JeffNK;632746 Wrote: > I would like to confirm with forum members an issue I am facing. > > I have an SB Touch operating wirelessly in my audio system connected to > a HDD. Also operating wirelessly elsewhere in the house I have a Boom > and a SB3. As a trial I put some Apple Lossless music files on the HDD > and played them through the Touch. However when I tried to play them > through the Boom and SB3 it did not work. > > I don't run Squeezebox Server continually only when required. I > suspect this did not work because the SB3 and Boom do not recognise the > native Apple files and they require transcoding which in most systems > would be using the SB server. > > Am I right about this or should I expect the arrangement to work? I > chose Apple Lossless because I also wanted to put some of the files on > my iPod. But I may have to choose some other lossless format. > > Would a Duet or another Touch work in this situation if I replaced the > SB3 with one? > > Thanks, > > Jeff
not 100% sure, but I think that the boom and duet and sb3 won't play apple lossless unless played through the SqueezeboxServer (i.e., can't handle these files natively). I believe the TOUCH can handle natively. Of course all the players are really optimized for FLAC lossless files. I use FLAC for my SB players and have a mirror directory of these as mp3 files for use with my ipods/iphones. My use of ipods/iphones (car, airplanes, etc.) doesn't warrant lossless files. And keeping my 60,000+ track library synchronized between lossy and lossless libraries is very simple and requires only a few mouse clicks once setup and organized. (I use dbpoweramp for conversion of FLAC tracks to mp3 tracks). -- garym ------------------------------------------------------------------------ garym's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17325 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=87874 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
