PNCD;204894 Wrote: > In the Thread on ASIO in Windows it is stated that the server streams a > file not an audio stream. This is what I thought. However, in an > earlier post I made about not being able to open WMA Lossless files on > SB3 using Infrant implementation of server, I was told that the Infrant > implementation did not support WMA Lossless. Those two statements seem > contradictory to me. Since I can test that SB3 cannot play WMA > Lossless files from an Infrant implementation I think that means that > something more is being done by the server than just send files over > TCP/IP.
Those statements are not contradictory. Instead it has to do with the decoders in the SB/Transporter firmware. If the decoder is not located in the firmware, the software must transcode it to a format that the player can decode. There is no decoder in firmware for WMA Lossless (there is for WMA Lossy) so the WMA Lossless file must be transcoded at all times regardless of the server OS. I'm not sure about this, but I believe Microsoft never released a WMA Lossless codec, it's contained in WMP and nowhere else (this doesn't explain how you can play WMA in Linux, which is why I'm not sure about this statement.) It appears that Infrant has not built in the appropriate codecs into their SlimServer build so it can't transcode WMA Lossless at all. Two things: 1. There have been ongoing reports of poor performance with Infrant hardware. 2. Why is transcoding so bad? You lose FF/REW, but if you transcode to WAV or FLAC you don't get any sound quality compromises. Both WAV and FLAC support 24/96. -- Mark Lanctot 'Sean Adams' Response-O-Matic checklist, patent pending!' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showpost.php?p=200910&postcount=2) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35630 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
