erland;635240 Wrote: > Are you using lossless on your portable devices ? > > Apple is probably focused at portable devices and for these lossless > doesn't make much sense since: > 1. You probably can't hear much difference on a portable device. > 2. You probably don't have the network bandwidth to download lossless > files from iCloud to your portable device. > 3. You probably don't have enough storage space on your portable device > for your whole library in lossless format. > > So even though lossless makes sense as original format or streaming on > a LAN, it doesn't make much sense for portable devices or remotely > stored music files.
RE: 3 >From my understanding, the music delivered from iCloud is at 256K regardless of the "original" format, making iCloud a less-than-viable off-site backup if you have a substantial loss less collection. P -- pski real stereo doesn't just wake the neighbors, it -enrages- them.. It is truly the Golden Age of Wireless ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pski's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15574 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=88188 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
