woodnut;557328 Wrote: > Thanks. > > > Does the file format FAT32 or NTFS make a difference to the Touch in > terms of ease of access? > > I am tempted to rip the Flac files at 0 if this helps the Touch decode > the Flacs more easily. I have read conflicting reports on this all over > the web some say the decoding is nearly the same for all levels, some > say 0-2 is better for ease of decoding. I read a report where a user > claimed that anything above 0 intruduced jitter caused by the CPU > having to work harder. > > I guess the NAS is something for the future if I run into problems. I > really want to avoid having the computer on if it is possible.
1. 99% of what you read about jitter on the internet is wrong, wrong, wrong. 2. compressing at zero is really a waste of space. I keep up with these discussions, and I've only seen serious discussion about issues with more than "5" on hi-rez files. If you use 5, you should be good to go. I use 5 for my flac files (with embedded album art). Remember FLAC is lossless. If you ripped at 5 and decided later that you wanted "0", you simply point and click at a batch of your files (50,000 even), and go away for 48 hours. When you return you'll have new FLAC files with a different compression. This is the beauty of having lossless to begin with. I used dbpa to convert all my FLAC -8 files to FLAC -5, with two or three mouse clicks. 3. Search this forum for comments on NAS's. Remember a NAS is a computer, just a small one. If you want a small computer to run your SB, consider the vortexbox appliance, an atom nettop, or a sheevaplug. And of course the beauty of SB stuff, is that your computer/NAS/harddrive can be in a completely different location than the SB. -- garym ------------------------------------------------------------------------ garym's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17325 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79896 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
