AndrewFG;362795 Wrote: > I notice that on Settings | Advanced | File Types | Apple Lossless, the > dropdown selection box for FLAC offers "alac/flac" whereas the dropdown > for WAV offers "alac". > > Does this mean that when Apple Lossless is transcoded to FLAC it goes > through first an ALAC processor and then a FLAC processor? Whereas when > it is transcoded to WAV it only goes through the ALAC processor?
Yes. > If so, then I would naturally assume that the simpler solution (via WAV) > would be better. Any comments?? Better how? If you get no interruptions in playback then one is as good as the other. If you had a really really really slow server, then _maybe_ only decoding to WAV would be better. > Also what happens at the player end? Is WAV transcoded to FLAC or vice > versa? I may be a bit simple in the head (or I perhaps I am just an > audiophile) but I would imagine that whichever end-to-end path has the > fewer overall transcoding steps, would ultimately be the one that > sounds better?? At the player end Flac is decoded to WAV/PCM. The trancoding doesn't alter the bits at all - nothing is lost. In any case, it can't hurt to try it streamed as WAV instead of Flac. If you connect using wired ethernet it will make very little difference in reliability due to bandwidth issues. If you use wireless and get dropouts, go back to streaming in Flac. -- JJZolx Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=55442 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
