ASenna04;166955 Wrote: > I currently have all my music files on QNAP ripped in wav format. I > notice most people use flac. Is there any benefit to use flac in terms > of sound qaulity or processing resources apart from disk space? > > Thanks, > > ASenna04
Well, FLAC is lossless, so sound quality will be identical. There's only a processing cost incurred (on the server) if you are down-sampling to MP3 for lower bandwidth streaming. FLAC is natively decoded on the Squeeze Box. You reduce your network traffic, since FLAC is streamed directly to your player in its compressed form (as is WAV). But since FLAC is compressed that's less KBPS going over your wired or wireless ethernet. You'll still probably have to down-convert for internet streaming though. So, in a nutshell here's what FLAC has over WAV: 1. Losseless codec, sound quality identical to WAV. 2. Reduced file size 3. Reduced network traffic 4. Tagging support -- jeffluckett ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jeffluckett's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31257 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
