Porschefan;572576 Wrote: > Here's my latest discovery: when I press the "+" button on the radio it > brings up a huge amount of information about the track playing. One > of items it says is that the file being played is WMA lossless. On the > bitrate line it says it's "VBR" (variable bit rate--I looked it up ;-)), > @ 900-1000 kbps, but converted to FLAC @ 705 kbps. > > I found this quote: > > "What are the major disadvantages of VBR encoded MP3 files? > > - Some older MP3 players cannot play them. > - Must be re-encoded in order to be streamed. Although variable speed > compressed files are difficult to stream continuously over most > Internet connections, those that download the entire file before > viewing are unaffected." > > So if one is going to stream music, I guess it's a good idea to convert > everything to FLAC as you suggested.
WMA I think may be converted to flac by the server and sent to the device to play. flac is also a VBR format but I understand that the number shown is basically useless as it is just an approximation. It isn't using MP3 VBR. -- lrossouw Louis 'Last.fm' (http://www.last.fm/user/lrossouw) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ lrossouw's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3416 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=81377 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
