Phil Leigh;643160 Wrote: > Level 8 uses more CPU than 5 - on a PC this doesn't amount to a hill of > beans, but on SB hardware (TP, Touch etc) this difference CAN be enough > to cause intermittant problems with hi-rez file playback (assuming you > are streaming FLAC native, not as PCM). > > Best bet is to stick with level 5 (actually I use level 0 these days; > disk space is Sooooo cheap :-)With regular 'ol 16b 44.1khz redbook, I've > never known flac -8 to be a problem with my Transporter, SB3, SBBoom, SBRadio or SBTouch. Because I use flacs with embedded cuesheets, SBS 7.5x and earlier always streamed flac -0 to the players anyway because of transcoding. My SBReceiver seemed to have trouble with even that...but the SBR always struck me as the slow-learner in the class.
Having been using SBS 7.6 beta since shortly after the branch was created (i.e. for more than a year), the flac -8 has been streaming nativly to the players and (with the exception of the SBR) I've never noticed any problems. But I'm not really disagreeing with Phil here. Flac -0 or flac -5 will provide you with a bit of insurance. You'll spend much less time (and money too, if time == money) moving your audio library to a larger hard disc than you would re-flacing the collection to down-compress from 8 to 5. -- gharris999 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ gharris999's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=115 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=81590 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
