You wont give up a thing both ALAC and FLAC has very good tagging abilities and can have embedded artwork .
All lossles formats sound the same btw (they are lossles as the name cleverly implies ;) ) so you wont give up anything . If you must use iTunes and iThings to play files then ALAC is the real option for you . What Squeezeboxserver does then is transcode alac to flac on the fly this will up your CPU load while playing depending on the spec of the laptop you may notice (or not) . You may already do this aiff is probably transcoded to flac to minimise badwith use over wifi (depending on settings in sbs) FLAC is a free non-proprietary format supported by more platforms than ALAC . And you SB3 can play this directly . Another way if want two libraries is a lossy one mp3 or AAC for the portables and iTunes, and a FLAC library for SB3 and Squeezeboxserver (and don't use iTunes integration at all ) . -- Mnyb -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH and assorted amps SiriuS, Classe' Primare and Dynadio speakers, Contour 4 Contour Center, and Contour 1.3SE rear ch. Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: SB3 + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) PLEASE FIX BUG 112 http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=112 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=84305 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
