[X4U] Which format for Music?

Michael Winter winter at mac.com
Mon Aug 15 06:56:22 PDT 2005


On Aug 14, 2005, at 5:23 AM, B. Kuestner wrote:
> I read about Airport Express here which uses (sorry to break the  
> bad news) sub-par audio circuitry. Now if the Airport Express is  
> good enough for you, then most likely AAC or MP3 (VBR) both at 160  
> kbit/s and encoded at "highest quality" should be more than plenty.

And just to toss in what's really an irrelevant point, if you are  
using Airport Express to stream music, it gets transcoded to ALF  
prior to sending anyway. So using ALF may save a few CPU cycles when  
it comes time to stream the music.

-Mike


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