Convert waw files to flac

Klout10 posted:

You can toggle on the UnitiServe between WAC and FLAC, if you change the ripping format back to WAV, all the FLAC files will be converted back 

Can someone confirm if this is true?

If i change the ripping format to flac - will the backup on the nas also change to flac?  Then i can put the flac files onto an Sd card and play the files in my car. 

Afterwards i can switch the US back to Wav and all the flac files will be reconverted back to Wav??? Correct?

CSI_Basel posted:

Klout10 posted:

You can toggle on the UnitiServe between WAC and FLAC, if you change the ripping format back to WAV, all the FLAC files will be converted back 

Can someone confirm if this is true?

If i change the ripping format to flac - will the backup on the nas also change to flac?  Then i can put the flac files onto an Sd card and play the files in my car. 

Afterwards i can switch the US back to Wav and all the flac files will be reconverted back to Wav??? Correct?

That's the idea.

"That doesn't sound right to me. When I converted mine, I had only loaded about 300 CDs, but it took under an hour to convert them all. "

It's in line with the advice I had from Phil Harris -'Converting 3,000 albums between WAV and FLAC is likely to be several weeks of conversion…'

Odd that your experience is so different. Conversion was a bit slower at the start but is nor about 55 seconds per file/track.

Is it an SSD model?

It is.

GerryMcg posted:

It is.

Ok - that explains it - it has to work with a NAS. That's why the process takes so long.

Thanks to those of you that have pointed out this criminal act. I have sold my Unitiserve, it was meant as a friendly move to leave the music on it. I now see that it was not a smart decision and have removed all the files. 

Thanks to those of you that have increased my knowledge on Unitiserves functions 

S 

Adam Zielinski posted:

GerryMcg posted:

It is.

Ok - that explains it - it has to work with a NAS. That's why the process takes so long.

How do these things talk to each other, carrier pigeon? Based on my experience, the conversion (on the HDD version) should take under 10 hours, so 16 days, i.e. 384 hours, seems crazy. Still, at least you have a plan. 

ChrisSU posted:

Adam Zielinski posted:

GerryMcg posted:

It is.

Ok - that explains it - it has to work with a NAS. That's why the process takes so long.

How do these things talk to each other, carrier pigeon? Based on my experience, the conversion (on the HDD version) should take under 10 hours, so 16 days, i.e. 384 hours, seems crazy. Still, at least you have a plan. 

Morese code probably via smoke signals....

Stover posted:

Another thing that come to my mind. If I do convert now, from wav to flac, there will be flac files only ont he Serve. Problem is, I have sold it as a unit with 1500 albums ripped in wav. This should not be easy.

I have a third option. I now have the wav version for å future Core, for current use, I just have to start ripping again, in flac, from such as XLD or dbpoweramp.

S

Ive tried wav vs flac and wav sounded noticeably better, and recently I've tried dbpoweramp vs xld, both on a macbook pro. Xld sounded noticeably better but doesn't link metadata. It lists everything correctly while ripping but only stores the track and album names, not the artist or cover art though.

I really like the metadata being included as it makes the interface really pleasing, but at the moment I've opted to listen to the xld rips as they are the best sounding.

Ripping a CD to the internal HDD usually takes a bit less than 5 minutes, but not that much less. I now rip, and store in FLAC, which doesn't seem to be any slower than ripping to WAV.

The reason it is no slower is because the Serve always rips to wav. If you have set it to rip to flac it rips to wav and then converts it to flac. 

Hungryhalibut posted:

The reason it is no slower is because the Serve always rips to wav. If you have set it to rip to flac it rips to wav and then converts it to flac. 

Indeed, as indicated by my carefully placed comma! The subsequent conversion to FLAC must be pretty quick.

Adam Zielinski posted:

ChrisSU posted:

How do these things talk to each other, carrier pigeon? ... 

Morese code probably  ...

Yep, pretty much like that (but OK, it's a much updated version of it anyway and the keying's a lot faster than a human can manage). 

Huge posted:

Adam Zielinski posted:

ChrisSU posted:

How do these things talk to each other, carrier pigeon? ... 

Morese code probably  ...

Yep, pretty much like that (but OK, it's a much updated version of it anyway and the keying's a lot faster than a human can manage). 

...and unlike humans, no need for a spellcheck either ;-)