Transcoding Asset with Synology - DSF to

[PaulDSD]

I use Asset on a Synology. I have albums in Flac (16 and 24 bit PCM up to 384 Khz) and DSF (up to 128). Because some of my DAC's do not support DSD (or only support DSD 64 and not DSD 128), I decided to switch DSD (i.e. DSF files) to transcoding. There are a couple of options (mainly LPCM and WAV). If I use WAV, it works fine but artwork do not show up. If I use LPCM it does not work at all (i.e. files don t show up in Asset; the album does show up but not the music files). What does LPCM exactly mean and what is the practical difference with WAV in this case?

[Spoon]

Re: Transcoding Asset with Synology - DSF to

LPCM is a different audio format, not all players support it.

[PaulDSD]

Re: Transcoding Asset with Synology - DSF to

LPCM is a different audio format, not all players support it.

Can PCM be an option in the transcoding instead of LPCM? Or is that just WAV?

[Spoon]

Re: Transcoding Asset with Synology - DSF to

WAVE is PCM

[PaulDSD]

Re: Transcoding Asset with Synology - DSF to

WAVE is PCM

I am afraid about loss of metadata. How much imbedded metadata is lost when transcoding from DSF to WAV? Would transcoding in FLAC be a future option

[Spoon]

Re: Transcoding Asset with Synology - DSF to

No metadata is transferred when transcoding, that said with UPnP most players does not read the ID Tags from files (because they can be at the end of the file and it would take a long time to read the file before playback), instead they read the tags from the UPnP server which passes them out.