Jayrcee;691510 Wrote: > I just switched from a PC to a Mac and am in the process of moving all > of my systems files over to my Mac's internal hard drive (presently > formated in the default Mac OS Extended (Journaled)). I would like to > stay within the Mac "ecosystem" from here on out. I would like to to > know what file format I should use for my new WD 2tb external hard > drive that I plan on copying my music collection over to? It's > doubtful I will be working in a Windows environment anymore. I need it > to be compatible with Logitech Media Server and my Squeezebox Boom. On > my PC I had my music scatteredy over 3 NTFS formatted internal hard > drives and I want to consolidate it all on the new 2tb external. > Thanks in advance! FLAC is still best for Squeezeboxes, no matter what OS is on the server. As far as I can tell the support for FLAC in the Mac ecosystem is more limited than it is in Windows. I wouldn't be surprised if die hard Mac fanbois advise you to go with alec...Apple's proprietary lossless format. At least Apple has released encoder and decoder source code now. But that format is far from being anything that can be considered open source. Anyway, the only objection that's likely to be raised about alec is the fact that the squeezebox supports that format only via server side transcoding. If you're ok with that, then go with alec.
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