The device tells the server which formats it supports and the server will... * Send natively whatever the player supports natively * Transcode to FLAC everything the player does not support natively (plus all uncompressed formats) * Transcode to mp3 whenever bitrate limiting is on. The one thing I'm not sure about is what happens if you've got a, say, AAC format that has a bitrate below the limit and the player supports AAC. I believe it would stay untouched then, but I'm not sure. * if the server doesn't understand the format (e.g. AAC or ALAC on some platforms) but the player does, it will be sent untouched. Not sure about ALAC, though, for which native playback is turned off by default in convert.conf (commented out)
Resampling is a different story and has additional limitations: * if your player doesn't support the sample rate of your material, it will be re-sampled and sent as FLAC, unless bitrate limiting applies * if you sync several players and one of them doesn't support the sample rate, the sample rate gets converted and the same stream is being sent to all players. * if the server doesn't understand the format, obviously no sample rate conversion applies but that only affects ALAC IMHO. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96785 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
