Anne;185572 Wrote: > A bit OT, but why would wireless sound worse than wired ?
It won't, Skunk was just trying to dig up obscure examples. :-) The Squeezebox works by TCP/IP. -How- the packets get there won't alter the sound one iota. It doesn't matter how they get there: wired, wireless, pneumatic tube, Western Union, pony express, etc., just as long as they get there fast enough to keep the buffer from emptying. You could actually send it by optical or coaxial digital if you were to construct such a device, but you'd need one cable to send and another to receive. The network also doesn't care what kind of data it is - it's a TCP/IP packet like anything else. It could contain a text document, an image, a video, but in this case it contains audio data which is reconstructed into an audio file. The network doesn't care, it passes it along. The Squeezebox knows what to do with it. > I discovered something strange though, I have ripped all cd´s in Apple > Lossless, yet in the display of SB3 I get "Apple AAC or Film" when I > scroll to see the file format....why is this ? This happens regardless > of adjustments in SS under files.... Apple Lossless is transcoded. From Server Settings - File Types it looks as if you've chosen "Apple AAC, Lossless or Movie File" which uses mov123 for decoding. The "Apple AAC or Film" string is likely passed along when you use this option because a variety of file types can be transcoded using this process and they all have the .m4a extension. The transcoder cannot differentiate between these types. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG-4_Part_14 > The existence of two different file extensions for naming audio-only MP4 > files has been a source of confusion among users and multimedia playback > software. Since MPEG-4 is a container format, MP4 files may contain any > number of audio, video, and even subtitle streams, making it impossible > to determine the type of streams in a MP4 file based on its filename > extension alone. In response, Apple Inc. started using and popularizing > the .m4a file extension. and also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Lossless > Apple Lossless data is stored within an MP4 container with the filename > extension .m4a. While Apple Lossless has the same file extension as > AAC, it is not a variant of AAC[...] -- Mark Lanctot "It's like, you know, a New Age religion, but with better treble response." - Jon Heal ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32999
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