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Time to Rip! But which codec for multiple clients?

Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 4:59 pm
by HDPete
Well, a shoulder operation has rendered me housebound for a week, so the wife has kindly suggested that I rip the CD collection to the Terastation NAS (running Twonky 4.4b4).

I intend to use Exact Audio Copy (EAC) with AccurateRip and would like to use a lossless format for absolute best reproduction with my high end AV equipment.

My DLNA clients are a Roku Soundbridge M2000 and a PS3, both with the latest firmware.

It seems that the PS3 will not play .FLAC and the Roku will not play lossless WMA.

What are my other 'lossless' options with Twonky with this combination of clients?

Cheers in advance!
Pete

Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 5:20 pm
by sansp00
I would still go with FLAC, but use the transcoding plugin provided by Twonky. It's the lossless encoding which is the most widespread and accepted AFAIK.

My collection is presently in lossy, but if I had to do it again, I would go FLAC.
My 2 cents
Patrick S.

Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 6:23 pm
by HDPete
Cheers, but I don't think that the FLAC transcoding is available for the ARM procs of the Terastation / Linkstation (or are they>>?)

Pete.

Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 1:41 am
by sansp00
Good point, maybe someone from Twonky could respond to this one ...
Patrick S.

Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 7:20 am
by twonky-christian
nope

no FLAC there

go for WMA lossless - it has more support on the players than FLAC

Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 9:49 am
by sergiyz
twonky-christian wrote:nope

no FLAC there

go for WMA lossless - it has more support on the players than FLAC
I've tried both flac (using transcoder in cgi-bin) and wma lossless.
Both show as unsupported content on PS3.
Any suggestions ?

Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 8:08 pm
by jensph
sergiyz wrote:I've tried both flac (using transcoder in cgi-bin) and wma lossless.
Both show as unsupported content on PS3.
Can you play a WMA lossless file on your PS3 from a thumbdrive?

Check your audio settings on the PS3. Make sure that WMA support is turned on.

Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 11:33 pm
by sjm
IMO, stick with MP3. I know its not lossless, but if done properly, it is "transparent". Transparent meaning you can not distinguish a difference from the original. The thing is with MP3, you are pretty much guaranteed it will work in anything you play it in which is of huge importance to me. WMA 192K is also very good and very compatible. AAC is a very good codec, not quite as compatible.

Spend a little time at http://www.hydrogenaudio.org It is an excellent site that has a lot information on all the codecs, lossy and lossless.

Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2007 12:03 am
by sergiyz
sjm wrote:IMO, stick with MP3. I know its not lossless, but if done properly, it is "transparent". Transparent meaning you can not distinguish a difference from the original. The thing is with MP3, you are pretty much guaranteed it will work in anything you play it in which is of huge importance to me. WMA 192K is also very good and very compatible. AAC is a very good codec, not quite as compatible.

Spend a little time at http://www.hydrogenaudio.org It is an excellent site that has a lot information on all the codecs, lossy and lossless.
I don't care about MP3 at all.
It's a lossy format, and I *can* hear the difference.
In addition, I prefer to rip my CDs lossless as a backup and I certainly don't want to recompress them and keep another copy in MP3.
twonky guys already replied to me that neither flac nor wma lossless are available on PS3.
Definitely bad news.
I hope PS3 will play at least wma lossless eventually.
Otherwise I'll just buy a streaming box from these guys:
http://www.slimdevices.com/index.html?
and be done with it.