Many thanks, I do realise that they are both lossless and sound the
same, my (mad) reasoning was that if the ALAC files were being
transcoded to FLAC on a real time basis there could be room for error, a
bit like a CD player... oh look a bad bit, I'll skip that, or more
along the lines of I'm a
Also, FLAC is more widely used than ALAC. As a result, it's more
future-proof.
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Themis
SB3 - North Star dac 192 - Cyrus 8xp - Sonus Faber Grand Piano Domus
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shevans;489685 Wrote:
Many thanks, I do realise that they are both lossless and sound the
same, my (mad) reasoning was that if the ALAC files were being
transcoded to FLAC on a real time basis there could be room for error, a
bit like a CD player... oh look a bad bit, I'll skip that, or
Only real advantage of FLAC over ALAC is that you can FF and RW files encoded
in it on the Squeezebox. Big disadvantage is that you can't use iTunes (for
tagging/organising) and iPod with it. If you want FF and RW AND be able to use
iTunes to to tag files you have to resort to AIFF which like
Many thanks for everyone's input, so for the moment i'll stick with ALAC
until such time I get a Touch and want the music stored on a local USB
drive, then its FLAC time...
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shevans
SB 3, NVA P90sa passive pre-amp, NVA A40 monoblock's, Fostex FE206E
based big purple people eaters!
I'm waiting for the TAS review which will undoubtedly use Jazz at the
Pawn Shop as one of the reference recordings. Perhaps in addition to
all of the other amazing sonic improvements that will be attributed to
the Blackbody, the device will actually be to render this dreck into
real jazz. Now
amcluesent;489242 Wrote:
http://radio.cesnet.cz had/have an experimental FLAC stream.
I went to your link. I can stream the 224 kb/s ogg with no problem. Do
I have to treat the url for flac differently?
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Squeezed_Rotel
John M
SqueezeCenter 7.3.3 running on HP MediaSmart LX195 WHS.
Here's a link to the coverage given to this story by the TAS
http://www.avguide.com/blog/linn-products-announce-the-death-cd
While most of the high end audio publications provide coverage on music
streaming devices and systems, often times with very positive reviews,
their bread and butter
