Skipping [Disc 1]

[DavidHB]

(18-07-2016 20:14)krutsch Wrote:  I've just decided that AIFF is too hard to support and that FLAC will just work everywhere.

When I started out in the streaming game, that was pretty much my decision, though it wasn't particularly well informed at the time. Everything I have read subsequently suggests that I managed to jump the right way on that one. I also have an instinctive preference for the more 'open' formats. Given that, sadly, commercial organisations cannot be relied on to use their intellectual property in an ethical manner, open source can be a useful counter to some of the excesses.

(18-07-2016 20:14)krutsch Wrote:  I've convinced myself that there will be no audible difference on my renderer - during playback of even high-res FLAC files, there is negligible CPU utilization and I think it might be preferable to save 1/2 of the data being dragged over the wireless network, as opposed to shaving a percentage or two of CPU utilization.

Wireless capacity is certainly an issue; I only stream over Ethernet. In my circumstances, transcoding from FLAC to, say, WAV24 does seem to give some sound quality benefit (perhaps because it helps to lower the noise floor in the player).

David