amey01;202531 Wrote: > I'm using ALAC - I guess that answers the question - even if it's not > really an acceptable answer that this new, up-to-the-minute squeezebox > can't even provide the functionality of the earliest of CD players! I > still love it though!
Well, think about the process of transcoding - it's taking one format, decoding it, then re-encoding it...all in real-time. Other programs do this, but to do this while feeding a hardware buffer and playing back in real-time is no mean feat. Provided the PC is fast enough, you can do this in one direction, but to skip forward or back you'd have to do this process in a software buffer, and for it to be really effective you'd have to buffer the whole song in software, which means you'd have to wait for the whole song to be transcoded before it will play. That would be unacceptable, you'd have to resort to a fairly tricky workaround. Transcoding is provided as a convenience - it allows you to play far more formats than could realistically be fit in the firmware. Sure, it's not nice if you discover things like this, but the process can be so transparent you didn't know it was going on until I told you. However no other competing product supports more formats, even if it is through transcoding. Typically they support as many formats as the Squeezebox does natively - 4 or so. -- Mark Lanctot 'Sean Adams' Response-O-Matic checklist, patent pending!' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showpost.php?p=200910&postcount=2) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35326 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
