It looks like more and more artists are releasing legal, free copies of their music with flac, sometimes at greater than CD quality. With the popularity of overly compressed MP3s and the relative unpopularity of DVD-A and SACD, this may be the best hope for decent quality sound.
What is the best way to get 24 bit, 96 KHZ flac files to play from an Xbox 360 or PS3? I'd prefer to do a minimum of transcoding, but am willing to do so if necessary.
1. Can the Xbox 360 or PS3 output 24/96 sound without down-sampling over an RCA pair? How about over HDMI?
2. Does either Xbox 360 or PS3 natively support flac? From my research, it doesn't look like it, but I just wanted to confirm this.
3. If I convert the flac file to an uncompressed wave or WMA lossless, will the Xbox 360 output 24/96 without truncating or down-sampling?
4. Do I need windows XP media center edition for this, or can I just use a uPNP router?
Sorry for all the questions, but I've got a few better than CD albums and I don't want to lose audio quality by just burning them to CD. If this question would be more appropriate for a different part of AVS Forum, please let me know.
What is the best way to get 24 bit, 96 KHZ flac files to play from an Xbox 360 or PS3? I'd prefer to do a minimum of transcoding, but am willing to do so if necessary.
1. Can the Xbox 360 or PS3 output 24/96 sound without down-sampling over an RCA pair? How about over HDMI?
2. Does either Xbox 360 or PS3 natively support flac? From my research, it doesn't look like it, but I just wanted to confirm this.
3. If I convert the flac file to an uncompressed wave or WMA lossless, will the Xbox 360 output 24/96 without truncating or down-sampling?
4. Do I need windows XP media center edition for this, or can I just use a uPNP router?
Sorry for all the questions, but I've got a few better than CD albums and I don't want to lose audio quality by just burning them to CD. If this question would be more appropriate for a different part of AVS Forum, please let me know.