PasTim wrote: > I would have thought the variables are more likely to be on your server > than the Touch, particular when (if I understand correctly), playing > from a USB drive on your server behaves differently from playing from a > local drive on your server. I also wonder whether ALAC is being > decompressed on the server rather than the Touch (by default FLACS will > be decompressed on the Touch - I'm note quite sure about ALAC).
Yes Touch can't handle hires alac so per default alac is not native on the Touch ( there are possibly some other issues to ) but flac is native . Depending on settings you may stream alac transcoded to flac or PCM . PCM also roughly increase the needed bandwidth say 40% in reality I don't think Touch really care about flac vs PCM greater network activity may offset the "benefit" of not decoding flac on the Touch . But if it differs between USB drive and c drive you have localised the issue to the server so forget about the Touch it's not directly involved . Maybe a disc defrag if it's a windows system ,maybe something is starting to go wrong with the USB drive itself use your backup copies on another USB drive -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: Touch + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad1 with iPengHD & SqueezePad (spares Touch, SB3, reciever ,controller ) server HP proliant micro server N36L with ClearOS Linux http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94512 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
