Hi Guys, As the original owner of this post, I have read through some of the technical measurements Phil and others have come up with. Would we all say its fair to say that the reason we are having these discussions is because there may be too many factors to consider when doing these tests? such as type of sound card being used for the measurements, type interconnects, as they all have different characteristics, Whether diffmaker has been installed properly on the respective PCs. The list could be very lengthy here. I have taken some time to do some research on codecs, file formats. It seems some codecs do a better job than others. Everybody agrees without a doubt that the flac files are identical to wave, in terms of what information each file holds. There is absolutely, without a doubt that the CD converted, whether in FLAC or WAV is the same as the original source. As we all agree with this, lets move forward, what else could be the reason why some can tell the differences, others cannot? My question to everyone is what version of codec software was used in the firmware, when using squeezecenter 7.2. I'll tell you why I'm asking these questions. I recently converted a few of my CD's to AIFF which is the wav file version of apple. Strangely AIFF will play in native mode for 7.2. Unfortunately it doesn't work for 7.4, 7.4.1, or even 7.5. It only plays for 7.4, 7.4.1 or 7.5 when you have "flac/SOX" turned on. It doesn't play natively. Bandwidth is not an issue for some of us, hence we want the full spectrum of the file streamed naturally, not converted to FLAC by the decoder. Why does 7.2 work perfectly and all other versions I have tested doesn't? I will be very happy if one of the slim devices team can answer these questions. You only get a loud audible sound, similar sound to when searching for TV channels on an old TV, say in the 1980's. I think there is a serious flaw in the firmware or software that i am more than happy to input my findings and get this fixed. The only reason why i decided to convert some of my music CDs to AIFF was because the new software versions by default converted wav files to flac. Me thinking by ripping my CDs in AIFF I could get away with streaming the file naturally as its supposed to didn't work for the new versions. It only works for 7.2. How can an older version of software do a better job than the new versions? Can someone also test and come up with the results. I'm confident that this has been missed in the new software. If a wave file is designed to be streamed as wav then i believe it should, same for flac or other formats, rather than using some codec to convert at the background to allow the file to play. In my view i think the software engineers will have to come up with a better solution to this flac, wave, or AIFF issue that will never go away. Not everyone has bandwidth issues, hence i believe strongly the software should be flexible enough to allow you to setup how you want your files streamed, knowing the consequence could be bandwidth. Please do the tests , thus rip a CD in AIFF format, then in the file types section in Squeezserver set the AIFF to play natively, disable "flac/sox". It just wont play the music, It only plays natively in 7.2. I hope this posting will help develop a better software, then there will be no diffmaker tests etc.. if every file is streamed as its supposed to using the right codecs Thanks guys
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