The last 16 GB MicroSD card I bought cost under $25. I can fit approximately 40 hours of FLAC encoded music and other things on it, not counting the space on my player itself. I'm not trying to argue, just saying that storage is cheap and always getting cheaper, so for me at least, the trade off in sound quality between lossless and compressed audio is simply not worth it.
Heck, with a couple 32GB cards and your player in a small case in your pocket you can have hundreds of albums available in full CD quality.
Some of this depends on headphone quality as well though. I couldn't appreciate things fully until I invested in some higher quality buds for traveling, and decent on-ear headphones for at home.
At 02:07 AM 10/4/2014, you wrote:
Betty, though the clip players play flac files I find mp3 files take up less space. I use flac for storage on my 4t hard drive for archival purposes.dale hayes