Triode;518128 Wrote: > So I am wondering if a single selection of "prefer wma" is best now? It > would probably also automatically prefer wma if the player is synced as > this gives the best sync performance. Otherwise it would try aac and > mp3 and then wma. > > Thoughts?
My main use of BBCiPlayer is to stream Live and Listen Again radio to a pair of synchronised Radios, one in the bedroom and one in the bathroom. I have noticed that with Live streaming, when one Radio on, switching on the other causes a pause in the first that can seem be very intrusive (it annoys my wife). A benefit of WMA is that the pause is significantly shorter than with AAC. That, combined with the better sound synchronisation achieved with WMA, suggests to me that WMA would be a better default for users such as myself. The downside of WMA relative to AAC is, I gather, that the sound quality at a given bit rate is worse. But I don't notice it. Also, the colourful pictures that identify the live station that is playing (versus a boring radio mast image) are less reliable with WMA than AAC. I'm not sure that I would ever want to specify MP3 as anything other than a fall-back to AAC, so your idea of making AAC-MP3-WMA an automatic hierarchy makes sense. I did try MP3, but failed to receive BBC World Service so gave up on it. LiveText seems to work very well regardless of WMA, MP3 or AAC. As always, many thanks for your enormous contribution to the usefulness of Squeezebox devices via BBCiPlayer! -- majones ------------------------------------------------------------------------ majones's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13029 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=67098 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
