know that transcoding to WAV is not insignificant; and am skeptical of the
overhead requirements for FLAC. Regardless, the bandwidth requirements for a
FLAC transmission is greater than that of ogg. I have problems now with
dropouts relating to the transcoding into WAV. I would dispute the fact that
"ogg is the least used format out there". Alot of my friends have already
switched to it, and it has quite a positive buzz in the community - as
evidenced by the growing use of ogg in portable devices and streaming audio. Regarding using FLAC for transcoding, it is "A" solution. I would dispute that
it is totally acceptable. If one were to extend that logic, there would be no
firmware support for any format other than FLAC in firmware. Obviously, that
is not the case. I think it is great that there is FLAC support in firmware
for SB2, but that wasn't my question. My question, again, relates to the
availability of ogg support in firmware - and if it is possible for that
support to be provisioned in SB2.
Quoting Jason jason at pagefamily.net
Transcoding to FLAC requires very little overhead and is lossless, so what is the problem? Ogg support would be nice but it's without a doubt the least used format out there (even apple lossless seems to have more devotees) and slim is providing a totally accepteable solution (transcoding to a lossless format).
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