Marmite, WAV, bdpoweramp and US

Posted by: Sloop John B on 16 September 2011

On a previous thread Tog mentioned that the US had a Marmite approach to it's file management

Simon mentioned that he got richly indexed data using dbpoweramp.

Firstly if it can be pointed out what I may be doing wrong as on my PC I see this

whereas the n-stream being fed by twonky through my new qnap nas sees this.

Any ideas how I get unknown, unknown to show Bright Eyes - The Peoples key?

Secondly I'd like to know what is the US's take on file management and how does one improve on it with dbpoweramp?

thanks

Posted on: 17 September 2011 by intothevoid

It's official - SWMBO prefers the uncompressed FLACs.

Posted on: 17 September 2011 by Frizzlefry

Is that re-rips, or just unzippped FLAC ?

If the former, are you going to re-rip everything, or just use from now on?

Posted on: 17 September 2011 by intothevoid

Just uncompression at the moment. Really surprised by the difference it makes.We both agree that the uncompressed version is so much better.

Have decided to uncompress the entire library (10,805 tracks )and then re-rip favourite albums. All new purchases will be ripped uncompressed from now on as a matter of course.

Posted on: 17 September 2011 by Sloop John B

RESULT

SJB

Posted on: 18 September 2011 by Simon-in-Suffolk

Good it's working, however I wouldn't batch convert your files, you really want to leave them alone. You should tell your uPNP server to transcode to WAV when streaming. The naim algorithms do seem optimised for WAV based on my subjective listening comparisons. However a compressed FLAC transcoded to WAV by the uPNP server and sent to the NDX sounds the same as WAV (when using Asset) IME. All my hidef is done this way and my Redbook rips are mostly WAV with a few FLAC. But my NDX only ever sees WAV files from the upnp server.
Simon