Hi drmatt, Greg and Pippin Thanks for your posts. Apologies for this lengthy post but I thought it would be worthwhile explaining quite where I am and why.
My setup, which some may suggest is crazy, is as follows: 1. Raspberry 2B LMS server 7.9 with 0.5 terabyte SSD with the library pointing at one folder with all my FLACs and another folder with mp3-only stuff. 2. which happily serves two wired players (SB classic and Boom) and two wifi players (SB classic and Radio.Clock). All cope OK with FLAC, mp3 and radio streams. 3. an experimental pi Zero config with a PHATDAC using picoreplayer 3.0. And fyi 4. I maintain a separate non-library folder of all my FLACs and mp3-only stuff in mp3 format to support car audio via an SDcard. 5. I use Foobar2000 to sync my main collection to my ipod. If I connect the zero to my LAN with copper everything works fine. If I connect the zero through wifi then mp3s and radio streams are good but FLACs stutter. Having explored this I ended up resigned to this situation given Gordon of IQAudio fame suggests -The zero is also on the limit of being able to decode hires media. Especially if it's on wifi. So make sure the wifi signal is best possible between the two.- This situation gave rise to my original question about -You say I can have duplicate libraries and switch a player from FLAC to mp3 and v.v. However I am not sure how to do this without getting duplicates (FLAC & mp3 versions) in my music catalogue. Please can you explain how I can do this?- So this original query stands. I do not understand DrMatts reply re capped nitrates. -How do I have the server transcode to mp3 only for the pi zero player? And would this put an unmanageable burden on the server? -Excuse my ignorance on this one. I appreciate Gregs comment but I am unsure quite how to resolve the FLAC/wifi issue. I guess my terminology was wrong and as Pippin points out it may well be a bandwidth issue my wifi is good for most things in my house and perhaps this is one aspect where it falls down. Thanks in anticipation for any input in addressing my difficulties. Paul ------------------------------------------------------------------------ my sounds's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=43332 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104772
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