radish;287129 Wrote:
That's only because Apple keep ALAC locked up. That's obviously not in
your best interest, because it made your life difficult, and there's no
technical reason for it, so why do it? I don't see why you'd continue to
support a company who intentionally made it harder than
amey01 wrote:
bpa;287110 Wrote:
SC lets you choose - Apple does not. Why won't Apple support Flac or
WMA Lossless ?
On the Audiophile forum there are a group of users who insist that
server decoder Flac sounds better than SB decoded Flac.
Why is it necessary to have ALAC decoder in the
Well, can just add, that with this page open, and SqueezeCenter running
and music transmitting wirelessly my computer runs a steady 602 MB
usage in memory. I have upgraded to 2GB a year ago.
But, at the same time, just 2 minuttes ago I experienced the music
stopped for a second twice, (playing a
bpa wrote:
This describes the issue and fix.
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5521
I'm no Apple fan, but with their market position it would be nice to
have lossless files that work natively on the iPod and the SB range.
Not if it would mean ditching FLAC though...
Regards,
peter;287098 Wrote:
bpa wrote:
This describes the issue and fix.
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5521
I'm no Apple fan, but with their market position it would be nice to
have lossless files that work natively on the iPod and the SB range.
Not if it would mean
SC lets you choose - Apple does not. Why won't Apple support Flac or
WMA Lossless ?
On the Audiophile forum there are a group of users who insist that
server decoder Flac sounds better than SB decoded Flac.
Why is it necessary to have ALAC decoder in the SB ? The decoders
required in the SB
jaffacake;287104 Wrote:
If I need to convert to something else, a couple of clicks in iTunes and
I can convert my entire library to AIFF and onwards to FLAC etc. Going
the other way FROM FLAC isn't so easy at all.
That's only because Apple keep ALAC locked up. That's obviously not in
your
bpa;287110 Wrote:
SC lets you choose - Apple does not. Why won't Apple support Flac or
WMA Lossless ?
On the Audiophile forum there are a group of users who insist that
server decoder Flac sounds better than SB decoded Flac.
Why is it necessary to have ALAC decoder in the SB ? The
didjean;286256 Wrote:
Maybe this thread can help you:
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38082
Brilliant thread - thank you!
I'll download what they mention and try it NOW!
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AMey01,
That fix was for pre 6.5.4 systems - it has been included into SC.
Also it sounds unlike the problem you're having.
What version of SC/SS do you have ?
What are the values for Server Setting/Advanced/Filetypes for Apple
Lossless (assuming SC7) ?
What security s/w are you using ?
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FIXED - yes, the upgraded ALAC.exe fixed the issue.
I am running SS 6.5.4. ALAC files now skip instantly.
Out of interest, what was wrong with the original ALAC.exe file?
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This describes the issue and fix.
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5521
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funkstar;285617 Wrote:
Yes in theory ALAC could be decoded in the SB3, but there are several
issues to that. Memory is limited in the SB3, with MP3, FLAC, Ogg and
WMA (lossy) already in there there probably isn't enough space for
anything else (I seem to remember reading that Ogg was the
jaffacake;286012 Wrote:
Interesting thread, I didn't realise transcoding was required for ALAC
sources.
No legal complication, ALAC is in the firmware for Sonos devices
without any issues...they don't use a server.
That may be so, but they may have licensed the software. I don't know
the
funkstar;286047 Wrote:
That may be so, but they may have licensed the software. I don't know
the ins and outs of it, I'm just guessing here. It may be the case that
the SB/Transporter could easily have in built playback of ALAC if it
just had a little more flash memory. Again, only guessing
Yeah sounds about right. Like I said, all speculation on my part :)
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Beware of the troll.
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funkstar;286086 Wrote:
Yeah sounds about right. Like I said, all speculation on my part :)
Thinking about this a little more. ALAC decoding in the device is more
important for Sonos _because_ they don't have a server to do the grunt
work. With the Logitech products, the firmware has all
Maybe this thread can help you:
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38082
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amey01;285494 Wrote:
1: Is there any way to speed up the ALAC processing?
Sounds like It is the speed of your server slowing things down. I've
not used ALAC files or any other transcoding really. Someone else
should be better placed to answer that.
amey01;285494 Wrote:
2: I don't quite
Agreed - it's almost certainly your PC that's causing the bottle-neck.
My library is almost all ALAC and it plays/pauses/skips the same speed
as mp3, which is native to the SB3.
With only 512Mb RAM perhaps (if you haven't done so already) you could
cut out uneccesary running services?
Worth an
Thanks for the replies - it looks like I'll be upgrading memory as the
server is SS only - runs nothing else, and I've already tried to reduce
as many services as possible.
At least computer upgrades are cheap - unlike audio upgrades!
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amey01
Cool, I found when running 6.5.4 on my old 1.7 Ghz Celeron that
performance improved noticeably when I stuck more memory in.
Here's a link for some more XP memory saving/performance enhancing
tweaks...
http://www.xpmaximized.com/
Also, it's worth cleaning out the registry if you haven't done
I can't find anything in searching, but maybe I'm just searching for the
wrong thing - I find it hard to believe nobody's raised this. (Sorry if
it's been raised before)!
Anyway - the bulk of my library is in ALAC, but some music is in FLAC.
I've noticed that the FLAC files start and skip
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