Jason Holtzapple
2004-01-03, 14:10
--- Gareth David Brandwood <gareth.br (AT) ndwood (DOT) com> wrote:
> How does this work exactly? I'm wondering specifically about the sound
> quality and bandwidth issues - is 10/11Mb per second sufficient for
> uncompressed WAVs when streaming wirelessly? Also, what track and album
> information is available from a WAV file? I love being able to view track,
> album, year, artist (etc) information and wouldn't want to lose this.
>
> I know AudioGrabber inserts such information into WAVs but what, if anything,
> does the Squeeze Box display? Does it just read the file name and split it
> up?
Although it supports WAVs, I think you'd be better off using
a lossless compressor like FLAC (http://flac.sf.net). FLACs
are roughly half the size of WAV files without any loss of
quality. Support for FLACs in the server is good, with all
the customary metadata available.
I am able to run a FLAC->WAV stream wirelessly with 801.22b
with no problems. I only have 1 Squeezebox so I can't say
how many of these streams would swamp the network.
--Jason
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> How does this work exactly? I'm wondering specifically about the sound
> quality and bandwidth issues - is 10/11Mb per second sufficient for
> uncompressed WAVs when streaming wirelessly? Also, what track and album
> information is available from a WAV file? I love being able to view track,
> album, year, artist (etc) information and wouldn't want to lose this.
>
> I know AudioGrabber inserts such information into WAVs but what, if anything,
> does the Squeeze Box display? Does it just read the file name and split it
> up?
Although it supports WAVs, I think you'd be better off using
a lossless compressor like FLAC (http://flac.sf.net). FLACs
are roughly half the size of WAV files without any loss of
quality. Support for FLACs in the server is good, with all
the customary metadata available.
I am able to run a FLAC->WAV stream wirelessly with 801.22b
with no problems. I only have 1 Squeezebox so I can't say
how many of these streams would swamp the network.
--Jason
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