How does Settings | Advanced | File Types work? And does Settings | Player | Audio have any impact on it?
If I understand it correctly, SqueezeCenter can convert any given input file type on the fly to three or four different other stream formats before sending it to the player concerned ?? If so, what are the parameters of e.g. client PC, O/S, SqeezeCenter, LAN type, LAN speed, player type etc. that determine which actual stream format is sent? All of my music files are in Apple MP4 (file extension .M4A) and 99% of them are are encoded using Apple Lossless. Is this what you call "alac"? The File Types page allows conversion of Apple Lossless to FLAC, MP3 or WAV. I suppose the best stream type for my files is FLAC? Or is it WAV? And are there any circumstances why I would want SqueezeCenter to convert to any other format than the best? Is it safer to disable all but the best formats? Presently my players are a Transporter and a Duet. Perhaps, in future -- when the feature finally becomes available -- I may also play music over SoftSqueeze/SqueezePlay or the audio outputs on the Duet controller... This leads to my next question: does Settings | Player | Audio have any impact on how Settings | Advanced | File Types works? Do any of the player specific crossfade, clock, bitrate limiting, LAME quality level, volume adjustment, replay gain, settings have any impact on the stream format that SqueezeCenter sends? And what happens when I have two (different type) players synchronized to the same music? Finally are there any plans for Transporter and Duet to handle Apple Lossless natively in firmware, and thus eliminate all this trancoding entirely? -- AndrewFG Regards, AndrewFG ------------------------------------------------------------------------ AndrewFG's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15838 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=55442 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
