Squeezebox Duet Receiver - WMA Lossless help

[mattjax05]

Hi All

My SB Receiver is not playing any files in wma lossless (just skips to the next track). I understand that wma may not be handled directly by the receiver (it's coverted by the squeezebox server to another format for the receiver to handle - FLAC I think) so I'm confused as to why and wma files won't play.

I have the squeezebox server installed on a NAS. Any ideas anyone please. The only reason I was using wma (99% of my music is FLAC) was because EAC was struggling to rip some of my older cds (scratched) and windows media player rips them fine - I have tried to play the wma files on WMP and they all work fine.

Matt

 

[Anonymous]

Can you stream WMA lossless files to your Duet from your PC/laptop, rather than your NAS ?

Best option is to convert your WMAL files to FLAC using something like dbpoweramp or foobar.

 

[amcluesent]

>I have the squeezebox server installed on a NAS.<

IIRC Squeezebox Server uses MSFT licensed Windows DLLs to convert WMA, so won't happen on a Linux based NAS.

You can just change EAC from secure to burst mode to handle trashed CDs

 

[mattjax05]

amcluesent:

>I have the squeezebox server installed on a NAS.<

IIRC Squeezebox Server uses MSFT licensed Windows DLLs to convert WMA, so won't happen on a Linux based NAS.

You can just change EAC from secure to burst mode to handle trashed CDs

Good shout on the EAC option, I was looking for that!

I have a Netgear ReadyNAS Duo which should support Windows, MAC, Linux clients. But I did read somewhere that Windows Media needs to be installed on the device running the Squeezebox Server for WMA lossless to be transcoded on the fly.

 

[mattjax05]

THE_FORCE:

Can you stream WMA lossless files to your Duet from your PC/laptop, rather than your NAS ?

Best option is to convert your WMAL files to FLAC using something like dbpoweramp or foobar.

I didn't try streaming from PC as I use an iPod touch instead of the Duet controller and changing the IP address of the music library is a real pain!

Just found the option on EAC to skip the error correction etc. But for the ones I have already ripped in wma lossless I will use foobar for the conversion - out of interest the quality of the file won't be affected will it (wma lossless to flac)?

 

[Alec]

No as far as i understand it the quality shouldnt suffer. I have had recently a question mark as to whether tag info in lossless files will suffer in the change from one lossless format to another. maybe you will find out...