chill wrote: > Apart from the reduced storage requirement for FLAC over WAV, another > good argument for FLAC is that the same benefit is seen when it is > transmitted to the Squeezebox. In marginal wifi situations, the > reduced bandwidth required for FLAC transmission might just be a > benefit.
Its really not a question of 'might be' flac files are typically half the size of wav/pcm so they much more likely to work under marginal WiFi conditions. And sadly, marginal WiFi are common. Something as trivial as a neighbor adding a WiFi access point can mangle the WiFi in your house. Crudely, cutting the traffic in half will eliminate half the mangling. In practice, its much better than that. Smaller packets sneak through without being clobbered, and can be retransmitted more quickly. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
