Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter Ramblings ...
http://flac.sourceforge.net/itunes.html -- bernt 'LastFM' (http://www.last.fm/user/ottovonkopp/) SB3 - SC 7.3.2 - Ubuntu Server 8.04 bernt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1342 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=61804 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter Ramblings ...
There's a virtual filesystem on Linux called mp3fs. Using this you can have just one set of real files in FLAC yet they can be presented as MP3 files virtually. They are only decoded from FLAC and encoded into MP3 when they are accessed. All tags are preserved. I've used mp3fs on Linux successfully (and it works with Samba too, so you can export the virtual mp3 files across a network). It might be worth trying out with iTunes, but it depends what kind of things iTunes does to files in its library...not sure. A quick google suggests it works on Mac too: http://www.uwe-arzt.de/patchmp3fs Darren -- darrenyeats http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/richpub/listmania/byauthor/A3H57URKQB8AQO/ref=cm_pdp_content_listmania/203-7606506-5721503. (Inguz bass EQ'd) SB3 - (pre bypassed) Krell KAV-300i - PMC AB-1 (caps bass EQ'd) Laptop - Genius Slab SW-flat2.1 700 SB3 / Rio Karma / Laptop - JVC UX-C30 / Sennheiser PX-100 darrenyeats's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10799 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=61804 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter Ramblings ...
Mnyb;410397 Wrote: Whats wrong with transcoding on the server for proprietary formats (if you insist on using them ) ? it will load the cpu a bit but a decent mac/pc/server will cope with it. It won't hurt sound quality at all, lossless is lossless. you can have alac transcoded to flac. Yeah, I'm afraid I don't see the problem either. -- JJZolx Jim JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=61804 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter Ramblings ...
MDSmith;410195 Wrote: Am I missing something? Can I stream premium source (AAC+) internet radio to the Transporter and have it play in native mode? Can I play my Apple Lossless in 'native' mode (please no mails on the great Apple nasties - it works, it is solid and it has the market ...). No and no. AAC+ and ALAC both need to be transcoded by the server for the Transporter to play them. There are some very good reasons for this. There isn't enough space in the firmware to be able to have all the codecs out there. There is also the time/cost to port these codecs over to the Ubicom processor vs. the benefit they would give to the customer base. -- funkstar funkstar's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2335 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=61804 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
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MDSmith;410195 Wrote: Can I play my Apple Lossless in 'native' mode (please no mails on the great Apple nasties - it works, it is solid and it has the market ...). I would like the Transporter to stand out (again) as a PREMIUM product. MD Smith Are you saying the Transporter once had the ability to play Apple Lossless natively and now it doesn't? Because if that were true, you might have a valid complaint. Otherwise, no. -- Pale Blue Ego Pale Blue Ego's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=110 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=61804 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter Ramblings ...
Time to junk the apple formats. Sorry. Apple nearly had the market... but now they don't. Dropping DRM was the beginning. Dropping the proprietory codecs will be the end. -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... SB3 (wired) - TACT 2.2X (Linear PSU) + Good Vibrations S/W - MF Triplethreat(Audiocom full mods) - Linn 5103 - Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KATAN/SEIZMIK 10.5), Townsend Supertweeters, Blue Jeans Digital,Kimber Speaker Chord Interconnect cables Outdoors: Boom Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=61804 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
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Phil Leigh;410318 Wrote: Time to junk the apple formats.snip Dropping the proprietory codecs will be the end. I gotta admit, I'm nervous of just this... iTunes is one of the best packages I've used for organizing music, but apple haven't demonstrated that they're really concerned with hi quality. Their low end players don't support lossless, and their high end touch and iPhone products shipped with an obvious bug when playing lossless (random drop outs). Inspite of the fact that I like iTunes, I've moved my Slim audio files out of Apple lossless and into Flac... -- DCtoDaylight Audiophile wish list: Zero Distortion, Infinite Signal to Noise Ratio, and a Bandwidth from DC to Daylight DCtoDaylight's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7284 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=61804 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter Ramblings ...
Thx for the confirmation that I have not missed something (ie. the ability to play AAC+ streaming and ALAC in native)regarding the Transporter. And while I appreciate the comments about 'size of firmware' and 'cost to transcode' there remains this huge presence of iTunes out there. You might not like it but it is there and it is the dominate factor (at least according to the stats I see). So, there must be a middle ground here. I am not going to convert all of my CDs to FLAC so they work with the Transporter as that causes an issue with my iPod. As mentioned, before the proverbial Catch 22! As mentioned, I want the Transporter to be the premium platform for digital music at an audiophile level. What is wrong with that goal / objective? -- MDSmith MDSmith's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15253 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=61804 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter Ramblings ...
Whats wrong with transcoding on the server for proprietary formats (if you insist on using them ) ? it will load the cpu a bit but a decent mac/pc/server will cope with it. It won't hurt sound quality at all, lossless is lossless. you can have alac transcoded to flac. Besides there are some kamikaze pilots ;-) here that insist on having alac and wma lossles on linux based NAS boxes ? that would be like me shopping for cars in uk and complaining that the steering wheel is at wrong side. Use your alac or wma lossles with an os/hardware that has natural support for it, makes transcoding painless (unless you like pain ). -- Mnyb Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=61804 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter Ramblings ...
MDSmith;410393 Wrote: there must be a middle ground here. I am not going to convert all of my CDs to FLAC so they work with the Transporter as that causes an issue with my iPod. As mentioned, before the proverbial Catch 22! I know too well what you mean! I hate maintaining two copies of everything, but that's actually what I'm doing right now... Flac on Linux for Squeeze center, and Apple lossless on OSX for the ipod. But to even get down to two, I had to throw out an ipod shuffle, because it won't do lossless, and iTunes wouldn't allow me to transcode to better than 128... It should be noted though, that some of the problem lies with Apple. AFAIK, they have never released their lossless codec algorithms (certainly not to the open source world), they've only provided hooks to allow you to use iTunes or QuickTime to compress or expand. Those tools that don't rely on Apple software, reverse engineered the codec... That means they're always at the mercy of Apple making changes -- DCtoDaylight Audiophile wish list: Zero Distortion, Infinite Signal to Noise Ratio, and a Bandwidth from DC to Daylight DCtoDaylight's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7284 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=61804 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter Ramblings ...
MDSmith wrote: So, there must be a middle ground here. I am not going to convert all of my CDs to FLAC so they work with the Transporter as that causes an issue with my iPod. As mentioned, before the proverbial Catch 22! I don't understand the problem here. Make your library in flac, point your Transporter to it. Use flac2mp3' to make a complete parallel copy of your library, point your iPod to it. There are 2 Terabyte disk drives for $100, and the MP3 library will be only 20 to 25% of the size of the flac library. Or complain to Apple that they are stuck in dark ages. ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
