On Dec 15, 2005, at 11:35 PM, samlw wrote:
Sorry, perhaps I made an invalid assumption. I assumed Apple Lossless
was just a lossless variant of AAC. Don't they both have the same file
extension?
They are completely different codecs, but use the same wrapper, which
is based on the QuickTime file format.
At any rate, what I want is a compressed lossless format like FLAC or
Apple Lossless that is natively supported by both iTunes and
Squeezebox. My music server does not have the horsepower to convert
the
datastream to another format on the fly. And I don't want it converted
to a lossy format like MP3.
If my music is stored as FLAC, then iTunes won't play it. And if it is
stored as Apple Lossless, then Squeezebox won't play it.
It will, but at the cost of conversion from AAC to FLAC using
QuickTime. Have you found that this conversion is particularly CPU
intensive? My experience is that it is not. What's the speed of the
server computer?
Is there no solution to this that doesn't involve on-the-fly format
conversion on the server?
Not at this time.
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