thomsens;375101 Wrote: > All else being equal, which lossless format is better for Slimdevices > products overall between ALAC and WMA Lossless? I'm concerned with SC, > transcoding on the fly, requirements of the server (sw such as > Quicktime), etc. No need to bring up other formats such as FLAC, etc., > or advantages of iTunes vs. Media Player. I'm kind of stuck with one of > these 2 file format options for the scenario I'm faced with.
They're both equal for use with SC! Both need transcoding for use on SqueezeBoxen, but how much load the WMA vs ALAC transcoding puts on your processor I don't know. I transcode ALAC to wav, which just runs a process called ALAC and takes, basically, neglible system resources. Of course, if you're running on a low powered machine you may want to try both and see which uses the least resources? But TBH I doubt you'd notice at all on most machines. I used WMA a long time ago, and I found tagging it to be harder work than ALAC - but that was years ago, and before I found mp3tag! -- moley6knipe Win XP Pro SP3 > dBpoweramp Reference 13.1 > SqueezeCenter 7.3 > Squeezebox 3 > ears ------------------------------------------------------------------------ moley6knipe's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10014 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=57059 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
