iPod Compression over the airwaves?

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smilinmonki666

macrumors regular

Original poster

• Feb 28, 2009

• #1

Hi guys,

Just a quick one, I've been looking for specifications for the Airport express with regards to compression. If I used it with my iTunes library with Lossless encoded files, would they be on-the-fly encoded to MP3 or AAC or left in their Lossless format?

 

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old-wiz

macrumors G3

• Feb 28, 2009

• #2

the wi-fi stuff doesn't touch the data; it just transports it. Wi-fi devices are only designed to transport data.

 

Galley

macrumors 65816

• Feb 28, 2009

• #3

When I listen to my lossless files, I am uploading at approx. 1MB/sec.

 

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realityking

macrumors member

• Mar 1, 2009

• #4

To my knowledge everything is recrompressed with Apple Lossless. (Which makes sense since the AirPort Express and the AppleTV can't handle all possible audio codecs and alac is a lot better then uncompressed audio)