Re: [slim] The King is dead;-)

2017-05-17 Thread drmatt
Elvis lives in Reading, everyone knows that. Sent from my ONEPLUS A3003 using Tapatalk -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No less than 3x 24/44k albums..

Re: [slim] Large Backups on a Cloud

2017-05-17 Thread atrocity
bakker_be wrote: > Ehm, aren't we confusing *GOOGLE* drive and *AMAZON* drive here? > > Back to Amazon Drive: > 'rclone' (https://rclone.org/) seems to support it, and it has a "check" > function that compares file hashes allowing you to skip files that > calculate as identical. THANK YOU for t

Re: [slim] The King is dead;-)

2017-05-17 Thread Mnyb
Btw i would not rip to a lossy format for all the obvius reasons Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office:

Re: [slim] The King is dead;-)

2017-05-17 Thread Tex
cliveb wrote: > until ... well, until Elvis appears on stage in Las Vegas, or The > Beatles get back together. Though there have been sightings of Elvis I believe in Vegas I hear Paul is dead... (1) Pi 3 w/ HifiBerry Digi + Pro & piCorePlayer 3.20, (1) Touch, (1) Transporter, Samba w/ 2 TB U

Re: [slim] The King is dead;-)

2017-05-17 Thread Julf
iPhone wrote: > I didn't say MP3 was dead, I said I wish it was and it would JUST go > away quietly. It won't. But it shouldn't bother you if you don't use it. It is still way better than cassette tapes and minidisks. "To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-

Re: [slim] The King is dead;-)

2017-05-17 Thread Mnyb
Its also very much suitable for streaming if you you want a freeish codec other than ogg . Yes 320k is pretty much not possible to tell from FLAC or WAV . Caveat use server side decoding , the mp3 decoders in for example SB3 et al are not perfect ive clearly heard artefacts there

Re: [slim] The King is dead;-)

2017-05-17 Thread drmatt
No idea why the register decided to frame it this way. It's clearly NOT dead. Sloppy headline writing. Sent from my ONEPLUS A3003 using Tapatalk -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No less than 3

Re: [slim] The King is dead;-)

2017-05-17 Thread cliveb
Simple fact of the matter is that pretty much all of the lossy codecs (AAC, Vorbis, MP3, etc) at a suitable bitrate can sound indistinguishable from the original. For sure, AAC and Vorbis can achieve this at slightly lower bitrates that MP3, but for all practical purposes they perform the same. If