Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] WAV or FLAC

2011-12-26 Thread bonniepbilly
Yes I mentioned Tag and Rename to tag my wav files. Thanks again for your help! -- bonniepbilly bonniepbilly's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=52669 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] WAV or FLAC

2011-12-26 Thread garym
bonniepbilly;679505 Wrote: > Thanks, works perfectly on LMS. What's SbS? > > In the future you recommend using FLAC? What are the best softs out > there to encode and tag in FLAC? > (for existing wav files I will use Tag&Rename mentioned in the > thread...) Sbs is the name of the pre 7.7 versio

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] WAV or FLAC

2011-12-26 Thread bonniepbilly
Thanks, works perfectly on LMS. What's SbS? In the future you recommend using FLAC? What are the best softs out there to encode and tag in FLAC? (for existing wav files I will use Tag&Rename mentioned in the thread...) -- bonniepbilly ---

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] WAV or FLAC

2011-12-26 Thread garym
bonniepbilly;679494 Wrote: > Hi, > > I have a lot of wav files untagged so nearly impossible to select from > the controller. Can I select the tracks to play from the computer > directly? > > Or do I need to convert wav files to flac and tag them... > > Thanks! Use browse music folder under m

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] WAV or FLAC

2011-12-26 Thread bonniepbilly
Hi, I have a lot of wav files untagged so nearly impossible to select from the controller. Can I select the tracks to play from the computer directly? Or do I need to convert wav files to flac and tag them... Thanks! -- bonniepbilly ---

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] WAV or FLAC

2011-12-26 Thread sgmlaw
WAV/PCM. I don't need all the tagging. The size difference was a good argument ten years ago - today, the difference in audio file sizes are less and less meaningful as storage capacities evolve past multi-TB barriers. PCM is a bedrock standard that has been around for decades. I can always co

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] WAV or FLAC

2011-12-24 Thread paul.raulerson
garym;679070 Wrote: > and lossless is lossless is lossless ;-) > > p.s. I use compression of 5 on my flac files (the default). there have > been situations where highly compressed (8) 24/96 files had some > problems being decoded on some players. Don't think this is an issue > anymore, but the

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] WAV or FLAC

2011-12-23 Thread aubuti
dasmueller;679096 Wrote: > The big advantage of FLAC over WAV is hard drive usage space and as > others have mentioned tag support. And if your home network isn't too great, the increased bandwidth demands of WAV can be a problem. -- aubuti -

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] WAV or FLAC

2011-12-23 Thread JJZolx
The Squeezebox system is somewhat unique in its architecture, being a networked client/server system. Except when using the Touch's internal server, you always have a network server streaming audio to the player. With FLAC files you have the option of decoding the FLAC on the server and streaming

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] WAV or FLAC

2011-12-23 Thread dasmueller
To give you an idea of file size differences between FLAC and WAV, this morning I checked this as my son asked about it last night. For a single album Wav was 663 MB, FLAC compression level 5 314 MB. mp3 at 192kps was 90.1 MB. The big advantage of FLAC over WAV is hard drive usage space and as oth

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] WAV or FLAC

2011-12-23 Thread Soulkeeper
Yes, for 99% of the users, FLAC is way better than WAV. (In my opinion.) -- Soulkeeper -That is not dead which can eternal lie. And with strange aeons even death may die.- — — — 'Bug 17797: Updating wiki.slimdevices.com' (http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=17797) -

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] WAV or FLAC

2011-12-23 Thread Tony T
mrbakeman;678946 Wrote: > Hi, > I'm new to the Squeezbox Touch and was wondering if using WAV files or > FLAC files was the prefered? I don't want to use MP3's so i want to rip > my cd's to WAV or FLAC, or does it even matter? > Thanks! FLAC. (and you can always extract the WAV from the .flac f

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] WAV or FLAC

2011-12-23 Thread aubuti
tbag;679066 Wrote: > Yeah go FLAC. The inability to tag WAV imo makes it worthwhile to go > FLAC :) Strictly speaking, it is possible to tag WAV, and LMS will read the tags. But very few tagging programs support tagging WAV files -- I think Tag&Rename is the only currently-supported program that

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] WAV or FLAC

2011-12-23 Thread garym
tbag;679066 Wrote: > Yeah go FLAC. The inability to tag WAV imo makes it worthwhile to go > FLAC :) and lossless is lossless is lossless ;-) p.s. I use compression of 5 on my flac files (the default). there have been situations where highly compressed (8) 24/96 files had some problems being de

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] WAV or FLAC

2011-12-23 Thread tbag
Yeah go FLAC. The inability to tag WAV imo makes it worthwhile to go FLAC :) -- tbag tbag's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=52580 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=92

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] WAV or FLAC

2011-12-23 Thread mrbakeman
c-eling;678948 Wrote: > I think there might be a battle between the 2 from the audiophiles,I use > dbpoweramp and use uncompressed flac for mine,easier tagging,Enjoy your > new toy your going to love it! Merry Christmas :) Thanks and Merry Christmas. -- mrbakeman -

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] WAV or FLAC

2011-12-23 Thread garym
mrbakeman;678946 Wrote: > Hi, > I'm new to the Squeezbox Touch and was wondering if using WAV files or > FLAC files was the prefered? I don't want to use MP3's so i want to rip > my cd's to WAV or FLAC, or does it even matter? > Thanks! WAV does not have standard tagging scheme, takes a lot more

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] WAV or FLAC

2011-12-22 Thread c-eling
I think there might be a battle between the 2 from the audiophiles,I use dbpoweramp and use uncompressed flac for mine,easier tagging,Enjoy your new toy your going to love it! Merry Christmas :) -- c-eling c-eling's Profil

[SlimDevices: Touch] WAV or FLAC

2011-12-22 Thread mrbakeman
Hi, I'm new to the Squeezbox Touch and was wondering if using WAV files or FLAC files was the prefered? I don't want to use MP3's so i want to rip my cd's to WAV or FLAC, or does it even matter? Thanks! -- mrbakeman mrbake