Dpfels;237592 Wrote: > Thanks. > From what I gather-by streaming you mean a music stream that is > controled by the Slimserver software and which can be played by logging > into the appropriate port of the Slimserver?
Yes. > My understanding is that there is no way to directly access the FLAC > files from iTunes but have them played as MP3? Not sure what you mean here. iTunes cannot access FLAC files. The FLAC files can be played as MP3 with SlimServer, but only -while you are playing them-. It's a real-time process, no MP3 file is created that iTunes will be able to see. SlimServer uses LAME to construct an MP3 -stream- on-the-fly as opposed to actually creating a file. > Finally, does LAME only control streamed music? Again, not quite sure what you mean. LAME is an MP3 encoder. It takes WAV files and makes MP3 files out of them. It can do this by constructing files (which is what you want) or it can do this real-time, on-the-fly, making a stream (this is what SlimServer does, this is NOT what you want). > Will my Squeezebox still access the FLAC files, or will they be > transcoded as well? You have me thoroughly confused. The FLAC files are never altered. SlimServer will always be able to access them. It can, however, -stream- (rather than -convert-) the files to MP3. If you are referring to the flac2mp3 script I mentioned, yes, the original FLAC files are retained. -- Mark Lanctot 'Sean Adams' Response-O-Matic checklist, patent pending!' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showpost.php?p=200910&postcount=2) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39615 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
