NDX and WMA Lossless

Posted by: zzdpmjpr2 on 19 August 2012

The specs for the NDX say that it can handle WMA 9 up to 320Kbps. Does that really mean that it is unable to handle WMA Lossless? Or am I missing something which is not unusual.

John

Posted on: 21 August 2012 by The Man With Nonaim

I was interested in ripping my cds to WMA 9.2 lossless. The problem is in finding a NAS which can hold WMA lossless - I couldn't find one. The best solution was to use dBpoweramp to rip to WAV. This works very nicely on my NAS and NDX and WAV is a lossless format.

Regards

TMWN

Posted on: 21 August 2012 by Guido Fawkes

> This works very nicely on my NAS and NDX and WAV is a lossless format.

Yes as are ALAC, FLAC and AIFF ... they are all lossless format that you can use across a variety of systems ... do we need another proprietary format like WMA

I wish the world would standardise on FLAC. All the players would play it, the tags would work, the artwork always appear and the world would be a happy place.

Posted on: 21 August 2012 by Simon-in-Suffolk

KGuy, I appreciate the sentiment, but with FLAC I find they sometimes trip up on playback and I need to re encode them. Happens on Windows and Naim, admittedly less than it used to, but even so, I don't believe FLAC is our Eldorado. I would recommend to anyone storage in WAV or AIFF unless space was at a premium and then FLAC or ALAC.

But yes to your point, do we need yet another lossless format. No!

Simon

Posted on: 24 August 2012 by zzdpmjpr2

Thanks for your comments.

FWIW I wish the world was WMA then I wouldn't have 500+ albums to transcode.(That's the result of some good advice a few years ago from an audio 'expert' by the way.I did switch to flac some time ago so all is not lost

Anyway I am stil surprised that the NDX can't handle it. It's not as if it's a backyard format and I bet there have been a significant proportion of rips/downloads in WMA ( assertion based on complete absence of data). I can't be the only one - can I?

John