brunodenis;173666 Wrote: > Is there a huge difference between Applelossless, flac or any other > lossless codec ?
This one has been discussed before. 1) Lossless is lossless, so the bits are the same when they are decompressed. 2) They can differ in terms of how much compression they achieve, but these differences are generally negligible. 3) They can differ in how efficiently and fast they compress/decompress. FLAC's decompression is quite efficient and fast, so it may save you some processing time, power, etc., but in most cases it probably does not matter much. 4) The SB can play FLAC natively. ALAC must be transcoded on SlimServer. 5) ALAC is proprietary. Apple can change the rules in the future and there is little you can do about it. FLAC, on the other hand, is open. Your FLAC files are under your own control. Some people care about this deeply, others do not. -- jeffmeh ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jeffmeh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3986 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31879 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
