Almost there with the streaming, just a little more help needed

Posted by: chris2000 on 02 July 2012

Hi all

 

Thanks for all your input on NAS locations. I was very fortunate to be able to borrow a streamer from James at Tom Tom at no notice (thanks James!) to be able to put the theory to the test over the weekend. So far the wifi seems to be doing a fine job and I had no issues getting it to recognise the Synology and get Nstream up and running on the ipad.

 

My last hurdle then is getting the Synology audio station software and in turn the nstream to correctly read the tags on my wav rips which I'm doing through DbPoweramp. At the moment I can get the system to recognise the track info, the album and the album art however the track number is getting mixed in with the track title and the artist info is not being read. Does anyone have a default tagging structure that the Synology player can pick up or other tricks to make this work?

 

I also did a few rips with uncompressed FLAC and it picks up all of the information fine. I've read that uncompressed FLAC is basically a wav file with a FLAC wrap to allow the meta data pick up. If that's the case is there any reason to try and use wav rips over uncompressed FLAC?

 

Thanks

Posted on: 02 July 2012 by jobseeker

You'll find that some people say there should be no audible difference between FLAC and WAV, giving FLAC the advantage in the metadata and storage-space stakes. Others, including Naim, of course, disagree on the potential difference in sound quality, though the advantages of FLAC on the metadata / storage-space stakes remain. My ears are not golden enough to discern differences, at least on the limited exposure I've had to WAV.

Posted on: 02 July 2012 by 0rangutan

Chris, you are spot on - uncompressed FLACs should present little to no overhead to the streamer and so SQ will be equivalent to WAV and you will gain the benefit of usable meta-data.  Go for it.

 

 

Posted on: 02 July 2012 by Foxman50

Chris, i have a Synology DS212j and could not get a satisfactory result with wav files appearing correctly, or should i say how i wanted. Flac does exactly what i want, although i use the Media Server app not Audio Station. The wav/flac debate will go on and on, but i cant hear any difference. But maybe you need Naim's high end kit to realise the difference. One day my lottery ship will come in

Posted on: 02 July 2012 by rich46

what setting on dbpower is totally uncompressed flac ta

Posted on: 02 July 2012 by Aleg
Originally Posted by rich46:

what setting on dbpower is totally uncompressed flac ta

 

Flac level "uncompressed"

Posted on: 02 July 2012 by Foxman50

I think its the last option, it doesnt have a value. think is say lossless uncompressed, but you can tell by the files sizes, its the setting that creates the largest files

Posted on: 02 July 2012 by chris2000

Thanks all, having done a few test listens this afternoon I can't hear and difference between the wav and un-compressed flac so have made a start on the somewhat daunting task of ripping the cd collection.

Posted on: 02 July 2012 by Foxman50

I have to say Chris its one of the most tedious tasks i've ever undertaken, and still only half way through. Its ok until you hit a few disks that wont rip. Some ive had to use Exact audio copy to rip to wav then convert to flac. Good luck anyway

Posted on: 02 July 2012 by rich46

ive found if a cd wont rip ,make a copy of it and then it rips   cheers