Phil Leigh;362801 Wrote:
I stand corrected! - I can't hear any obvious differences between the
settings on a casual check.
just a data point:
when i rip to mp3 in EAC, i use -q 1
my computer encodes that fast enough. when i use -q 0 i see a really
large slowdown in encoding speed, so i
i forgot to mention, (duh)...
i also seem to recall that i could hear a difference of the -q 9 level
vs higher ones via SC. now, i may be conflating things, but generally
the rule as i recall seemed to be:
anything that went higher from 5 might stutter as the load on the
server increased, and
How does Settings | Advanced | File Types work?
And does Settings | Player | Audio have any impact on it?
If I understand it correctly, SqueezeCenter can convert any given input
file type on the fly to three or four different other stream formats
before sending it to the player concerned ??
If
Andrew - that's a mega-question!
I'll make a start:
1) Slim can't support Apple natively because Apple is a proprietory
format - sorry but AFAIK that will never happen, thanks to Apple.
2) Your player settings are independent of each other - even when
synced.
3) You should set ALAC to stream as
AndrewFG;362755 Wrote:
How does Settings | Advanced | File Types work?
And does Settings | Player | Audio have any impact on it?
They're related. First comes the File Types settings, which is
universal and mostly tells SqueezeCenter what it is permitted to do as
far as streaming and
Phil Leigh;362768 Wrote:
6) LAME quality level is about degree of compression vs. CPU load not
sound quality - leave it set on 9
That's incorrect. It isn't a compression level, but a separate quality
level. This is a LAME setting, so it's only used when bitrate limiting
is set. It would be
JJZolx;362778 Wrote:
The other reason is debatable, but I'll mention it, and hope the thread
doesn't go off on a tangent. Some audiophiles claim that WAV sounds
better than Flac (and some claim Flac sounds better than WAV, so it
goes both ways). This shouldn't be the case, as Flac is
AndrewFG;362795 Wrote:
I notice that on Settings | Advanced | File Types | Apple Lossless, the
dropdown selection box for FLAC offers alac/flac whereas the dropdown
for WAV offers alac.
Does this mean that when Apple Lossless is transcoded to FLAC it goes
through first an ALAC processor
JJZolx;362783 Wrote:
That's incorrect. It isn't a compression level, but a separate quality
level. This is a LAME setting, so it's only used when bitrate limiting
is set. It would be nice if related options like this in the SC server
settings could be grayed out or hidden when another
AndrewFG;362795 Wrote:
I notice that on Settings | Advanced | File Types | Apple Lossless, the
dropdown selection box for FLAC offers alac/flac whereas the dropdown
for WAV offers alac.
Does this mean that when Apple Lossless is transcoded to FLAC it goes
through first an ALAC processor
Phil Leigh;362798 Wrote:
From a sound quality point of view, lossless is lossless and it doesn't
matter how long the code path length is, the sound remains the same...
Indeed lossless is lossless. No dispute on this truism.
But on the other hand if you ask the sound processing to jump
AndrewFG;362812 Wrote:
Indeed lossless is lossless. No dispute on this truism.
But on the other hand if you ask the sound processing to jump through
hoops on the journey from A to B then the more hoops you add, the
higher the chances that something WILL get lost.
{ I hope you guys are
Phil Leigh;362817 Wrote:
I am a designer of VERY large scale computer systems, and I'm more than
happy to state that lossless audio computer software doesn't behave
like analogue electronics! :o). There is no direct equivalent of
transfer loss or generation loss.
There is no sound
AndrewFG;362840 Wrote:
Don't get me wrong. I don't dispute that lossless is lossless. The word
lossless is a definition of meaning and it simply CANNOT be
disputed...
I am not talking about theory, I am talking about practice. I am simply
stating that, in real world systems, as you insert
Phil Leigh wrote:
Yes, the software stack might be so deep that the CPU struggles and the
systems slows to an unusable crawl. I say that's not lossy - it's
broken. The music will eventually stutter and stop.
Flac was designed to be asymmetric on the processing load for
compression and
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