Question What Format ?

[Jasonovich]

The handle, not you personally..... 🙂

Ha ha ha, it never crossed my mind. Mind you, you may be right! 🤣

 

[Dave_]

Streaming is not really a format, its just a delivery process, which means any format that is or has been converted to digital is the original format not the stream.

Bill

It's also a term misunderstood and/or misused by audiophiles.

Most audiophiles equate streaming as just accessing a commercial service over the internet.

When the literal definition of streaming is the transmission of data over a (computer) network...

That could be from a commercially operated server over the internet or equally your own personal rips/downloads stored locally and accessed over your LAN...

 

[Gray]

It's also a term misunderstood and/or misused by audiophiles.

Most audiophiles equate streaming as just accessing a commercial service over the internet.

When the literal definition of streaming is the transmission of data over a (computer) network...

That could be from a commercially operated server over the internet or equally your own personal rips/downloads stored locally and accessed over your LAN...

That's mostly all streaming is to me - playing my own music, very locally, from a partition of the SD card in one RPi (for a headphone rig)- and an SSD plugged into another RPi (for a system).