iwannatouch;516797 Wrote: > I'm in the process of archiving my music (both downloads and CDs) and I > decided to convert everything that wasn't mp3 into m4a files. This > includes all my wav, aiff, ape, and flac files. My goal is to reduce the > amount of space needed to store my music on an external hard drive, and > to "simplify" the data I want my Touch to process by having only two > different file formats (mp3 and m4a). > > Is there anything wrong with my logic? I read somewhere that m4a might > be "easier" for hardware to process than flac. I believe the m4a format > is native to the Touch, so I won't need additional software to convert > files when I play them. I should mention that I'm all-Mac at home. Any > thoughts? Thanks in advance.
It is quite likely that FLAC uses less CPU/RAM than ALAC. http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Lossless_comparison#Comparison_Table -- snarlydwarf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=75235 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
