Shredder;260103 Wrote: > Morning. I have been ripping all my music in FLAC (still not done with > project). I recently moved the library from the hd on my desktop to a > Thecus n5200 Pro NAS. In reading posts re: how to set up SS on the NAS, > I understood that LAME encoder was necessary to run FLAC on the NAS. > Hence, I installed LAME (the hardest part of the install). Now, I have > read more about LAME and understand it to stream FLAC files as MP3s. Is > that correct? Have I degraded the quality of my FLACs by downloading > LAME? SHould I delete LAME? Is it necessary to Play FLACS? Am I > hopelessly confused? > > HELP. > > Thanks.
No need to panic. Lame is only needed if you *need* or *want* to play your lovely FLAC files as mp3s. This may be because: 1. you have a slimp3 machine which only understands mp3 natively 2. you have a remote SB2, SB3 or Transporter and a low-bandwidth network connection to your server By default, SlimServer will stream the unadulterated flacs to your SB2/SB3/Transporter. Matthew -- mflint 'GoalRush and LiveDepartures plugins' (http://www.insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/Slim_Plugins) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42410 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
