pippin wrote: > Depends on what your server runs on and how software support for WMA is > on that one.
My music is on my laptop running Windows Vista SP2 with LMS (Logitech Media Server). Using LMS to stream to my SB Touch all my music files play fine. > iPeng, SqueezePad and SqueezePlayer all support FLAC natively, at least > iPeng and SqueezePad do NOT support WMA. WMA on iOS is not feasible > unless you either want to violate licenses and risk to be banned from > the store or pay north of 20k$ per year to Microsoft. Drat! Of course it couldn't be so simple.....sigh Most of my music collection on my laptop is in wma lossy. Years ago when I got my first mp3 player, I went through my entire CD collection (over 800 CDs) and used WMP to load the music on my laptop so I could sync it with my mp3 player. Of course WMP defaulted to wma lossy (I didn't know any different back then). So it looks like my options are to start over and rip my CD collection again (not my preference) or find a way to convert my wma files to something more universally accepted such as mp3 (I have no idea how to do that. Would it be relatively simple??). > I'm not 100% sure about SqueezePlayer on Android, Google doesn't demand > exclusivity for their store so theoretically you could allow binary > re-distribution which would open the door for GPL'ed libraries. Android is a very minor consideration for me at this point. The second part of that sentance went completely over my head. :0 > So WMA would have to be transcoded on the server side which works on > Windows machines and I believe also on Linux (don't remember whether you > need a plugin) but I'm not sure about OSX. WMA lossless I'm really > unsure... > If your WMA files are DRM'ed they won't run on any Squeezebox related > systerm, including the Squeezeboxes themselves. Since my laptop is running Windows, there's something I can add so that it will transcode (convert?) the wma files before streaming to the iPad?? Sorry if these are newby questions, I'm not very computer savvy. None of my music files are DRM'ed. > My suggestion would simply be: don't use WMA, it's a whole license mess, > almost as bad as mp3 but mp3 is at least supported on all major > platforms. > For lossless, I'd recommend FLAC, Apple lossless also works natively in > iPeng (not sure about SqueezePlayer) although you'd have to tell your > server first since otherwise it'd transcode them to FLAC by default > since almost no Squeezebox understands it. Actually, about a year ago I did stop using wma when ripping CDs because of it's less than universal support. I've been using mp3 since then due to it's broader support. > iPeng can also output the stuff bit-perfectly through a USB DAC/dock, > with the iPad even up to 96kHz/24Bit > http://penguinlovesmusic.de/2012/08/14/ipeng-goes-audiophile/ Sorry, over my head again.. :0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Saturn94's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=56831 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97366 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
