>Keep in mind now that we have FLAC, the benefits of moving >codecs from the server to the device have diminished >somewhat.
.... modulo underpowered servers. FLAC encoding is quite strenuous, as you know, and with multiple Squeezebox2en I imagine that one could run into problems quite quickly de-ALAC-ing and re-FLAC-ing on the server for several tracks at once. (Wouldn't it be cool if SlimServer could, in addition to transcoding on the fly, write a cached version of the transcoded track back into the collection, or next to the collection, or somewhere -- such that next time it needed to transcode track X from ALAC to FLAC, it could use the cached copy of the already transcoded track.) Best; inw -- Ian Whalley <first name> @ <last name> . org _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
