Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Apple Lossless a compromise?
GuyDebord;316806 Wrote: I just changed the settings in squeeze center to ALAC-WAV and I couldnt believe the difference What were your settings before (that weren't so good)? -- jgs jgs's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7538 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34122 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Apple Lossless a compromise?
vincentyan;316197 Wrote: Here is what I did: convert a song of Apple Lossless in iTunes to AIFF, WAV, and MP3 (iTunes doesn't support FLAC so I can't test FLAC). The resulting 3 files are .aif, .wav, and .mp3. Play them with SqueezeCenter. I can only FF/RW the MP3 song, not the AIFF nor the WAV. Any comment? It was strange that some of the AIFF songs in my iTunes library are .m4a files - those imported uncompressed from Grarageband. Well of course this is an iTunes issue and I guess I have to inquire Apple about that. I just double-checked to make sure I'm not losing my mind. I'm not (well not about this anyway) -- I can FF/RW MP3 and AIFF. I also generated my AIFF using iTunes, by ripping to Apple Lossless using Max, then importing the Apple Lossless into iTunes and transcoding to AIFF using iTunes. When you select one of your AIFF songs and right-arrow to get the file's info and then scroll down to see the file format, what does it say? Mine says AIFF, which I presume means SqueezeCenter has recognized it as such. The file extension is indeed .aif. I'm running SqueezeCenter 7.0.1 though I remember this working before too. Another thing to check would be to look at your SqueezeCenter prefs, and go to the Advanced Tab and then choose File Types. See if AIFF is configured to stream natively. If not, change it to be. -- jgs jgs's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7538 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34122 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Apple Lossless a compromise?
jgs;316382 Wrote: FYI, I went ahead and opened bug 8620 (http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=8620) analogous to bug 571, to request FF/RW support for Apple Lossless. ... and it got dup'd and bug 571 updated to encompass Apple Lossless, which is fine. I also noticed another relevant bug, 3345 support alac in hardware (http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3345). Note that you can vote for bugs if you make yourself a bugreporter account. Not sure how much votes actually matter, but I'm just sayin'. -- jgs jgs's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7538 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34122 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Apple Lossless a compromise?
vincentyan;315962 Wrote: How do you fast forward/rewind AIFF files in the Squeezebox 3? Isn't it very easy to convert Apple Lossless to AIFF, WAVE, or FLAC when you need? Sounds like you've gotten your answer with regard to fast forwarding/rewinding AIFFs. (Summary, works with .aif, not with .m4a.) As for whether it's easy to convert Apple Lossless to AIFF, WAV, when needed -- well, yeah, it's not too hard. But since I never know when I might want to fast forward/rewind a song, that implies I need to have my entire library already converted. Which is what I've done, in effect. By the way, bug 571 (http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=571) looks like it may be relevant. -- jgs jgs's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7538 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34122 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Apple Lossless a compromise?
After going through a similar mental exercise I ended up keeping my library in AIFF. The down side of Apple Lossless is that you can't fast forward/rewind it, nor can you with any of the other transcoded formats. AIFF on the other hand is supported natively, so you can FFWD/REW (at least as well as FFWD/REW works at all on a Squeezebox, which in my experience is only so-so). I'd be happy if either Apple decided to support FLAC, or someone fixed Slimserver to allows FFWD/REW on transcoded formats (which would appear to be as simple as transcoding to a temp file instead of a pipe, but maybe there's some reason not to do that which isn't obvious to me). Until then, well, disk is cheap. -- jgs jgs's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7538 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34122 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
