You might like to read this: http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?BeginnersGuideToFileFormats
With respect to Eric, the comment about the bandwidth of ALAC is slightly misleading, as it cannot be played natively in the SB itself, thus it has to be transcoded (to wave for lossless) in slimserver and so the bandwidth on the network would approximately double that of FLAC. On the other hand, many people have reported that they can hear a difference between streamed wave and flac files on the SB, with the majority who falling on the side of preferring wave. I have a Transporter, not an SB, and I much prefer streamed flac to wave - so it's not clear cut. Myself I use ALAC with iTunes for my iPod and AppleTV, and flac for my Transporter. They are kept on separate discs, which gives me an almost perfect backup strategy by default, but there are other reasons why I do it this way. However, assuming you don't have bandwidth problems, then I would support Eric, and say if you like iTunes, then rip to Apple Lossless (ALAC) and integrate with the SB that way. -- bigfool1956 David Ayers Music is what counts, hifi just helps us enjoy it more ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bigfool1956's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13782 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42736 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
