MikeatUpwey wrote: > Yes I think you and Michael are right. My apologies. However I'm really > finding it odd that my Marantz NA6006 is one of the approved devices for > Spotify Connect but doesn't support Ogg natively. So I'm struggling to > know how it's converting the stream. All I know is that to me, I get > better quality using Spotify Connect that using Michael's plugin. The > plugin should be supplying 320kbit/s Ogg converted to FLAC so should > theoretically be superior to the Connect stream. > Michael
converting the Ogg Vorbis stream to FLAC doesn't actually increase (or change at all) the sound quality of the stream. It is simply converted to FLAC to make it possible for all squeeze devices to play the stream. The FLAC stream is still the same underlying 320kbps Ogg stream in a FLAC wrapper. p.s. The likelihood of being able to detect the difference in a 320kbps Ogg stream and a 256 AAC stream is probably zero, unless the volume of the two streams is quite different. Or there is something odd being done in the decoding, etc. In sum, a high bit rate mp3 file, Ogg Vorbis file, and AAC file should be transparent to the listener. *Home:* VBA2.5 4TB -or- rPi4B-8GB/pCP7.x/4TB>LMS 8.1.x>Transporter, Touch, Boom, Radio (all ethernet) *Cottage:* rPi4B-4GB/pCP7.x/4TB>LMS 8.1.x>Touch>Benchmark DAC I, Boom, Radio w/Battery (Radio WIFI) *Office:* Win10(64)>foobar2000 *The Wild: *rPi3B+/pCP4.0, hifiberry Dac+Pro, 4TB USB (LMS & Squeezelite) *Controllers:* iPhone11 & iPadAir3 (iPeng), CONTROLLER, Material Skin, or SqueezePlay 7.8 on Win10(64) *Files:* -Ripping-: dbpoweramp > FLAC; -Post-rip-: mp3tag, PerfectTunes, TuneFusion; -Streaming:- Spotify ------------------------------------------------------------------------ garym's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17325 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111923 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
