I've been agonizing over the choice between ALAC and FLAC. I'm using a Mac, and at the moment using iTunes to organize AIFF files, prior to encoding. I want to use lossless to maintain the quality, and I've been reading the many, many debates over the fact that iTunes won't recognize or play FLAC, but ALAC isn't decoded (server-side) on the Squeezebox or played gaplessly. Plus there's not much Mac software to encode FLAC or rip directly into FLAC. (I think I have all that straight?)
But now I've noticed that Slimserver can convert ALAC files to FLAC before streaming them. Doesn't this mean I can store my music files as ALAC, use iTunes to organize them and edit tags (and even play them), but stream them as FLAC and so reduce bandwidth demands and play them gaplessly? In other words, the best of both worlds? I must be missing something??? -- MartinP ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MartinP's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3513 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20693 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
