slimnick Wrote: > One warning - the Linkstation is no good if you want to transcode your > music (i.e. stream AAC files for instance). As such you should only use > file formats natively supported by the Squeezebox (FLAC, MP3, WMA, etc). > However, having now re-ripped all my CDs into FLAC, the quality is > stunning compared to when I used to stream AAC's via my Linux server.
Actually, you can stream AAC and ALAC from a LinkStation or Kurobox, as per a recent thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22404 But that does require another level of tinkering that you probably don't want to get into now. Instead you can burn CDs of any AAC music that you have, and then rip them to FLAC. You won't regain any of the detail lost in the initial encoding to AAC, but at least you won't lose any more. And I heartily second Nick's recommendation on the fieldnetworks site for installing slimserver on a LinkStation. -- aubuti ------------------------------------------------------------------------ aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22900 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
