I think it is more a case of principal than anything David is what other people are saying when you pay £290 rrp/srp for a portable player that cannot even cope with it's own codec format.
At the end of the day it comes down to subjective opinion on what make's a good codec for your player, some people have $/£30 earphone's, some have $/£250 pair of earphone's to listen on.
Then everyone has different levels of hearing to each other and some people can heat the difference between 320kps and say wav, flac or apple lossless and then on the other hand some cannot. If you can great, people who do will gladly sacrifice the low flash storage memory that is available today to accomodate ultimate sound quality and for the one's that cannot, great they will get more song's out of that 8,16 or 32gb player.
But unfortunetly it does not sort out the original issue of this thread which is Apple lack of technical know how or oversight somewhere along the line in development (do they test there players before going live!) with their own codec.
It is not been helped by the lack of no information from Apple, which it would ne nice at least for them to hold their hand's up and say yeah, we know there is a slight technical issue guy's & girls but we are working in on x,y & z. So at least everyone is content they are at least dealing with the problem and trying to resolve the issue.
Me, personally after much listening between 320kps to wav files can hear a differnce using a pair of Shire E530's and prefer lossless which i why when i got my first Ipod thet Apple's lossless would save some space whilst not comprimising on sound quality.
If it was not for Sony having small flash memory currenlty i would of stuck with my A818 which sounded subjectivley better than the "Touch" and in recent light of this went out and got a Cowon D2 which despite not been as desirable and lack of wifi feature's with various application's this player is again a better sounding machine than the "touch" and i can only get the impression from my first week with a "touch" it is trying to be all singing all dancing short of an i-phone that it has forgotten to be a dedicated music player (my two cent's anyway).
Don't get me wrong the "touch" still sound's relatively good and i love the app's and touch screen, but the ipod could be so much better i feel and after ignoring ipods since they came out the first on ei get has a techincial issue with it's own software!
Let's just hope it is software curiable and will come out in a early 2.3 update?
Sorry for long winded post, get carried away!, just trying to explain to all you good folk having difference of opinion on the subject that it is all subjective opinions and telling a lossless fan that trying 320kps is not going to make them content, after all Apple are not going to say that to their customer's after paying £290 for it! It is down to them to patch their own problem they have caused.
All enjoy the music out there without skipping! 🙂
