My portable CD player got stolen.

My boombox broke down.

That's it...I'm makin' the jump and getting an ipod!

(phew...I knew it would come to this eventually) :-)

I'm picking mine up today and going with the 80GB model.

Here's my initial question...

For the best ratio of sound quality to compression...

What format should I encode with itunes? mp3? etc?

I'm looking at a previous thread and it said "apple lossless" was better than mp3.

And what bit rate should I encode to?

I'm getting the 80GB because I want to encode to higher quality files.

But I also don't want to go overboard and use more bits/bytes than I can
really...hear.

Any suggestions, thoughts?

Thanks much!

-todd amodeo

http://toddamodeo.com