This is my approach, too, for the same reason coupled with my perfect contentment with iTunes' tagging and cataloguing, which therefore disqualifies FLAC. AIFF retains tags, as you suggest.
I've found no issues apart from disc space, unless you intend to use a wireless network and your signal is less than perfect, in which case you may find you get a significant amount of dropping out depending on how bad the signal is, and possibly how quick the machine on which you're running SqueezeCenter is. You may find that you need to use either bridging (Airport Extreme to Airport Express or equivalents; then ethernet connection from Airport Express to SB - incredibly easy to set up) or else ethernet throughout. I am now using the latter using ethernet over mains (Homeplug) which works superbly even on very ancient and chaotic mains wiring. iPeng control is still via Airport. The disc space issue matters only when using iPods. I've recently got round that by making a separate library specifically for iPod use, consisting only of ALAC and iTunes+ AAC. It seems to work. Squeezecenter uses the main library and now therefore shows only AIFF and a few ALAC files I haven't got round to converting yet. Hope that helps. On 15 Oct 2009, at 04:05, USAudio wrote: > > I miss not being able to seek (FWD, REW) on a track with my SB3 so I > plan on converting my entire collection in iTunes (OSX) from Apple > Lossless to AIFF. When completed I plan on deleting all the Apple > Lossless versions. > > Before I do so, are there any gotchas I may not be aware of? > > - Files are larger but I have plenty of disk space. > - AIFF retains tags just like Apple Lossless, correct? > - Other issues? > > I spent many many hours ripping a good portion of my collection from > CD > ... am I going to regret this or should I just go for it?! > > Any comments or words of wisdom appreciated. > Thanks! > > > -- > USAudio > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > USAudio's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php? > userid=8580 > View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=69800 > > _______________________________________________ > discuss mailing list > discuss@lists.slimdevices.com > http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
