prabbit wrote: > I converted my flac files to Apple Lossless (m4a) for what appears to be > the same reason as you (one set of files rather than two). I also have > two SB3s (and a Boom). Here's what I've noticed. To my ears on my > speakers (Audio Engine 5s) I do not hear a difference. Technically, what > I see happening is that a ~1000 kbps m4a file is transcoded on the > server (Mac Mini) to a ~750 kbps flac file and sent to the SB3. So, > unless you have extremely discriminating ears, I think you'll be fine. > Make sure to back up your files before starting just in case, but it's > lossless to lossless so it shouldn't be a problem.
Note that those rates presented by LMS is bogus server does not know the real rate (old issue, it says the same about24bit files for example ) , the conversion is truly lossles and rate can be different between different lossles formats wihtout any difference in the finally decoded stream , they would both be bitperfect and identical at the squeezebox . I do prefer to use player native formats , on the type of medium sized small server i prefer it is normally not an issue but it does use more server resources to transcode . If one has multiple players and a large familly I begin to see a problem if the server should provide lot of transcoded streams in parallel . ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94619 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
