Only real advantage of FLAC over ALAC is that you can FF and RW files encoded in it on the Squeezebox. Big disadvantage is that you can't use iTunes (for tagging/organising) and iPod with it. If you want FF and RW AND be able to use iTunes to to tag files you have to resort to AIFF which like .wav takes tons of space, but unlike .wav takes tags as well as does FLAC.
On 27 Nov 2009, at 07:52, andynormancx wrote: > > There would be no benefit in audio quality or data size. The audio > quality will be identical (they are both lossless). The data size will > pretty much the same, the SB3s will already be having FLAC delivered to > them and delivering FLAC rather than ALAC to the Radio will be about the > same. > > And yes, it would be less CPU usage on the server. > > > -- > andynormancx > > Yes, it will. Yes, all of them. Yes, SoftSqueeze as well. What ? > I SAID ALL OF THEM ! > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > andynormancx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17417 > View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71882 > > _______________________________________________ > audiophiles mailing list > audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com > http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
