whodeani;561003 Wrote: > I want to convert my music collection to FLAC. Using MP3 now. I listen > to the MP3s at work streaming through Winamp and works fine. I ripped a > CD to FLAC using EAC and I rescanned my music library to the folder > where the FLAC files are. They play fine at home, but when I tried to > listen to them at work they wouldn't play using Winamp. Is there > something else I need to do to get FLAC files to stream over then net?
Does the Winamp you have installed at work support FLAC playback? If you're using an older version of Winamp it may not have installed the FLAC decoder. Newer versions install it as part of the standard installation. With older versions of Winamp you would install the FLAC program installer, which would give an option to install the codec in Winamp. You may not have sufficient bandwidth, either outgoing from your home or incoming at work, to stream FLAC. My library is also in FLAC and I used to listen at work over a VPN connection, but my home Comcast connection didn't have sufficient outgoing bandwidth to support FLAC. Don't trust the speed numbers that your ISP claims they're providing you with - I think I had a 768 kbps upstream connection from Comcast at the time and not only couldn't I stream FLAC, I couldn't reliably stream 256 kbps MP3 without dropouts. To work around this, use bitrate limiting on the player. First, make sure LAME is installed on the Squeezebox Server. Once the remote player is connected to your server it should appear in Settings > Player in the web interface. Go to Audio page and enable Bitrate Limiting at some rate that is sustainable on your connection. Also set the LAME quality level to a higher level from the default 9. -- JJZolx Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80350 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
