steelee wrote:
Has anyone actually done any comparison of Lossless Wma vs Flac Or is it
the assumption that flac must sound better?
On the contrary, I believe the assumption is that they should sound
exactly the same.
Each file format is storing a compressed, but fully retrievable,
representation of the original bits. Presumably, there is no problem
here and the bits are being retrieved correctly after decompression.
So, what else could account for the difference?
1)If one or the other is being inadvertently transcoded to a lossy
format by the server. Check your server settings.
2)If one or the other is having its gain adjusted somewhere in the
process. Most likely this would be due to the encoding software either
altering the original data before storage or adding gain tags that are
triggering SlimServer to apply adjustment. Control for this by turning
off SlimServer's gain adjustment features and making sure that the WMA
encoder isn't changing the data. For the latter compare original WAV
data with a copy that has been compressed to WMA Lossless by your
encoder then decompressed back to WAV.
3)That there is some difference caused by the server-side decoding of
WMA Lossless tracks vs. the SB decoding of FLAC tracks. Though this
seems unlikely, it could be controlled for by decoding both WMA Lossless
and FLAC tracks to WAV on the server before sending to the SB.
perhaps others??
--rt
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