Hi - new poster here and looking for some guidance on this topic. I have my 500 CD albums stored as flac files on my hard drive. I ripped them using the wonderful dbpoweramp at flac compression setting 5.
I understand that all CDs (= WAV files?) have a bitrate of 1411kbps and are 16 bit in resolution with 48khz sample rate. However when I steam to Squeezebox duet the display on the controller tells me the files are still 16 bit but have a VBR of considerably less than 1411kbps of approx 900. It does n't tell me sample rate. Why the lower bit rate?? I tried setting squeezebox to decode from flac back to Wav and this time the controller said it was streaming flac "converted to 1411kbps ABR" I then tried streaming a file stored as WAV and squeezebox tells me it is streaming at 1411kbps CBR. What is difference between VBR, CBR and ABR in flac/wav terms and does it even matter? I just thought flac would decode itself back to the original 1411kbps bitrate as is ts supposedly a lossless format? Obviously, I am not techically minded so simple answers would be appreciated! Cheers in advance. -- ste1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ste1's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23522 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=40446 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
