------------------------------------------------------------------------ A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103786 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Question: AAC or MP3 - what would you prefer? - I would chose AAC/192kbps over MP3/192kbps, even if seeking within the AAC stream wasn't possible. - I would chose AAC/320kbps over MP3/192kbps, even if seeking within the AAC stream wasn't possible. - I'd rather have seeking than higher quality sound. ------------------------------------------------------------------------
mherger wrote: > More and more services offer streams in AAC. These unfortunately are not > supported on all of our devices. Yet there is one important advantage: > higher sound quality at the same bitrate. Sometimes music services seem > to be in favor of AAC, providing higher bitrates with that codec only. > > On the other hand there are some limitations: AAC online streams can > only be played on SB Touch and SB Radio, they cannot be transcoded > afaik. And you can't seek within a remote AAC stream. If leaving the old > ip3k based players out of the equation: would you prefer AAC over MP3 > even at the cost of no seeking? i voted for 320AAC over seeking (then again, I have a fast internet connection, a robust network, with all my devices connected via ethernet). I rarely use seeking even when possible except with podcasts. But I also use ip3k players a lot (transporter and booms). But since I use LMS rather than mysb.com, I can also listen to AAC on those devices. *Home:* VortexBox 4TB (2.3) > LMS 7.8 > Transporter, Touch, Boom, Radio w/Battery (all ethernet) *Cottage:* VBA 3TB (2.3) > LMS 7.8 > Touch > Benchmark DAC I, Boom, Radio w/Battery (all ethernet except Radio) *Office:* Win7(64) > LMS 7.9 > Squeezelite *Spares:* Touch(3), Radio(3), Boom, SB3, CONTROLLER *Controllers:* iPhone6 & iPadAir2 (iPeng8 & Squeezepad), CONTROLLER, or SqueezePlay 7.8 on Win7(64) laptop *Files:* ripping: dbpoweramp > FLAC; post-rip: mp3tag, PerfectTunes; Streaming: Spotify ------------------------------------------------------------------------ garym's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17325 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103786 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
