hawaiijim;537850 Wrote: > The actual playing of music should put a much greater strain on system > resources than a playlist. Not when playing music natively supported by the system (FLAC, MP3 etc) but maybe when transcoding files. From http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/Beginners_Guide_To_File_Formats: Native or Transcoded? In the SqueezeCenter/Squeezebox world, this can be an important difference. The various models of Squeezebox can handle different file types internally, so given (for example) an MP3 file can decode it into music within the box. Other file types can't be handled within the Squeezebox and are "transcoded", i.e. decoded in SqueezeCenter into another format that the Squeezebox does know how to handle (see also: Transcoding). SqueezeBox players natively handle the following formats:
Lossless: AIFF, PCM, FLAC, WAV Lossy: MP3, OGG and WMA (except WMA Lossless): Some earlier models just MP3. See Hardware comparison. Another significant difference for a Squeezebox is that you can fast-forward or rewind with a format that can be played natively, but not one that is being transcoded. -- tipsen ------------------------------------------------------------------------ tipsen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15643 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77156 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
