WAV supports RIFF info tags, but EAC (and just about every other piece of
software) does not support them (slim does apparently). So your meta data is
lost.
Download MP3Tag (http://www.mp3tag.de/en/), or something similar, and you
can tag the files easily form local or remote FreeDB, or from the file name
path ...
h.
-----Original Message-----
From: discuss-bounces (AT) lists (DOT) slimdevices.com
[mailto:discuss-bounces (AT) lists (DOT) slimdevices.com]On Behalf Of Neil Davidson
Sent: 03 October 2004 12:05
To: Slim Devices Discussion
Subject: [slim] Taking the FLAC - successfully!
When you play the flac file you are still streaming 1441kbps to the
squeeze box. At the moment the server is decoding the FLAC to wav and
sending that, there is no hardware decoding of FLAC at present, although i
think it is being worked on.
I didn't think wav files could store any meta data, but i could be wrong
on this. If that is the case then FLAC would have no data when it was
encoding.
> Hi
> I have now updated my slimserver and Squeezebox G to 5.3.1 & 39
> respectively. I can't believe what I was missing with the old
> (non-graphic) 5.2.1!!
> Everything seems to be working exactly as it should, though did have a
> random reboot when i tried to do a search (anyone else?).
> After my previous posts about FLAC - I thought I'd give it a go. Heres
> what I did:
> 1) Used EAC to "rip" me a secure WAV
> 2) Played this uncompressed WAV file (at 1441 kpbs!!) over my wireless
> setup - not a glitch!!!
> 3) Converted WAV to FLAC using the front-end package (1.1.1?)
> 4) Played the FLAC (757kbps) over the wireless setup - no problems again!!
>
> After reading some of the archive posts about FLAC over wireless I am
> hoping I was not just lucky with this one, but it all seems to be working
> fine still.
>
> One question though - I foolishly forgot to create a tag for the FLAC and
> using 1.1.1a tried to edit the tag - but it won't display the info in
> Squeezebox....
> I thought that as EAC (using freedb) had created a WAV tag then FLAC would
> just use that, I am doing something wrong?
>
> (Info on original WAV file: 3:57 sec long, ripped to 39.9Mb WAV file,
> using FLAC (setting "6" for quality?) created a file ~21Mb in size with no
> audible difference to the original - living up to its "lossless
> compression" to my ears then...!)
>
> I think I am going to need more drive space now!
>
> Nic
>
> --
>
> Whatever you Wanadoo:
> http://www.wanadoo.co.uk/time/
>
> This email has been checked for most known viruses - find out more at:
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>
software) does not support them (slim does apparently). So your meta data is
lost.
Download MP3Tag (http://www.mp3tag.de/en/), or something similar, and you
can tag the files easily form local or remote FreeDB, or from the file name
path ...
h.
-----Original Message-----
From: discuss-bounces (AT) lists (DOT) slimdevices.com
[mailto:discuss-bounces (AT) lists (DOT) slimdevices.com]On Behalf Of Neil Davidson
Sent: 03 October 2004 12:05
To: Slim Devices Discussion
Subject: [slim] Taking the FLAC - successfully!
When you play the flac file you are still streaming 1441kbps to the
squeeze box. At the moment the server is decoding the FLAC to wav and
sending that, there is no hardware decoding of FLAC at present, although i
think it is being worked on.
I didn't think wav files could store any meta data, but i could be wrong
on this. If that is the case then FLAC would have no data when it was
encoding.
> Hi
> I have now updated my slimserver and Squeezebox G to 5.3.1 & 39
> respectively. I can't believe what I was missing with the old
> (non-graphic) 5.2.1!!
> Everything seems to be working exactly as it should, though did have a
> random reboot when i tried to do a search (anyone else?).
> After my previous posts about FLAC - I thought I'd give it a go. Heres
> what I did:
> 1) Used EAC to "rip" me a secure WAV
> 2) Played this uncompressed WAV file (at 1441 kpbs!!) over my wireless
> setup - not a glitch!!!
> 3) Converted WAV to FLAC using the front-end package (1.1.1?)
> 4) Played the FLAC (757kbps) over the wireless setup - no problems again!!
>
> After reading some of the archive posts about FLAC over wireless I am
> hoping I was not just lucky with this one, but it all seems to be working
> fine still.
>
> One question though - I foolishly forgot to create a tag for the FLAC and
> using 1.1.1a tried to edit the tag - but it won't display the info in
> Squeezebox....
> I thought that as EAC (using freedb) had created a WAV tag then FLAC would
> just use that, I am doing something wrong?
>
> (Info on original WAV file: 3:57 sec long, ripped to 39.9Mb WAV file,
> using FLAC (setting "6" for quality?) created a file ~21Mb in size with no
> audible difference to the original - living up to its "lossless
> compression" to my ears then...!)
>
> I think I am going to need more drive space now!
>
> Nic
>
> --
>
> Whatever you Wanadoo:
> http://www.wanadoo.co.uk/time/
>
> This email has been checked for most known viruses - find out more at:
> http://www.wanadoo.co.uk/help/id/7098.htm
>