Ben Sandee;150995 Wrote: 
> On 10/30/06, CatBus <CatBus.2gi2hb1162227001 (AT) no-mx (DOT)
> forums.slimdevices.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > The original question was posed about WMA--and the bitrate of WMA is
> > irrelevant because it's first decoded at the server and is sent to
> the
> > players as raw PCM, using the highest possible bandwidth!  After
> > server-trancoded codecs, FLAC is the second largest bandwidth hog
> > depending a bit on compression, and the lightest codecs are MP3 and
> > Ogg, depending on bitrate.
> 
> 
> Simply not true for both SB2 and SB3.  WMA is decoded on the player by
> default.
> 
> Ben

Not only that, even if it were transcoded, transcoded formats are sent
by default as FLAC, not PCM.


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