CD quality?? I'm SURE I'm missing the point but aren't the songs on your iPod are already compessed in a lossly format and have already lost the CD quality...I dinna really fancy having to re-encode all my tracks again...and what bitrate do they come from the iTunes store...not CD quality I suspect...

You are aware that there are other media players than iPods, right? Or... yeah, don't answer that.

By the way, great job piloting Voyager. She'd never have made it home without your skill at the helm...

damn, too late to ask for these for christmas.

They'll be out in time for my birthday tho. cus.. yeah.. thats gonna happen

I want some.

Hey tom! Ever heard of FLAC? Yes it is possible to play FLAC on pocket(ish) size music gizmos.

The compression is. Who cares about CD-quality sound on the headphones when you don't have CD-quality sound on the player?

Not if you rip your CDs properly (and by that I mean avoid the travesty that is Itunes) and use a good quality ripper like EAC and a good quality codec like LAME. A well-ripped MP3 of 256k bitrate or higher will generally be indistinguishable from a CD.

All iPods (except the Shuffle I believe) support at least one lossless format for true CD quality.

Most other (i.e. non-iPod) MP3 players also support one or more lossless formats. So while your pirated MP3s may not sound CD quality. Those of us that rip our own CDs in lossless format know true CD quality from our MP3 players. (BTW it would be nice if this plugged into the digital connector instead of the headphone jack, so we didn't go through the lossy D/A and A/D conversions for an even purer sound.)

Some lossless formats I can think of: FLAC, Apple Lossless, WMA Lossless.