I had a similar problem. Started with my music in ALAC but then moved to FLAC as the support/community is better. Worked fine on the SB3 but I had to get SS to convert to WAV (if I recall correctly) and then stream that. Takes up a lot of bandwidth and I was getting dropouts and slow remote response. The SB3 uses native FLAC so response seems better.
I originally had my iPod running ALAC files but even with a £500 set of Shure 5c earphones it was not at all obvious that the sound was better than a lossy format. Ditto with the iPod in the car (high end BMW 5 series). Basically there is too much extraneous noise to make lossless worthwhile. So my current setup is FLAC for the SB3 into the hi-fi and I used the FLAC2MP3 script to convert the lot for the iPod as MP3 files. I now have 11,000 FLAC songs on the ReadyNAS and the same amount on a 60g iPod as MP3 (256k mostly). When new music comes along I rip to FLAC for the SB3 and then convert to MP3 using foobar2000/LAME and use iTunes to manage. -- Heuer ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Heuer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2543 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34049
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