I am using iTunes and sometime use FF and RW, so I decided to convert
all my music from ALAC to AIFF. It worked fine with SqueezCenter 7.3.3.
Now I upgrade to OSX 10.6.2 and SqueezCenter no longer works, so I
upgrade to 7.4.1. Well, problem comes. At the end of every song I
played with my
atrocity;490569 Wrote:
The amount of streaming data will be the same, but ALAC takes up a bit
more disk space for stereo files and a *lot* more disk space for mono
material. FLAC seems to do a better job of compressing data that's the
same in both channels.
Or at least this was true when
I'm afraid I can't answer the specific question, but I can say that your use of
SC is very close (very close indeed) to mine, but that I've had no problems
whatever with 7.3.3 under Snow Leopard.
I too use iTunes and AIFF for all SB music, with ALAC for files used with
large iPods (Mk 4 80Gb)
andynormancx;489671 Wrote:
The data size will pretty much the same, the SB3s will already be having
FLAC delivered to them
The amount of streaming data will be the same, but ALAC takes up a bit
more disk space for stereo files and a *lot* more disk space for mono
material. FLAC seems to do a
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
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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!
Currently all my music is in ALAC, mainly due to having a Mac and
switching back to Squeezebox from a Sonos system and would like to know
please if its worthwhile converting back to FLAC?
I currently own a Radio and two Squeezebox 3 (classic's) and wondered
if there would be any benefit either
There would be no benefit in audio quality or data size. The audio
quality will be identical (they are both lossless). The data size will
pretty much the same, the SB3s will already be having FLAC delivered to
them and delivering FLAC rather than ALAC to the Radio will be about the
same.
And
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