Nath wrote:

MP3's are pretty good sounding. Whilst you're experimenting I suggest
encoding to OGG. At the same bitrate of your MP3's they'll sound
better.

They do, but my primary method of playing MP3s away from the PC is a
Turtle Beach Audiotron. Which plays MP3, WMA and WAV. Not OGG, sadly.

In order to play OGGs I'd have to start messing about on the server with
PortalFS to decode on-the-fly to WAV and stream it over the network. And
if I'm going to start messing about like that then I'll be using FLAC. ;-)

With a 300GB disk about to go into the media server, storage isn't an issue.

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