ste1 wrote: > Great - thanks for the explanation. I was just wondering if lossless > encoding always gave you lossless decoding on squeezebox given the > different reported bitrates.
Yes. For any SqueezeBox sold in the past 4 or so years that supports native Flac. > Next question - what is 'bandwidth' and does this have an effect on > streaming flac files wirelssly to squeezebox? If so what do I need to > look out for? The flac stream is smaller than the raw PCM stream would be (~1.4mbs) by the success factor of the compression. But its still fairly big, usually 700kbs to 900kbs. With a 802.11b network, you will have issues. But modern SB are 802.11g, which gives four or so times the bandwidth. Do not believe the numbers claimed by router folks, you never see a real 11mbs on an 11b system, and you never see 54mbs on an 11g system. Maybe you can get a third of the claimed speed on a good day. Sadly the frequency spectrum of the WiFi bands is crowded, and sometimes your neighbor hogs the bandwidth. Or your microwave. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
