via the USB line, so actually my understanding is that the car stereo will be getting the raw digital signal, not an analog already D/A conversion from the Ipod. The car stereo does have DSP and Dac's built in from what I am reading anyway. That being said only thing nobody has answered is how to do it!?

Okay so AIFF as stated is probably the best overall route, I am fine with that, however where is this done? Do you just download your latest version of ITUNEs and as you transfer a CD into the "Itune Library" or whatever you will actually have options of what format to convert this into while saving the file? Or is this gonna take some more work and third party program etcÂ… Besides an easy Itune interface? Again I have not even used it yet, I am very Savvy with all this stuff once I do it, just don't even own the device yet and have no reason to even really get started until I know how basic or complex this will get.

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brianmgrarcom
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Albert,

While I understand that the OP question was related to using it in a car, but a home CDP isn't going to be used in a car either.

Brian
brianmgrarcom
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Undertow, yes, simply download iTunes and then go into the settings and set the import setting to AIFF, if that is what is desired; I also like to check the error corection box. From there start copying your CD's and then plug your iPod into your PC and it will Sync the music over to your Ipod.
undertow OP
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Okay sounds good, Thanks
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