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Author Topic: Why is FLAC faster to stream with library server  (Read 1740 times)

soren

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Why is FLAC faster to stream with library server
« on: August 14, 2005, 02:04:33 pm »


When using library server there is always a severe lag when jumping within a APE song on the clients.
I found that FLAC is much faster.

Why is that?

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JimH

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Re: Why is FLAC faster to stream with library server
« Reply #1 on: August 14, 2005, 03:33:24 pm »

Is FLAC getting converted to MP3?
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Re: Why is FLAC faster to stream with library server
« Reply #2 on: August 15, 2005, 08:42:03 am »


Not sure .. how do I tell?
Currently don't have many FLAC files, so did not give it much thought.

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Re: Why is FLAC faster to stream with library server
« Reply #3 on: January 08, 2006, 06:50:08 pm »

When I try to play FLAC files from a MC Library Server on a client without conversion to MP3 then I get following error:

“Media Center encountered errors while trying to play the last several files. Please make sure that the path in your media library points to the right location.”

If I let client convert to MP3 before playing then this works ok. I can also play FLAC files on the server and client without problems.

What can be wrong?

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Re: Why is FLAC faster to stream with library server
« Reply #4 on: January 09, 2006, 03:10:27 pm »

Make sure your APE files use Fast, Normal, or High compression.  Higher compression levels get quite a bit slower without as much gain in space savings.
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