On Sat, 2005-12-10 at 19:38 -0800, Cleve wrote: > I agree - if one is using good quality audio gear, FLAC is the way to > go. I'm not sure, however, how CPU intensive the "on the fly" FLAC to > WAV conversion necessitated by Squeezebox 1 is. I never tried it > before I converted from SB1 to SB3 - and I have a n older computer (650 > Athlon Classic Slot A)
FLAC is designed to be easy to decompress. It is much slower to compress than decompress and much slower to compress than MP3. I ran for ages, 18 months or so on a P3-500 and it was fine. It is decompressed by a microcontroller in the SB2 and SB3 I've got a box of TI MSP430 F1612 microcontrollers in the basement. They are very low powered. Might be tempted to look into a FLAC implementation for it. Its got a D-to-A convertor :-) YMMV and all that. -- Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
