pablolie wrote: > this topic made me go check my own settings in LMS, and has me wondering > about them. > > if a SB3 or Duet or Touch support FLACs natively (which it does), then > why the settings for "stream format" and "decoder"? why would i want to > "decode" at all? it seems -for example- the FLAC file format can be > streamed as AIFF/FLAC/MP3/PCM. MP3 i guess i get if someone has some > tragic bandwidth issues in their network, but i am not sure why i'd do > any other conversion...? i have it all set to "native" with the other > streaming formats disabled. i only have FLACs and MP3 with a very few > M4a thrown in...
there are many corner cases , for most users this wast arrya of possibilities does not really make sense . So leave them at default dont disable to much stuff one of these days you tune in to a radio station and it wont transcode properly. AIFF streamed as FLAC makes more sense btw ,but as the transcoders are there (faad ,flac,SoX) the oposite is also very possible and its probably by default exposed in the UI even if makes little sense in your user case . Btw the old slimp3 or SB1 could not play flac ! Then there is all the possible softplayers both current and historical . Another example Touch can play Alac and AIFF but not always Hirez Alac or Aiff it bugs out , so if you only have native here and not allow the others it wont transcode . SB3 can not play AAC etc The whole thing is set up to use the best format in almost any case if native is enabled you dont have to disable the other choices. People disable tons of stuff here out off fear that the server by some mistake should send "inferior" formats to the players for example disable the dreaded mp3 format for flac files just in case ! It will use native as first choice only if that does not work LMS tries the other enabled choices . This does not make sense to fiddle to much with this you can create more problems than you solve. You now if its transcoded it says so in in the UI if not then you are listening to native formats . Only mess with this if you get unexpeted results . No Sound or transcodning when you dont expect it to happen . -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
