cliveb;495471 Wrote: 
> So what will the Touch do with a 24/192 stream? It doesn't have the
> horsepower to downsample. And as you say, what about playing 24/96 on an
> SB3 from SqueezeboxServer Light running on a Touch, which can't run
> SOX?
> 
> Lots of non-geek users are going to run a Touch with SBS-Lite. They are
> clearly a major slice of who the new products are aimed at. And they
> might well buy some 24/96 stuff online. So when they connect up that
> used SB3 they got as a bargain on eBay and their 96kHz files fail to
> play, they're going to be confused/miffed. Don't expect them to do the
> necessary research to find out they need to perform a one-off downsample
> to 48kHz using a separate PC.
> 
> I predict that the only practical solution to this issue is the
> reintroduction of the "drop every other sample" firmware kludge - not
> only on the SB3, but also on the Touch for 192kHz material.

Or run a real server , but it would be interesting see what happens if
you gaot an SB3 and one touch and sync them with an 192kHz files as a
source.

This is academic anyway there is not much music available anyway on
24/96 and 90% of it is "audiophile music" that that no sane person would
choose anyway. Anyone with a music interest would sure choose a better
performance of the same music with real musicians .

So it's is much more likely that a squeezebox owner would stumble over
one of the other 1000 open bugs before this one.

The no transcoding issue has far greater implications than hirez files
for example an SB3 don't do AAC or ALAC the Touch is slated to do that
natively.
There are many non native formats what about VMA lossles .
The AAC or lowbitrate ogg issue could hamper some web radio .

The tiny-SC server has limit, so a full blown server is needed in some
cases.
I personally think that the lack of web-UI on tiny-SC will fill this
forum with whining ;)


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Mnyb

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