Kenr Wrote: > I currently have my entire CD collection ripped to WMA lossless. I have > them on a Readynas 600 which is a network attached storage device. I now > play my CD's through a MCE pc and I am I tired of having to fire up my > projector or monitors to play music. My NAS now supports SlimServer > but it can't convert WMA so I will need to rerip my entire collection > if I want to go the Squeezebox route. What compressed and uncompressed > formats can Squeezebox play natively, Flac? and others?
Depends on what you mean by 'native' format. The Squeezebox2 itself can only decode MP3, FLAC & WAV (PCM). This is generally what people refer to as native decoding - the decoding ability of the device itself. What this really means is that only these formats can be streamed across the link (wired or wireless) by SlimServer. But SlimServer will have no problem playing WMA and a host of other formats by transparently transcoding the format on the fly during playback. WMA will be transcoded to FLAC with no loss of quality. A couple formats may require you to install some decoding or encoding software, but once that's done the process really is transparent. All it requires is a few more CPU cycles of work by the server. So there's no need to either rerip or transcode your entire collection into another format. -- JJZolx Jim _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
