2 Music Folders on NAS & ND5XS Query

Posted by: GraemeH on 22 February 2014

My NAS has 2 folders containing the same albums - 1) Entitled 'Music2' has all FLAC - which is what I've been playing to date and 2) Entitled 'Music' has all my original HDX rips which the ND5XS does not read. I'm presently converting these to 'wave' (.wav) in dbpoweramp.

So I'll have 2 shares with the same albums, one FLAC, one WAV, as a temporary setting until I see if there is any detectable difference between the two. I'll then send the one I least favour ( if that's the case) over to a second back-up and just run 1 share.

Will I see 2 sets of albums in nserve on the ipad In the interim?

Cheers,

Posted on: 22 February 2014 by Bart

If I understand . . . and if they are named identically, I think you'll not see two sets, but one album but with two sets of each track if you try to browse "All Music" in nStream. So one album with 2 track 1's, 2 track 2's, etc.

You may be able to browse "by device" to see them separately. But I'm far from sure the 2 shares will show up as 2 separate "devices."

Posted on: 22 February 2014 by GraemeH

Thanks Bart - seem to be wav.tmp copies there which won't play as yet but that may be because the process is ongoing.

What is VERY interesting to me however is that all the HDX rips, which I thought did not play through the ND5XS, are visible too. All 9000 odd tracks have been put in a folder 'Unknown' and when I open it it is an alphabetical list of thousands of HDX ripped .wav files!

These play perfectly through the ND5XS:NDAC and sound, to my ear, a little softer than the FLAC equivalent.

Pretty hopeless though as it is just an alphabetical list - if only there were a magic programme to unscramble and sort it into albums!

cheers

Posted on: 22 February 2014 by Scooot

Hi GraeameH,
Did you originally convert to flac.
If so am I correct in thinking you are happy with your tagging.therefore my question is,what if anything has happened to your tagging when converting to wav.
The reason I ask is its widespread belief wav sounds better than flac.i run twonky on my qnap and I am very happy with the tags.would I have to compromise with better sq(wav) against inferior tags.
Hope that makes sense.

Scott

Posted on: 22 February 2014 by GraemeH

Originally Posted by Scooot:

It's complicated Scott.....

FLAC tagging is fine - they were converted from WAV to FLAC by the HDX. The WAV's I'm referring to were a back-up folder on the NAS ripped from an HDX which I assumed would play and remain tagged when I moved to ND5XS:NDAC, but not so.

I'm running them through dbpoweramp wave converter just now to see if that helps.

Posted on: 22 February 2014 by Iver van de Zand

Hi Graham, assuming your UpnP software is set to scan both folders (otherwise you will see 1 folder anyway), you will not see any difference. NStream will show 1 albums, but with the double amount of records. If you want to see the flac record separated from the wav record, you have to edit the name structure.

cheers

iver

Posted on: 22 February 2014 by GraemeH

Thanks Iver - Once I decide to go FLAC or WAV I will close one of the folders.

Posted on: 23 February 2014 by GraemeH

Now have FLAC & WAV collection mirrored to critically compare for interest. I think the HDX ripped WAV's have been in 'Folder' in nstream all along!

Thanks to those who offered advice.

Posted on: 27 February 2014 by GraemeH

FLAC is sounding better than the WAV files I've concluded. The WAV's have a slight 'glare' and sibilance compared to the FLAC which sounds 'right'.