Yes, I must use it wirelessly so it is a problem for me. Larry
On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 23:20:12 -0800, Phil Karn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Larry Truesdale wrote: > > I'm happy that you're continuing to innovate and progress, but I have > > to say that I'm dissappointed that native FLAC support still isn't > > (and I'm guessing never will be) supported on the first SB. FLAC > > support was the reason why I originally chose SlimDevices and when I > > realized after getting it installed that FLAC wasn't supported > > natively, I seriously considered returning it. However, I took the > > risk and this is how its turned out. Other than that and the related > > inability to seek forwards and backwards, I've been happy. Is there > > any chance that native FLAC will ever be supported on SB1? > > Why is this important to you? Are you running on a wireless network? > > On a wired network, especially at 100 Mb/s, the extra network loading of > uncompressed PCM is just not significant at all. Nor is the load of the > FLAC decoder on the server CPU; here it's just a few percent at most. > > There are some times that the squeezebox buffer underruns when the > server is doing other things like rebuilding its database, but that > could be fixed with some attention to proper priority levels for the > various threads that make up the slimserver. > > So while it would certainly be nice to have native FLAC decoding, I > don't see its omission on the original Squeezebox to be all that much of > a problem, at least for the wired model. I do think the new native FLAC > decoding plus 801.11g support on the wireless model is a very worthy > improvement. I had held off buying a wireless model mainly because of > the lack of 802.11g support. > > Phil > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss > -- Larry Truesdale [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
