DejanM;324610 Wrote: 
> Hi,
> 
> Thanks for your answers. I read in a Slimdevices Users Guide for Duet
> that when the files are stored in WAV format they will be internally
> transferred into FLAC and then converted further to get SPDIF stream on
> the digital output. Something completely opposite to what I would expect
> ... My interpretation is that FLAC is the "natural" internal format for
> Duet. Can you please put a comment on this ?

It doesn't have to, you can manually adjust the conversion settings in
SqueezeCenter.  All of the Squeezeboxes will play wav directly.

The problem is wifi bandwidth can be very low depending on the distance
between the Squeezebox and the AP.  For this reason they do a lossless
FLAC transcode of WAV files to reduce the bandwidth needs.

What you call "natural" is really "native decoding".  The Squeezebox
supports a number of internal formats for decoding.  FLAC, WAV, ogg,
mp3, wmv.

FLAC is the best because it is lossless, compact, supports tags album
art, cue sheets, and internal integrity checking.


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