aubuti wrote: > The sound quality of Apple Lossless and FLAC will be the same, so the > choice depends a lot on which "ecosystem" is more important for your > purposes. If you are heavily invested in SBs, then FLAC is the way to go > because Squeezeboxes play FLAC natively. If support for Apple products > is important to you (AirPlay, iPods, etc) then you're better off with > Apple Lossless. Personally, my library is mostly FLAC, but I keep a > parallel lossy copy in MP3 format for use on iPod, laptop, and other > mobile devices because on those I can easily live with the lower > fidelity of MP3. > > If you have several SBs and your comment on iTunes is that it is > "bearable", then my reaction is why bother with Apple Lossless at all? > There are ripping and management tools that support FLAC that you are > likely to find much better than "bearable" (eg, dBpoweramp, Winamp, > foobar2000, Media Monkey, and many others). So why go with Apple > Lossless. > > If your server is capable, there is nothing wrong with transcoding to > Apple Lossless and sending to multiple players. But if the server > doesn't have enough processing power then you can run into problems with > dropouts as the server cannot transcode fast enough to send a steady > stream. > > As for what SBs play natively, this chart from the wiki has a good > listing: http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/Hardware_comparison It > may not answer all your questions, but it's a good start. Hi,
I wonder if I can get an answer within this thread. I have an SB3 served by a LMS library running on ReadyNAS Duo - all works fine including 24/48 files streamed wirelessly. However to continue to support my Apple devices (a number of iPhones, iPods, etc) I maintain files in a FLAC only directory and an Tunes library. Some files are present in both FLAC and ALAC but not all (ACC and mp3 are only present in the iTunes library). Is there a way of telling LMS to only select the FLAC version if a duplicate is present? Currently for a number of Albums I get duplicate track listing within the same album, so you just play the album you get each track played twice (FLAC then ALAC version), which is quite annoying. I want to continue giving the SB3 the FLAC version if present, given its native support. Thanks, Simon. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ simes_pep's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37853 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94619 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
