05mattjax wrote: > Thanks. I would have thought bit rate limiting turned on would be better > as in my head that's compressing the file to transfer over the Internet. > Yes, of course, that's why it's on by default. But someone has to do the compressing and iPeng is sitting on the wrong side of the connection to do it. > > So with it turned off what bit rate is being transferred? > Whatever your source data rate is. With FLAC probably ~780kbps. Not good. > > Or with limiting enabled is the server not only converting to mp3 but > also converting to a smaller size so two jobs instead of one? > FLAC compression is already as good as it gets without mp3 or AAC. That's why you DO these lossy compressions, because it's the only way to get a smaller file size/lower bit rate. It's all, mp3 is about. But lame, the default mp3 encoder used by the server, needs a floating point processor to perform well or it's a CPU hog. > > is that a more efficient encoder? > Yes, it's only using fixed point math to do the encoding. It has a somewhat lower quality, though. > > Also would you say this problem will occur on a wifi network outside off > my server as well as cellular? IPeng playback works flawlessly at home > but I guess that's because the server is not transcoding the flac file, > correct? > That's why iPeng has this "split" bitrate limiting option for 3G and WiFi. If you use WiFi and keep the bitrate limiting off (default), the server doesn't need to encode and sends the original data which will work fine (as long as your internet connection has enough upload bandwidth).
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