Jim McCall Wrote: > what is the advantage when using FLAC as a > source? Is it that you only have to stream the compressed file? So > maybe you save 40 to 60% of file network traffic?
They're the same bandwidth-wise, since Apple Lossless would normally be transcoded into flac before being streamed to an SB2. You save a few CPU cycles at the server with flac, since the Apple Lossless has to be decoded and then encoded to flac by SlimServer. The encoding to flac doesn't require much processing, but I'm not sure about the decoding of Apple Lossless. -- JJZolx Jim _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
