ipod and dac?

Cwlondon, do you have the latest firmware and software updates? Downloads are available at this site.

Onhwy61

Thank you. Probably not so I will check the downloads.

To clarify my other comments, my "skipping" was not from vibration or jarring.

It is a brief pause or dead space in the music -- only on WAV files -- that seems to relate to the mechanical movement of the internal hard drive. Annoying.

Dont think this would be resolved by firmware. By the way, the chief guru I have met on this subject is a visitor to Audiogon.

Following a previous iPod thread on the tedium of ripping CD's, he has set up a service where he does this for people. UPS your CDs and he will send it all back to you, conveniently copied onto a portable hard drive.

I have no affiliation with Stuart, but have found him to be extremely knowledgable and a very good guy:

stuart@braiman.com

He, too, seems to think that tagging WAV files is not perfectly straightforward.

So I am still a big fan of the iPod device, but do look forward to progress in the lossless schemes and external DACs.

CWLondon, Do you generate the WAV files using the Apple iTunes software? I thought that iTunes knows how to tag WAVs and AIFFs just like MP3s and does so automatically. (Have you also tried ripping a track to AIFF and see if it can be tagged?)

Personally, I would be wary of sending CDs off to someone else to rip them .. it's just so easy to use iTunes or a quality program such as Exact Audio Copy with the LAME encoder as a plug-in.
http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/
Lame: http://www.mp3dev.org/mp3/

I use Media Center -> http://www.musicex.com/mediacenter/ to load WAV files onto my iPod and all tag information is retained.