The best format to put music on your Ipod!

Hello people, I just want to know witch one is you favorite pick when you import your music on your Ipod, I am having some trouble getting the right file format to import, right now I am using the AIFF at best quality, I like the sound, but it's killing my ipod, in 11 cds I used the non good number of 5G from the non too much space left on my good and reliable 80G Ipod.

I know that if you want quality sound, you got to let go a lot of space, that's good, but, as I am a music lover, headphone freak, all the stuff that all I am getting into my ipod is from cd's, bought on the stores, yeah, that's right, I've spend a lot of my money, and I will keep on spending more, I dont like the sound of an mp3, it does not sound real, and the worse thing is that I get bored easily with low quality music.

I've been reading a lot about this issue, and I junt want to know your opinion, what do you use, I dont know, lets see what the people use.

Thanks.

 

I can't tell the difference between 196kbps and 360kbps so I stick with the lower rates (160-200) to maximize on space.

 

AAC will save a lot of space. If you want high quality, set it to convert to AAC 360kbs.

Otherwise, sacrifice space.

 

Tonight I am going to try the aac at 360kbs, I used that one a while ago, let me see if the difference between acc 360 and Aiff at best quality is way too much. Thanks for the quick reply's. Let hope that others may do it too.

 

When I rip CDs I always use Ogg Vorbis. It's better than an MP3, but not huge like a Wav. Plus being open source doesn't hurt any either. I'm not sure how big FLAC is, but that's another option if Ogg isn't good enough. (Granted it's bigger.)

Reading up a bit it seems encoding with EAC will make a huge difference with MP3s. I don't think it would make me switch, but it may be worth checking out.