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What's your favorite audio codec?

I recently installed Rockbox on my iPod. For those of you who are not familiar with Rockbox, it is a replacement OS for portable media players. I recommend going to www.rockbox.org for more information. One of the biggest strengths of Rockbox is that it allows a media player to play almost any commonly used audio codec (including FLAC, Vorbis, AAC, etc).

Anyway, what is your favorite codec?
ledhed2222
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ledhed2222 OP
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Osgorth, I believe that Rockbox supports Monkey's.

I should note that I switched back to the iPod OS for three reasons:

1. Significantly worse battery life with Rockbox
2. Significantly slower performance with Rockbox (this could have had to do with my settings though)
3. No good Ogg Vorbis players for Mac. I got Rockbox to be able to play Ogg, but iTunes really is the best media player I could find for Mac, and it doesn't support Ogg.

All in all, I'd check out Rockbox if you run a PC and don't like using only AAC or MP3, like iPods limit you.
jc51373
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Apple Lossless...A 1:1 file.
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ledhed2222 OP
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Apple Lossless is cool because it's lossless, but it SUCKS compared with any other lossless format I know of, especially FLAC and Monkey's Audio. Both of these formats compress the file much more than Apple Lossless can. Check them out.
jc51373
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I have, and I have used them extensively and listened. I want as little compression as possible, and Monkey Audio sucks.
osgorth
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Jc51373, what do you mean with your comments, "a 1:1 file" and "I want as little compression as possible" ?

Oh, and why does Monkey suck, if you don't mind me asking?
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