On 17-Feb-07, at 11:01 AM, Richard62 wrote: > > Most of my iTunes (Mac) files are Apple Lossless. > > Which file format box should be ticked (Slim Server FILE FORMAT > CONVERSION SETUP) for the best sound quality on my Squeezebox 3? > > FLAC alac/flac > MP3 alac/lame > WAV alac > leave all of them ticked. the Squeezebox3 will request the flac conversion first in any case, but leaving them all checked allows you the flexibility of having other transcode options if you end up with any other clients. http connections requesting stream.mp3 (itunes, winamp, xmms) will request mp3 format, and if you end up with an SB1 via ebay, it will request WAV. Unchecking these formats will prevent these cases from being able to play alac tracks.
the FLAC format is going to give you the best audio quality for the bandwidth. If you find that for some strange reason, you have cpu bottleneck issues because of alac/flac running at the same time, you can disable FLAC output, forcing WAV (SB3 will try for WAV if FLAC fails) -kdf _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
