Re: FLAC & iPhone
Reply #4 – 2018-11-06 22:53:33
By "battery life" do you mean play time per charge or the lifetime of the battery? Not too fussed by the former, within reason. Of course the former affects the latter (more charges per month). Id like to be clear, you are suggesting that Foobar would convert FLAC to AAC for broadcast? I guess that's inevitable. I mean the play time per charge. It's unlikely that Foobar will do the conversion for broadcast, it's usually a job for a driver or some other OS component.But you are ALSO saying that it would also re-convert AAC (to AAC)? Thats weird (to me anyway). YesMixing ... yeah that's something Id love to turn off, there is nothing more annoying that having the music interrupted, especially when Im using it as background music and then some advert or spam on a web page Im browsing hijacks the sound away from my music. Need to specifically search for software which can do that. No regular player can do this.On the headphone front the dilemma I have is that I like Sennheiser sound but they dont support AAC (HD1 and PCX 550), which I find rather odd. Of the sets that do, none is perfect, either too expensive, dont fit too well, or the sound is way too bright, or too boomy. The trick is probably not to overthink it. The trick is to use wired headphones and 3.5mm jack. This is cheaper and has none of the problems that Bluetooth has.The only case for not doing that is if the conversion on desktop could be less lossy somehow than whats done on the phone, but I assume the algorithms are the same? very hard to say, especially in closed source systems from Apple. you can probably sniff the protocol somehow to see which codec is being used, but even if the codec is the same, encoding method may be different. and it's not even a well defined problem to decide which is "less lossy". but if one can detect it by ear, then it must be bad.but they dont support AAC (HD1 and PCX 550), which I find rather odd I'm pretty sure that AAC requires licensing fees as it's a format burdened by lots of patents, so this could be the reason.