On Apr 15, 2008, at 5:28 PM, paga wrote: > > I've just purchase a Squeezebox, which I love. I've now started to > re-evaluate how and what format to story my digital music in. Quality, > support and being future proof as the criteria, desk space becoming > less of an issue. Anyway after some investigation I choose FLAC. > > In the mean time I'd started to upload my current music to mp3tunes, > having read this thread its appears mp3tunes doesn't support FLAC. > > After looking at mp3tunes website it appears they support Ogg. If I > understand correctly it's possible to wrap the FLAC file in an Ogg > container, although the output file has the extension .ogg the codec > used is the same, so you can decode using the native FLAC decoder. > I've > not tried yet but does anybody know if this will work on mp3tunes > using > the Squeezebox? > > I understand streaming these files maybe an issue so an alternation > would be if locker sync program would convert the file on upload to > Vorbis or some other format. At least this would make it possible to > maintain my collection on mp3tunes as I dont see managing this > process > manually as an option. > > An advice help would be appreciated
Yeah they don't support FLAC due to storage and bandwidth issues. Your best bet is to transcode your FLAC to high-bitrate Ogg or MP3 and upload that to MP3tunes. You could use a program like flac2mp3 (search the forum) to do this automatically. _______________________________________________ squeezenetwork mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/squeezenetwork
