mcduman wrote: > I know LMS is bit-perfect at 100% fixed volume, but I have the following > questions: > > 1. there is also an adjustment for remote streams and the default value > is -5. Is LMS still bit-perfect when I mess around with this setting? > Should I keep it at 0? Or is it disabled at 100% volume?
AFAIK this is like a Gain tag for specified remote streams. I didn't think it was applied by default. LMS does not manipulate any audio data. It just works out from volume control, gain setting and 100% setting - what value to put in volume control message in slimproto. Recently this has been tweaked to support balance as there is L & R volume. I would think the 100% setting means LMS sets L&R vols values to max in message. > 2. How is it normal that roon and LMS are not equally loud at 100% > volume? because remember roon is simply emulating LMS You are assuming Roon is doing a perfect emulation of LMS - that is why I suggest looks at the actual values sent to the player. > 3. when transcoding to flac from other formats, i see the following > argument in convert.conf. [flac] -cs --totally-silent > --compression-level-0 -. why is compression level a thing if the output > is exactly the same? Unsupported formats (e.g. AAC for SB3 players) are converted into a lossless format - Flac. This measn AAC is decoded into PCM which has to be re-encoded into Flac. IIRC Encoding Flac is the CPU heavy part of the process - decoding Flac is CPU light. So to minimise load on CPU (a few years ago they used to things like NSLU2 with no FPU in CPU) the compression level 0 is used as it requires the least amount of CPU to encode. > 4. can you or other knowledgeable members give roon a spin and comment > on their implementation of LMS? Not me. (too much other stuff on & to do) but that doesn't stop other users. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=114290 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list ripping@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
