Thanks for your quick reply Eric. The only reason I was thinking about going to FLAC is that I understand that all other Formats have to be converted on-the-fly by the SB3...and that FLAC is a native format. I didn't know if this would introduce any issues with large lossless files and the wireless network.
Another thing--- I will be storing very large music files on a central hard drive which will be on the network connected to the Apple Time Capsule. I want to keep a seperate smaller library of compressed (MP3) files direcly on my Macbook...to synch with my IPOD through ITUNES. Can I use iTunes for both libraries from the same Mac? Or will it get confused? THat is why i thought i should use different software. Larry Eric Seaberg;285791 Wrote: > If you want to stick to FLAC as your format of choice, that's OK, but > iTunes won't know what it is if you ever want to convert to something > else for your iPod! As far as I'm concerned, lossless is lossless, > whether it's Apple Lossless (ALAC) or FLAC. I prefer to use ALAC > because of the options I mentioned, i.e. iPod access. > > BTW, just because they call it APPLE LOSSLESS doesn't mean they're the > only guys that designed it! The format has MAJOR influence from Dolby > Labs and others, attempting to make it a universal multi-channel codec > (capable of 5.1 surround) that will work into the future. It's not a > codec to skip over "just because" it's from Apple!! > > Now, that being said, you can use MAX (freeware available at > http://sbooth.org/Max/) which also does FLAC and others, but the BEST > thing about iTunes is the EASE OF USE for dealing with tags! I've had > NO issues ripping my library as ALAC for use with Slim and converting > ALAC to a 'lesser format' for iPod playback. It really keeps things > simple. -- lreinstein ------------------------------------------------------------------------ lreinstein's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14644 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=45595 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
