Hi Tom,
I wouldn't rule out a discussion forum here but I would suggest that
www.last.fm when used with the SlimScobbler plugin will get you a very long
way. There's already forums, and very a cool recommendations system etc.
Malcolm
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Pat wrote
With the pre-SB2/3 units, they did only MP3 and PCM native in the
SqueezeBox. So if you kept your music in Flac, it had to
be decompressed on the server and sent as PCM (or raw .wav file).
This uses up a large portion of the real bandwidth available
on a 802.11b network. And the
Hi DitherMan,
Thanks for the comprehensive post, there was some new stuff about 20 bit
DACs I hadn't seen explained here before. As regards volume controls they
have been discussed in some detail before so it would probably be worth
browsing the forum archive.
On the specific point of
maximum.
Well I may be missing something here, because there's no Audio entry on
my Player Settings.
OK, I'll step through this so you can double check . . .
1) I'm referring to the web interface using the default skin. If you've
configured any other skin you can get to default from
Hi CardinalFang,
I'm not anything to do with http://audiofi.co.uk/ I just found it by
searching teh web and forums so I can't help with the extra info - however I
believe the guy that runs it is on these forums somewhere so you should get
a response :)
Malcolm
I've been curious about jitter for a while, and had a few thoughts, but I
don't know if they make sense.
First some observations:
1) jitter is not an issue in the digital connection over ethernet sending
FLAC/WAV data to the SB (here I mean that if it occurs and causes errors
these are detected
A lot of the basics are covered here:
http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?HowtoBestAudioQuality
If you've just set up then it may be that the information in the above will
sort your problem. If it still persists let us know a few more details
(computer spec, slimserver version, wired/wireless
One other significant advantage from the current perl implementation is that
it is relatively easy to make changes and there is an established community
building new features.
While this is also possible with open source in any language I believe it
would take a long time to rebuild the
CardinalFang wrote:
Being able to easily change things isn't necessarily a good thing in a
mature product.
That's where we disagree! :) While the product may be considered mature in
some sense (it is feature rich, stable, and relatively few bugs) I believe
it is a long way from the music
Hi,
I think the common view is that there is no reason why FLAC should be
different to WAV, so there are 2 questions:
1) Is the difference you hear actual or psychological? The best way to
determine this is to do a blind listening test. If you can successfully
distinguish between WAV and FLAC in
No problem,
Let us know your results :)
Malcolm
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Hi Again,
I'll take some time to explain my position (at least so you understand where
we disagree).
QUOTE: it certainly does matter a whole hoot what the CD palyer is. When
playing cds on it.
I AGREE: absolutely some CD players are much better than others
QUOTE: A 24 bit cd played will pick
Here's a conversion script in perl.
It preserves most of the tags . . .
There's hardcoded stuff in there you'll have to change, but it's a short
script and should be 'reasonable' to understand. If you're interested then I
can help a little with the explanations.
Malcolm
PS No documentation -
Your compression ratio (45.5/64.74 = 70%) seems a but high - that said most
of my FLAC compressed files have a compression ratio around 55% so you're
not too far off.
I use FLAC.exe to compress my files with the maximum compression setting.
Malcolm
PS I do know that the type of music can affect
Aylwin wrote:
I would be willing to accept Mike's -good enough- but I have trouble
with -it's only a matter of having no errors-. However, I think one
key point from the definition above is, -The amount of allowable
jitter depends greatly on the application-.
I agree, and possibly the
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