Kevin Brosius on 3 Jan 2007 22:16:34 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] moving from iTunes to Amarok


On 2007-01-03 19:05, Art Alexion wrote:

...

> 
> 4.  I'm not sure of this last one, but I have heard that the software in the 
> iPod itself converts mp3 to m4a/aac on the fly, and avoiding this conversion 
> by loading m4a/aac files saves battery life.

Wow, there doesn't seem any good reason for that...

> 
> My advice is to keep it as m4a and not convert at all.

Or try gtkpod, assuming you had a ipod as a reason to use iTunes.  It
can sync music between your computer and ipod device, and it seems like
it plays music locally.  I used it to put mp3s on a new ipod shuffle and
it worked great, but I don't have playback setup yet on the new SUSE
10.2 install.

-- 
Kevin
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