Streaming flac showed as wav on uniti

Posted by: SamSam on 06 February 2012

Hi

I am new in using flac format. As a surprise some of these flac files stored in a nas are showed as wav on the uniti and n- stream. What could be the reason ?

Posted on: 06 February 2012 by David

Sam,

It could be that your media server is transcoding to WAV. I know this is an option for Asset for example.

David

Posted on: 07 February 2012 by 0rangutan

As David says, some NAS will do this.

Is it a Synology model by any chance?

Posted on: 07 February 2012 by SamSam

Hi David Thanks for the trick. In fact I'm using asset Upnp (trial version) and for some reason it happened that I did a wrong setup manipulation. now everything is in order. By the way is there a proper asset setup to enhance the sound if any? Cheers. Sam

Posted on: 08 February 2012 by Nagoya

I don't think there is much you can do to the set up on Asset for SQ apart from keeping the transcode to WAV on. Many say, including Naim, that this is the preferred file format, though you'll find plenty of others who say there's no difference between lossless files. Thanks!

Posted on: 08 February 2012 by Tog

Yep - no difference IMHO :-)