OK, I can't resist. I know this will probably convince nobody, but while doing the high-sample-rate audio stuff n iPeng I got quite a bit of experience with FLAC vs. PCM handling and also quite a bit of testing mileage. And of course an iPhone is not a Touch and it's of course always on WiFi.
But my experience is that WAV/PCM is really the worst format you can get for streaming. It causes more load, more errors, more connection problems and more systems issues. You have more data to stream, which at least on iPhone has dramatically more impact on the processing power requirements all along the line than the little effort needed for FLAC decoding, it can't error correct as well because you don't have a full header or checksum so you are more likely to run into a wrong sample rate, lost frame or something and since it IS a significant amount of data (96/24 audio streamed uncompressed requires similar bandwidth as HD video!) you will more often have underruns and cutouts. Every second day I was close to saying "let's keep this crap out of the App, it causes nothing but trouble". But hey, I'm just an engineer. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96420 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
