brjoon1021;212852 Wrote: > I read in a thread somewhere that streaming WAV audio was referred to as > a kind of freebie upgrade for sonic quiality when compared to flac. > > I am pretty new to all of this. What is WAV, how do you rip to WAV ? > Are there any drawbacks other than size of file (assuming it large) to > using WAV. Is that what all of the audiophile people are doing? > > Thanks, > > B.
Most rippers rip to WAV in the first place, then transcode to FLAC, MP3 or whatever else you ask for. EAC will do this easily, for example. Besides size of file, streaming WAV uses more network bandwidth which may be an issue in some marginal wireless networks. More importantly, perhaps, you can't (except by using some highly non standard stuff) add tags to WAV files, which makes attaching metadata to your music files a bit tricky (you're limited to whatver you can encode in the file path eg /genre/artist/album/...). Some people do claim that WAV files sound better than FLAC, but I've yet to see an even half-convincing explanation of how this might work. You can always, of course, rip to FLAC (which gives you the smaller files and tagging capability) and have slimserver transcode to WAV on the fly, which would give you the alleged improved sound quality at the only cost of losing FF/RWD capbility (because you can't do that on transcoded streams). HTH Ceejay -- ceejay ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ceejay's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=148 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36628 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
