The result should be that wav and flac sound identical for the obvius reason that the electrical signal coming out of the Touch is exactly the same . It's not weird to -hear- a difference it's rather inevitable when using some testing methods with humans involved . So your quite normal not weird at al things like this would happen to all of us, that's why some use more strict methods withs humans involved to get more reliable results . Unchecked humans will typically hear differences comparing the same thing then you get results like this .
But the rates presented in the brackets on the information screen are bogus LMS does not measure the actual rate these numbers are just typical values you would get with 16/44.1 example 1411 typical wav rate 705 typical flac rate . Hence the impression that LMS transcoders to reedbook which it does not . It's a bug LMs should just say "transcoded to *some format*" or just transcoded . To have the actual rate , that would be more involved as it has to be picked up from the actual stream somewhere ie the server must also "play" the stream ( useless CPU usage ) or the player must send that info back regularly ( useless network traffic ) . Maybe the methods the server uses for web Radio could be used then you get a number from the beginning of the stream. But is this really needed . But I think the easy and reasonable way is to just adjust the text strings to transcoded , given our single developers limited time . If a whole team where involved a more nice solution could be considered ( this bug has zero real impact on anything ). This has confused users to no end . If you want to see what's really happening with your file format parameters you can set some logging that concerns transcoding to debug and then check out what going on in the log , then you see SoX parameters and which transcoders that's been involved and so on . I can't remember exactly what to set have not done it years . I was also curious how it worked , now I'm quite convinced that it actually works just fine given not to weird settings or hacking of the convert.conf file itself. But it's a good way to see if your parameters and file type setting has the effect you think . The UI is confusing for almost everyone . So this actually leave some audiophiles sleepless :) I wonder if the developers have fun at this or if this bug is so minor that no one spent the time finding those text strings and simply change them -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: Touch + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad1 with iPengHD & SqueezePad (in storage SB3, reciever ,controller ) server HP proliant micro server N36L with ClearOS Linux http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71321 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
