erland;665802 Wrote: > Are there any advantages of using FLAC now when ALAC is open sourced ? Well, it may have been open sourced but the likes of Logitech still have to develop decoders for it allowing full use of the specification (seek, etc.) so FLAC still has the advantage for the time being.
erland;665802 Wrote: > Is FLAC still better supported in Squeezeboxes ? See above. FLAC is natively supported on IP3K players; I don't think ALAC is even with the current decoder and I'm sure no-one at Logitech is going to try to shoehorn another decoder into what little is left of room in the IP3K firmware. erland;665802 Wrote: > Is FLAC still better supported in other software/hardware players ? Who is to say, but the decoder for FLAC is based on genuine specs rather than reverse-engineering in the case of non-Apple playback devices, so these are going to have to play catch up to get the current spec of ALAC decoder running. erland;665802 Wrote: > The big advantage with ALAC from my perspective would be that suddenly I > can use the same files both in Squeezebox and Apple ecosystem. That is a big advantage if you're an Apple user. As I said in my first reply I'd be happier if Apple adopted FLAC but I guess their corporate pride is trying to keep their format afloat rather than adopt somebody else's. -- paulster Receiver stuck at blue LED state after reboot? Please vote for bug '17462' (http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=17462) Web Interface sending music to the wrong player? Please vote for bug '17144' (http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=17144) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ paulster's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23073 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=91185 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
