FLAC does little to resolve the OP's problem though, he already owns a player, which I assume supports only MP3 and WMA.<br><br>Tommy<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 14 April 2010 13:17, Alan Pope <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alan@popey.com">alan@popey.com</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">On 14 April 2010 12:39, Nigel Verity <<a href="mailto:nigelverity@hotmail.com">nigelverity@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br> </div><div class="im">> I'm a bit of an audiophile, and have a large collection of music stored in<br> > WAV format to preserve the sound quality. Clearly it's not possible to copy<br> > many of these huge files to a portable player, so they need to be<br> > compressed.<br> <br> </div>FLAC is your friend.<br> <br> alan@wopr:~/Music/Jesus Jones/Doubt$ ls -hl 3*<br> -rw-r--r-- 1 alan alan 23M 2010-04-04 20:33 3 - International Bright<br> Young Thing.flac<br> -rw-r--r-- 1 alan alan 33M 2010-04-04 20:33 3 - International Bright<br> Young Thing.wav<br> <br> Not a massive difference, 23M FLAC vs 33M WAV, but it helps, and is<br> lossless. I use Rockbox on my media player, which plays FLAC just<br> fine.<br> <br> Cheers,<br> Al.<br> <div><div></div><div class="h5"><br> --<br> <a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk</a><br> <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/" target="_blank">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/</a><br> </div></div></blockquote></div><br>