I’ve been looking on the forum and haven’t found a recent post about this.
Currently I’m running PMS on my Unraid homeserver and I’dd like to add my HiRes music to a library.
The problem is PMS won’t index my .wav files correctly.
As far as I know wav files are now able to store metadata and all files have ID3v2.3 metadata set.
I’ve enabled the library to use embedded tags if available and I tried to use a normal and a premium Music library.
Whichever way I try more then half of all the files are not indexed correctly.
Does anyone have an option to let PMS index my files.
(Please do give the option to convert them. That’s not an option in this case)
I’ve tried to index it with premium like described in the link (Music/ArtistName/AlbumName/TrackNumber - TrackName.ext). And it didn’t seem to work.
But right now it looks like it is working for almost all of them.
I must have made a small mistake in renaming the tracks.
Do you know how to name everything for albums with two cd’s?
It takes time to convert the files to flac. (which shouldn’t be necessary in the first place)
But most importantly, wav and flac are bit identical, but they are not the same. Flac is compressed. Which means that the device playing the music has to use processing power to decode. For wav decoding isn’t needed so the processor isn’t used as heavily. Which means audio should sound better. (This I definitely want to test).
The processing power for Flac decoding is negligible. The algorithm consumes far more power when encoding the files - which is only necessary once.
I deem that ‘meta-physics’ for the most part.
A sensibly-designed system has the power supplies of CPU and DAC isolated well enough from each other, to prevent any influence from a higher power draw of the CPU on the DAC.
