...and deliberately, but it IS a pain.
Having gone to an NS01, and changed my coax to a Mark Grant jobby I can now hear a difference between flac and wav, and unfortunately wav is better.
This weekend I decided to bite the bullet, which meant loosing all the metadata embedded in my flac files, that I had carefully fostered and corrected. Not quiet true, I have two backups.
Decompressing the files was straightforward, a simple command in Linux ....that ran for a LOOONG time. Deleted the flac files, another command that was much faster.
End result? Lots a wav files, and a HDD that is now 64% full, rather than 42%.
The more painful process has been renaming my Classical files directories, to get the Artist and Album entries into something useable! Taken a few hours.
Posted on: 16 October 2011 by Mr Underhill
You know, I decided NOT to post this until I had tried a couple of other things and so foolishly clicked - 'Save Draft', and it posted it anyway - thought I'd point this out in case anyone else sees the button and thinks it may be of some use!
M
Posted on: 16 October 2011 by garyi
Well on mac at least is media rage, which quite literaly does everything, no doubt it could have extracted the meta data and got it into wav.
I hope you did your research.
Posted on: 17 October 2011 by Mr Underhill
Gary,
Please explain more.
I kept a copy of the flacs 'just in case'.
I thought that Naim maintained their own database of meta-data, that was populated during ripping.
Can I embed the metadata into the wav files, such that the Naim server can access it?
--and I'll have a look at Media Rage in the meanwhile.
Thx,
M
Posted on: 17 October 2011 by murkku
Also, there are a number of UPnP servers (Asset, PMS..) that are able to transcode your FLAC/ALAC into WAV on the fly. Thus preserving the metadata & losslessly compressed filesize on the server/storage side.
Posted on: 17 October 2011 by garyi
Mr Underhill, baring in mind I have not tried this but yes, I don't see why not. I don't understand why the programme you used to transcode the data did not do this for you. Patrick would probably be better to advise on that one.
Posted on: 17 October 2011 by Mr Underhill
Gary,
I simply used flac to uncompress my files back to wav.
The embedded data will have been lost (but I have the backups!).
I believe that metadata can be stored in the wav header - but I didn't think that Naim used this?
Currently I have got hundreds of genre 'unassigned' albums, which is a pain.
Just loaded up the new DTC to see if there was now a way to independently assign a genre - no change.
Hopefully Patrick will pop in.
Cheers,
M
