tdw
01-12-2008, 02:03 PM
I have three basic requirements for my music which I don't feel is that unreasonable:
1) To be able to play lossless quality audio on my ipod and display the album artwork.
2) To be able to stream lossless quality audio around the house to the various iTunes enabled PC's and Mac's via Netgear ReadyNAS NV's
3) To be able to stream video and audio on my PS3*.
OK - so you think that would be simple - but no - so maybe I'm not as clever as I thought I was :-)
Firstly, I ripped all my 1000 + CD's to FLAC using dbpoweramp. That's fine - and iTunes will play the FLAC files from the ReadNAS using (presumably) the onthefly FLAC convertor. PROBLEM - It doesn't display the album artwork! - Now before someone tells me that FLAC doesn't support artwork - my understanding is that the latest version does and having first used dbpoweramp to do the rip and then tag and rename to clean up missing artwork, etc. I thought this would be OK.
Secondly - knowing full well that the FLAC files won't play on my iPOD, I then chose to recode all the FLAC files again using dbpoweramp - into Apple Lossless. So that went well - and I could then play the resultant files in iTunes locally and the atwork would display. PROBLEM - the Apple Lossless files will not work when trying to stream to other machines via the Firefly iTunes Server. iTunes can see the files, but they refuse to play. Further investigation led me to run the dbpoweramp m4a optimizer over all the files - as the optimiser "moving the meta data to the beginning, whilst optionally creating a hint track (used for streaming m4a over Apple Airtunes)." Unfortunately, this made absolutely no difference.
I can play the files in iTunes locally, but they will not play when trying to stream off the ReadyNAS.
So, I'm stumped - I visited this whole sceanrio once before, gave up and just converted everything into MP3's which has been working fine for the last year or so - but whilst my music objectives are as above, I really don't want to have to store numerous file types. As it is I've just had to invest in another ReadyNAS so that I can keep my music/video files seperate to my personal/work stuff :-)
Any help, suggestions, ideas or comments would be more than welcome....
I've also posted a similar message on the FireFly Forum :smile2:
1) To be able to play lossless quality audio on my ipod and display the album artwork.
2) To be able to stream lossless quality audio around the house to the various iTunes enabled PC's and Mac's via Netgear ReadyNAS NV's
3) To be able to stream video and audio on my PS3*.
OK - so you think that would be simple - but no - so maybe I'm not as clever as I thought I was :-)
Firstly, I ripped all my 1000 + CD's to FLAC using dbpoweramp. That's fine - and iTunes will play the FLAC files from the ReadNAS using (presumably) the onthefly FLAC convertor. PROBLEM - It doesn't display the album artwork! - Now before someone tells me that FLAC doesn't support artwork - my understanding is that the latest version does and having first used dbpoweramp to do the rip and then tag and rename to clean up missing artwork, etc. I thought this would be OK.
Secondly - knowing full well that the FLAC files won't play on my iPOD, I then chose to recode all the FLAC files again using dbpoweramp - into Apple Lossless. So that went well - and I could then play the resultant files in iTunes locally and the atwork would display. PROBLEM - the Apple Lossless files will not work when trying to stream to other machines via the Firefly iTunes Server. iTunes can see the files, but they refuse to play. Further investigation led me to run the dbpoweramp m4a optimizer over all the files - as the optimiser "moving the meta data to the beginning, whilst optionally creating a hint track (used for streaming m4a over Apple Airtunes)." Unfortunately, this made absolutely no difference.
I can play the files in iTunes locally, but they will not play when trying to stream off the ReadyNAS.
So, I'm stumped - I visited this whole sceanrio once before, gave up and just converted everything into MP3's which has been working fine for the last year or so - but whilst my music objectives are as above, I really don't want to have to store numerous file types. As it is I've just had to invest in another ReadyNAS so that I can keep my music/video files seperate to my personal/work stuff :-)
Any help, suggestions, ideas or comments would be more than welcome....
I've also posted a similar message on the FireFly Forum :smile2: