USING AN IPOD INSTEAD OF A MIDI FILE PLAYER

[steveb]

Hi everyone,

Is anybody using an Apple Ipod to play Wav files instead of midi files through a laptop or midi file player. If you are how do you find the operation, sound quality etc etc etc??

[Stephanie]

iPods are handy and can produce CD-quality sound if you use WAV or AIFF files that have never been compressed (i.e. not derived from MP3s etc.). The tradeoff is that WAVs and AIFFs tend to be huge, limiting the amount of tunes you can store. The other tradeoff is the internal buffering that takes place (usually used for skip-proofing but also to smooth out song transitions). With uncompressed files, the buffer holds fewer seconds of music and can in some cases "run dry" before the hard drive has caught up (or spun up if it went to sleep). The result is the occasional skip or gap in playback at the start of a song, usually after a long song. If this becomes a problem for you, use Apple Lossless compressed files or the highest bit-rate MP3s you can get (more seconds of music in the buffer).

[steveb]

Thank you Stephanie,

You obviously know you stuff, I might go and have a look at a few models and check out some prices, thanks for replying

[jacqui01]

Hi Steve
When I first bought my Ipod, I had intended to use it on Gigs, but to be honest unless I was going to use a fixed playlist which I don't I found it hard to locate tracks quickly, with Mini Disc, I have a book which tells me what disc & track number all my songs are, and it just takes a few seconds to pick a song
Jacqui

[steveb]

Good point jacqui, something for me to thin about, think you