pippin wrote: > If these are your settings for FLAC, it means how conversion is being > handled if the player wants to use one of these formats. For example, if > you set AIFF to "disabled" it means that a player can not use an AIFF > stream in case you want to play FLAC. Each player has a list of > supported formats and if you try to play a FLAC file the server will try > the supported stream formats, best quality first. > > So, for example, if you disable everything except PCM, the server will > only support streaming FLAC through PCM. If the player doesn't support > PCM you can't play the file (yes, there are a few software players that > don't support PCM). > > Note that this is primarily for local files. For remote streams there is > an additional limitation in that the server can ONLY encode to FLAC or > MP3 so if you disable these both (MP3 only works if you have lame > installed), then remote FLAC streams will not work. > > Another limitation is that if you ever try to use bitrate limiting, this > always goes through MP3 so you need MP3 enabled, Thanks for your prompt reply. I am moving to flac files by converti g my CDs. Now, which setting is the best in this case? I also read somewhere that you can control the conversion in the server or in the sbt but could not find the post anymore.
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