The defaults should be fine. By default: "lossless files will be sent with the best lossless method the device knows how to handle (best meaning 'FLAC' or 'WAV', in that order); lossy files will be sent directly if they are a format the device knows, else they will be decoded on the server and sent in the best lossless format available"
Ie, FLAC and WAV will be sent as FLAC. AIFF will be slightly modified (I believe the main difference between AIFF and WAV is the header and byte order.. transcoding is lossless of course) and then sent as FLAC. MP3's will be sent as mp3's (no reason to decode them and re-encode as flac), etc. On things like the SB1 that doesn't do FLAC, things get sent as WAV instead of FLAC, unless it's mp3, which the SB1 can do natively. Oggs on the SB1 will be decompressed as well, and sent as WAV, since it can't do FLAC or OGG. This changes when you use bit rate limiting, which forces everything to be sent as mp3. Some people believe that FLAC and WAV sound different. This has yet to be proven, though. I've never seen a reason to switch from this logic. -- snarlydwarf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=72703 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
