Gapless Flac playback on Synology with MiniMServer

I only use L16 for the Roberts. For the Naim, FLAC to WAV preserves the native sample rate. If you set the sample rate higher than the original, it cannot improve the quality - eg setting it to transcode MP3 to 24 bit 192k will not make the original into a 24/192 file. So just leaving it to convert at native definition seems the most sensible thing to do - to me anyway. 

Hi HH, presumably the transcoding on the fly accounts for the reduced bitrates I am seeing - 141 kb/s down from 400+ kb/s ?

KR, J

Transcoding doesn't reduce the bitrate if you set it to the equivalent of flac:wav. A 96k 24 bit FLAC will be transcoded to 96k 24 bit wav, etc. 

HH, Thx, KR, J

Hungryhalibut posted:

Here is what you enter to transcode (I also use L16 for my Roberts radio).

 

You'll also see two extra index tags. AudioData automatically sorts by bit rate and sample rate, so you can find your hires files. DateAdded lets you add a tag in dbpoweramp to help you find latest additions. Eg if you add the tag DATEADDED and then say 2016-04 you can find all the albums added in April 2016. This has stopped me losing new albums!

 

 

I see there is # prepending AudioData and - prepending DateAdded

Is this significant, if so what is the purpose?

Dunno, but it's what you need to enter to make it work. 

Many thanks for the tips!

Hungryhalibut posted:

And this is what you need to do to ignore 'the' in the Naim app. This means that The Smiths show under S rather than T. It's under tagoptions.

Many thanks for that tip, much appreciated!

I'm pleased you find it useful. 

HH,

Apologies if this has been covered multiple times in the past.

I have just had to reinstall & re-configure MinimServer & MinimStreamer following a NAS (Synology DS212) failure. Swapped my old disks into the new Synology NAS (DS216+), and they worked fine after a little bit of tweaking. however, because the new NAS has a different processer, I had to uninstall & re-install Java and MinimServer.

I had forgotten how to do this, so used the MinimServer user guides, and I noticed (I hadn't previously noticed) that they advise transcoding from FLAC to WAV24 (not WAV) for the Linn DS, or for that matter, the highest bit depth level your streamer is capable of supporting.

Have you compared the two (i.e transcoding to WAV24 rather than WAV)?    

Great question.  Thanks to the help on this form I'm going to add the minimstreamer to my minimserver to play my flac files in wav format but.....

What about HD 24 bit flac files?  Should I set up the minimstreamer to wav24 instead of wav? Or does this just not matter either way?

From the user minimstreamer user guild...

The original sample rate is preserved unchanged by default. For example, using the wav setting to transcode a FLAC file with a bit depth and sample rate combination of 16/44100 will produce a WAV audio format of 16/44100. Using the wav24 setting to transcode this file will produce a WAV audio format of 24/44100.

If you set the stream.transcode property to flac:wav it will retain the original bit depth whether that be 16 bit or 24 bit. Using flac:wav24 will pad the 16 bit files but not affect your 24 bit flac files other than transcoding them to wav.

Got it, thank you so much!