On 10/05/2010 07:25 PM, tcutting wrote: > I didn't think the SB1 was capable of playing FLAC native anyway... am I > wrong? Were you able to play FLACs on your SB1's without transcoding?
Depends on your exact wording. The SB1 could only play MP3 and PCM/WAV, but the SqueezeBoxServer would automatically decompress FLAC on the fly and send the PCM to the SB1. Worked great wired. With WiFi, it was marginal. The decompressed PCM data took up twice the bandwidth of the FLAC, and the SB1 had a very limited buffer space. The SB2 and later versions could accept flac directly, and had buffers at least twice as big. This effectively gave the SB2 four times the buffer space, so WiFi usage was a lot more reliable. Since the SB1 could not do anything without a server, and the server automatically handled flac files, one could say that the SB1 music system worked fine on flac files. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
