Jim Holtz wrote: > What is the best setting in file types? Is native not the best choice?
"native" just means the player can play it without conversion. So next what is "best". This is debatable. In LMS terms of audio quality WAV and Flac are equivalent (no data lost). If a player is sent audio in Flac then it will be able to store more seconds of audio in internal buffer and also take up less network bandwidth compared to same audio sent in WAV so "best" in this case is reduced use of network, less network processing (i.e. less processing in player) and also more tolerance to network traffic/problems since more audio seconds in buffer so more likely to give listener a good experience. LMS tries to use compressed audio when there is no loss in audio data (i.e. same bits sent to DAC) so Flac is preferable to WAV. Othwerwise LMS will try to use "native" format compared to a conversion (e.g. TOuch canb play native so AAC sent to Touch but Receiver needs conversion AAC to Flac - no loss in quality, audio still compressed). Worst case convert to whatever format is playable - e.g for a SliMP3 player which can only play MP3 - AAC is converted to MP3 - a lossy compressed conversion. However IIRC with an SB1 AAC would be converted to WAV as Flac not supported and not MP3. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106233 _______________________________________________ Squeezecenter mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezecenter
