ALAC is also a lossless format, although yes, it is proprietary (which is why it's also known as Apple Lossless, I suppose......)
AIFF is well supported and tools are available to handle it, (including those in Squeezebox/server). On 15 Jan 2010, at 16:54, wavfan wrote: > > My 2 cents on this: > > You should definitely use a lossles format : FLAC, WAV or AIFF. > The latter is afaik a "proprietary format", i.e. you can risk that some > of the tools available are not able to handle it. FLAC and WAV are by > far the most common one's. > When we have 1TB MP3-players, they should perhaps be called > FLAC-players in stead ? > > Personally I use WAV format - and live with that. > As mentioned, FLAC will give you possibilities for update of album-art > and various tags. The tagging is mostly a blessing, what I can > understand, but it may cause trouble for some.... You should plan your > library structure and your tags. Think that old forum threads here will > help you. > > Regarding streaming: I have a setup using an "old" XP-notebook, sending > to access point, and the from there to SB3 (passsing the SB3 along the > way). Haven't had any problems with that. Notebook network is about 4% > utilized, on average. (G-mode like). Any problems should come from > CPU-load (other applications than SC), or interference from other wi-fi. > > > -- > wavfan > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > wavfan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=32277 > View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74046 > > _______________________________________________ > discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
