OT: Lossless encoding...

["Mark Harrison" <Mark.Harrison@xxxxxxx>]

>From the JReceiver_user group. 

Store everything in flac... use a Via as the playback device on the main
system, and Rios transcoding elsewhere? It may be time for some more
comparative listening tests :-)

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This is experimental, but may be of interest.

I'm listening to a flac-encoded track on my Rio Receiver right now.

For those unfamilar with flac, it's a lossless audio codec.  The 
quality isn't diminished from that ripped from the CD.

It can be transcoded to MP3 (losing something in the transistion no 
doubt) in order to play on the Rio using the following transcoder 
command:

/bin/sh -c '/usr/local/bin/flac -d -s -  /usr/local/bin/lame -ms --
silent -' 

I call this experimental because the standard Rio client will not 
automatically switch to the next song at the end of a song.  I 
haven't tried the other Rio clients yet, but it should be possible to 
modify them if necessary to switch tracks when the data for a song 
ends.

A minor fix to jrec was needed to support this.  It's in CVS now.

--Reed

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