On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 14:16 -0800, Jim wrote: > But to get back on topic, this is actually an audio issue,
It might be a potential audio issue. > it affects the audio, it questions the true losslessness of the Squeezebox and > raises a question about FLAC. It is only an issue of Flac if the flac format doesn't preserve the flag. This is probably easy to verify looking at the freely available spec and source code implementing the spec. the reason I qualify it as being a potential audio issue is that the only time I can remember seeing the term is in Stereophile Magazine's techincal sidebars, where the author occasionally mentions that yet another mega dollar CD player ignores pre-emphasis. Usually followed by a notation that there have been no pre-emphasized CDs released in X years where X is too long for me to remember. This quickly approaches the old quip about if a man talks in a forest and no women can hear, is he still wrong? If there are vanishingly small numbers of CDs that have pre-emphasis, and most mega dollar CD machines ignore it as well, is it an issue for Flac and/or a SqueezeBox? I would think it is more of a feature. I have more than 700 physical CDs in my basement. I know of none that have pre-emphasis. -- Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
