bpa;287110 Wrote: > SC lets you choose - Apple does not. Why won't Apple support Flac or > WMA Lossless ? > > On the Audiophile forum there are a group of users who insist that > server decoder Flac sounds better than SB decoded Flac. > > Why is it necessary to have ALAC decoder in the SB ? The decoders > required in the SB are the formats that are streamed (e.g. MP3, WMA, > Ogg-Vorbis and possibly AACplus) so that a PC is not necessary. > > To provide efficient bandwidth use - a lossless compress format is > needed - hence Flac as Alac and WMA lossles are proprietary.
Makes perfect sense. The only reason I suggested ALAC in the SB was because of the alac.exe issue (30 seconds to skip between tracks), but with the new alac.exe the issue is fixed and all is well! -- amey01 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ amey01's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11274 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=45563 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
