I dont't believe the Squeezebox hardware can natively decode AIFF like it can with FLAC or MP3, so it likely needs to get dynamically transcoded as FLAC to send to the Squeezebox.
That's my speculation.
That's my speculation.
Questions about tweaking Squeezebox software
Hello,
I was playing around with my Squeezebox and noticed something. I was in the advanced settings, under "file types" and decided to disable everything that I don't use. Since all of my files are in AIFF format, I disabled everything else.
While in this section, there is a column which lists various file formats and in a corresponding column there is a selection of stream formats associated with the file format.
For the Aiff file format, they list Aiff, Flac and MP3 stream formats. I left the Aiff stream format as native. I then disabled the Flac stream format (the other option being ffmpeg) and the mp3 stream format. When I do this and play an Aiff file, all I get is static. When I re-enable the Flac stream option and set it to ffmpeg, the music plays fine.
My question is, why is this? Why would disabling the handling of flac streams having anything to do with playing files in Aiff format? Am I getting a flac stream from my Aiff files?
Thanks.
I was playing around with my Squeezebox and noticed something. I was in the advanced settings, under "file types" and decided to disable everything that I don't use. Since all of my files are in AIFF format, I disabled everything else.
While in this section, there is a column which lists various file formats and in a corresponding column there is a selection of stream formats associated with the file format.
For the Aiff file format, they list Aiff, Flac and MP3 stream formats. I left the Aiff stream format as native. I then disabled the Flac stream format (the other option being ffmpeg) and the mp3 stream format. When I do this and play an Aiff file, all I get is static. When I re-enable the Flac stream option and set it to ffmpeg, the music plays fine.
My question is, why is this? Why would disabling the handling of flac streams having anything to do with playing files in Aiff format? Am I getting a flac stream from my Aiff files?
Thanks.