Candlemass wrote: > The the questions are: > 1. Why does Squeezelite announce DSD playback capability to the server > (by default)? The Output devices are not able to play DSD. > 2. Why would I want my LMS to convert the file format before streaming? > Why is it enabled by default and where are the settings?
1. Not sure for codecs, but about sample rates, squeezelite could detect the DAC capabilities and use them, but -depending on specific dac, OS and connection - sometime squeezelite starts before the dac is availlable, in that caseit could not inquiry the real capabilities. That's why we have -r, -c and -e options in squezelite. (-m is here for the same reason, but here is about the NIC). Replicate in squeezelite (or in the player settings, using i.e C-3PO plugin) the 'real' capabilities of the connected dac is a 'safe' practice. 2. Here are at least two separate questions, for both It's amatter of opinions and sound quality concerns are involved, I suppose that if you are using daphile you care as i do, but this is not the right place to talk about, the risk is to start a flame. Please read about C-3PO plugin (and Squeezelite-R2), that I've made in order to use standard LMS to do that. 2.a Long made short, becouse if a transcode (or a resampling) is needed, much better perform it on the powerfull, noisy but remote from the audio system, server than on the tiny, quiet but low power client, at least when using wired connections. As for why one could wish to transcode or upsample, is becouse some people believe this could affect sound quality, I think it does, but there is a lot to say about that. 2.b That's a Daphile matter, if I well recon, is in Settings, Audio, Audio device or something like that, but better ask to daphile users. ____________________________________________________________ SB+, Klimo Merlino + Kent Gold, Monitor Audio Studio 20 Gold SE+, Klimo reference and DIS Interconnect. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ marcoc1712's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34842 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97046 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
