2006-09-03-11:48:24 mr_bill: > What about WMA? What about it? It's a nasty Microsoft thing. You don't want to go there.
> I don't imagine that I can use Flac with Itunes - I don't really know > how I would manage two different format systems - Itunes and Flac. That's why, when managing things with iTunes but mostly playing things via SlimServer, I just use AIFF. It's an uncompressed lossless format (but a proper sensibly-defined tagged one, unlike WAV). Its primary advantage in this context is that it's the only tagged lossless format which is handled completely natively by both SlimServer/SB and iTunes. Kind of the commmon denominator -- no server-side on-the-fly extra conversion process required, or anything. Its disadvantage is that it's uncompressed. The lossless compressions (FLAC, Apple Lossless and chums) result in a file around 60% as big as AIFF or WAV. But if you have disk space to burn, there's the compelling just-works appeal of AIFF. And of course, as with any of the completely lossless formats (compressed or not), if you re-engineer your storage strategy at some later date, all your files can be converted to some other lossless format without loss of music bits, no re-ripping required. -Jeff _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
