The default settings should give you the best audio quality. It's only when you enable bitrate limiting for a particular player that a file will be streamed in anything other than the best possible quality. In the default file type setting Flac is streamed as Flac and Mp3 as Mp3. Both formats are decoded natively by the Touch, so there's transcoding of either one done by the server. So Flac remains lossless and the Mp3 can't be made any better quality than whatever bitrate that it's been encoded.
If you want to experiment and see if you can hear a difference, you can also stream the Flac as uncompressed PCM by having the Flac decoded on the server instead of at the player. Just change the FLAC FLAC line from Native to Disabled. Be aware that this puts a greater load on the network, so if you're streaming wirelessly and the it's just marginally keeping the Touch's buffer filled, you could experience dropouts during playback. If you're using wired ethernet you shouldn't have any trouble. -- JJZolx ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=82249 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
