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 file size difference between 5 and 8 is trivial.
Well, lossless always equals extra work somewhere. I store all my music in AIFF format, which works well with iTunes and JRMC and pretty much every other player. But, doing so presents a problem with the Touch. I can't stream hi-res AIFF to the Touch natively, unless I let the server transcode it to FLAC. Redbook files, yes. Hires? Nope, the Touch will put out something that resembles the DAC loosing lock. (Okay, I use an external DAC too. ) :) This is anything but brilliant. Uncompressed AIFF --> Compressed FLAC ---> Network ---> Uncompress FLAC to PCM on Touch ---> play music. If anything, I would prefer the server to uncompress everything and stream it as PCM. Might put a small load on the network, but better that than the Touch. :) -Paul -- paul.raulerson ------------------------------------------------------------------------ paul.raulerson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=50346 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=92520 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
