Mnyb;598052 Wrote: > 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.
A while ago, I did A/B testing (but not ABX testing) between ALAC and AIFF, and I could not hear a difference. Mnyb;598052 Wrote: > 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). Which may be why I couldn't hear a difference. I thought SB3's could decode AIFF files natively. Could you please direct to where/how to adjust the file type decoding settings to force this, verses transcoding at the server? I'd like to do some comparisons between AIFF > AIFF; AIFF > FLAC; ALAC > FLAC. It took time to figure it out, but I like the iTunes integration, and I'm not in a hurry to have duplicate libraries unless there's a compelling reason to do so. Many thanks! -- weinstro Regards, Rob ------------------------------------------------------------------------ weinstro's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=20169 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=84305 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
