pippin wrote: > I don't want to "fight" audiophiles. They can do what they want, it's a > free world out here. > > I just ask you for the same things you are asking me for: > > 1. I will say my opinion. I will call out what I believe is nonsense > when I see it. You won't stop me from that the same way I can't stop you > from telling people PCM was the only way to stream right. > 2. When telling people they should make "optimizations" to the system, > tell them about the side effects, tell them that they can't expect the > system to be stable anymore and that things might break. As long as you > (and others) don't do that I will keep recommending not to use these > tweaks. And if people sell stuff as audiophile, they have to tell their > customers what that means, side effects included. > > That's all.
I'm completely with You, other than I'm not selling anything and neither advise people to make any "optimisation", just want keep using LMS as it is and was since the beginning, then I may work to make it better in some aspect i'm interested in (like cue files and wav), but I know 'better' is a point of view here... By the way I'm not telling people PCM was the only way to stream right, but only that is one of the availlable and in some situation - in my opinion - is better than others, when in others (like WIFI, poor network bandwith...) Flac or other could be better. That's the point! Then I'll make you a concrete purpose: The actual way LMS handle transcodind and resamplig is, say, inadeguate? Usage of Custom-convert.conf is complicated, undocumented and - i'm with you with this - could drive to abuse or misuse, then problems. BUT, LMS claims to support transcoding and resample, is plenty of guide on how to do it using Custom-convert.conf and I'm quite sure this cause a lot of calls to your help desk. Shall we work togheter to: a. Define a 'safe' subset of transcoding and resampling options to be supported by LMS? b. Build a simple user interface that replace the usage of custom-convert.conf (and convert.conf and slimserver-convert.conf) and File types, where users could choice only between a closed set of options? Im quite sure there is only one place were those files are read by the server, so it should be feasible with not so big effort (at least producing the files to be read), and I think we could remove at least 30% of problems. What's your mind about? shall we start discussing what's the availlable options should be? I really believe that if we start work togheter we could make things better in LMS, other is just bla, bla, bla... Let me know your mind. ____________________________________________________________ SB+, Klimo Merlino + Kent Gold, Monitor Audio Studio 20 Gold SE+, Klimo reference and DIS Interconnect. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ marcoc1712's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34842 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104227 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
