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Audio is the core feature of the original iPod. Audio quality was not. iPods never supported Ogg Vorbis or FLAC, for example. Ultimately, some ppl like readin
by achompas 15y ago
Audio is the core feature of the original iPod.
Audio quality was not. iPods never supported Ogg Vorbis or FLAC, for example.
Ultimately, some ppl like reading white-on-black text on LCDs at night instead of e-ink. LCDs aren't better or worse, they're just different. Matter of preference.
- jfb 15y ago??? Vorbis is a lossy audio compression algorithm, much like AAC or MP3. I would be very surprised if in a A/B test anybody could tell the difference between comparable bitrate lossy codecs. FLAC was a licensing problem -- when Apple wanted to add lossless, they did so, with a clean-room lossless compressed audio codec.