chill;279410 Wrote: > In marginal wifi situations, the reduced bandwidth required for FLAC > transmission might just be a benefit.
In addition to halving the streaming rate, it also effectively doubles the buffer size. Also if you have to copy a music collection from one hard drive to another, even if space is free, drive throughput is quite limited and having it half the size makes it much more manageable. Basically there is every reason to use FLAC and no reason not to use it, even if storage were free. The CPU cost is negligible but the bandwidth savings and metadata support are huge advantages. -- seanadams ------------------------------------------------------------------------ seanadams's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=44532 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
