Playing WAV files

Posted by: Christopher Oakes on 05 June 2016

Hi, 

Apologies in advance if this has been covered previously, but I've searched the forum and cannot find a thread.

I have a Naimuniti (MK1) I previously had a Buffalo NAS which had all my music in WAV format on it and streamed perfectly.  However after the NAS failed I replaced it with a DLink 320 and have uploaded all my music to it.  My uniti recognises this and will play the few MP3 files and the odd FLAC file fine, however although it recognises the folders it does not display any of my WAV files.  This is very frustrating and I do not want the hassle of converting all these files.  Has anyone else encountered this problem and is it solveable!?

 

Many thanks in advance for any ideas.

Posted on: 06 June 2016 by Christopher Oakes

I've taken earlier advice and am converting them to FLAC lossless, hopefully that won't adversely affect the quality......

Posted on: 06 June 2016 by Innocent Bystander

Ther's no loss in quality converting to FLAC, although some people claim tharpt wav sounds better on some players - when  apparently they set the server to transcode to wave while serving, effectively reconverting live on-the-fly, which I suppose is the best of both worlds (unless the transcoding processing causes side effects if the system isn't powerful enough.

Posted on: 06 June 2016 by ChrisSU
Christopher Oakes posted:

I've taken earlier advice and am converting them to FLAC lossless, hopefully that won't adversely affect the quality......

I would strongly suggest that you only convert one album and check both the metadata and sound quality are OK before you convert a whole collection. 

Posted on: 06 June 2016 by Bert Schurink
Innocent Bystander posted:

Ther's no loss in quality converting to FLAC, although some people claim tharpt wav sounds better on some players - when  apparently they set the server to transcode to wave while serving, effectively reconverting live on-the-fly, which I suppose is the best of both worlds (unless the transcoding processing causes side effects if the system isn't powerful enough.

I can confirm, transcoding on the fly is the best of both worlds....

Posted on: 06 June 2016 by hungryhalibut

Exactly so - smaller files, easy to handle metadata, and sound quality identical to WAV. A decent upnp server such as Minim or Asset will transcode happily, including gapless albums. 

Posted on: 07 June 2016 by Mr Paws

FWIW, Almost all my 1100 albums are encoded in FLAC Logitech Server butt, when I transcode from my dBPoweramp/Assett Server on my PC it trancodes to WAV and the music does sound marginally better to my ears. However, I don't fire my PC up all that much so do listen to the FLAC files most of the time. 

Oh and my ReadyNAS/Logitech has never been able to recognise WAV's anyway.