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      09-20-2011, 02:03 AM   #23
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Thanks for all of the info everyone, it is appreciated. I am only now starting to look at how to get my music collection in to the car and I was sad to hear my FLAC files wouldn't work and now can confirm that converting them to lossless AAC also does not work.

Is MP3 the best bet? Anyone have any suggestions for what they are using? I will be running of a USB key.
I use mp3 at 240. If you can hear the difference between that and lossless in a car stereo, I'd be surprised. It also keeps the file sizes down so I can get pretty much my entire collection on a 32GB USB key.

If you must have lossless, you can rip to lossless wma or lossless wav and they will both work
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Definitely no way I could imagine lossless being useful in the car, was more looking to avoid re-encoding my entire library. Will try some tests on the weekend with 240 vs 320 mp3's and see if I can hear a difference.
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Definitely no way I could imagine lossless being useful in the car, was more looking to avoid re-encoding my entire library. Will try some tests on the weekend with 240 vs 320 mp3's and see if I can hear a difference.
AAC 256VBR I found is the point where I can't tell the difference. However, since you have to re code them anyway, you might as well go with 320vbr .
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