[antiRepublicrat]

The Ipod does not support WMA files AT ALL! Converting a WMA file to Apple's format makes the file no longer a WMA file and degrades the quality.

You are, of course, correct*. The best bet is to avoid WMA altogether and go with a better format such as AAC.

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* Unless you convert it to Apple's lossless format. No, not uncompressed, just lossless compressed. It's bigger than the other formats, but I could still put my 7.8 day long music collection on a 60 GB iPod in that format.

[Last Visible Dog]

You are, of course, correct*. The best bet is to avoid WMA altogether and go with a better format such as AAC.

Do you have anything to back this up other than your undying love for all things Apple?

* Unless you convert it to Apple's lossless format. No, not uncompressed, just lossless compressed.

Whenever you go from one compression scheme to another you degrade the quality - it has nothing to do with lossless or not (that only applies to if the file can be reconstituted to its original form which is of very little interest in audio compression).