Converting HD Tracks to FLAC

[brentano]

Re: Converting HD Tracks to FLAC

Hi garym, thank you for bringing this to my attention, I had never heard of it before (just shows you how far back I am) I have since done some googling on it and it basically appears a great little device.
Since you are a user of it this makes you the target of some questions. My Music setup is quite simple, as I had mentioned it is stored on a external hard drive in 16 different categories with each category in its own folder.
Combined there are some 360 albums (so far) comprising of around 4500 tracks of music.
Reading up on the Squeezebox Touch I have come across this info in Wiki that concerns m:

" Play songs stored on memory card or USB disk, although it can only handle playlists of 100 songs or less when doing this"

If this is so, that it would be not much good for me. But on the other hand I have been going through some Forums with guys having Music libraries ten times to what I have and are using the Touch.
Confused I am, please clarify if you can.

[garym]

Re: Converting HD Tracks to FLAC

I use Squeezebox players for my audio. The TOUCH and the TRANSPORTER both play 24/96 FLAC files natively. You'd connect the SB player to the analog input of your AV (like a CD player).

or the squeezebox has digital out (s/pdif or optical) that you can connect to the receiver's digital in, assuming the receiver handles 24/96 (and you think the receiver's dac is better than the TOUCH or transporter DAC.

[garym]

Re: Converting HD Tracks to FLAC

I use Squeezebox players for my audio. The TOUCH and the TRANSPORTER both play 24/96 FLAC files natively. You'd connect the SB player to the analog input of your AV (like a CD player).

[brentano]

Re: Converting HD Tracks to FLAC

Thank you mville, great idea, I have done so, now I will have to wait and hope that Yamaha will send me a reply.
Know of any AV,s that can play 96/24 tracks.

[mville]

Re: Converting HD Tracks to FLAC

I can not find any specific figures as to what sample rate and bit depth the Yamaha can go to for audio only. DTS 96/24 is what I would be capable to produce in audio playing blu ray movies.
What are your thoughts.

Email Yamaha and ask them what audio file formats, sample rate and bit depth the Yamaha RX-V2065 plays.

Then you can use dBpoweramp to convert the Hi-Res flacs.

[garym]

Re: Converting HD Tracks to FLAC

aha. sorry, I missed that point.

[brentano]

Re: Converting HD Tracks to FLAC

Hi garym, that is what I had done in the first place, but the Yamaha gives me the message " Can not play this file" . Problem being is the Yamaha unable to play it through the USB input, or have I just not been able to find the correct settings. I can play standard flac files without any problems.
Hence my original request to convert HD FLAC to standard FLAC.
I have 3 HD albums on the hard drive and it is the same with all 3.

[garym]

Re: Converting HD Tracks to FLAC

why not just copy the file to your yamaha connected harddrive and try to play it?

[brentano]

Re: Converting HD Tracks to FLAC

Hi, and thank you mville and Spoon,
as mentioned in my first post, please be patent. I am only beginning to experiment in the finer art of listening to music and don't understand a lot of tech talk, but I am trying.
The HD tracks are in flac 96KHz / 24 bit that is what it states here. Link to HDTracks:

https://www.hdtracks.com/index.php?file=catalogdetail&valbum_code=HD090368032362

Studying my Yamaha Manual again I think I have found something, by the way the Model is: Yamaha RX - V2065.
The following Features I have found:
Digital audio decoders
Dolby True HD, Dolby Digital Plus decoder
DTS-HD Master Audio, DTS- HD High Resolution Audio, DTS Express
Dolby Digital/Dolby Digital EX decoder
DTS, DTS 96/24 decoder, DTS-ES Matrix 6.1, DTS-ES Discrete 6.1
Dolby Pro Logic/Dolby Pro LOgicII/Dolby ProLogicIIx decoder
DSD decoder DTS Neo:6 decoder

This makes me wonder now, if I do can play HD tracks. By the way I should mention that the rest of my music FlAC and some MP3's (320) are all on a 2½" external hard drive that I connect to my USB port on the Yamaha.
I can not find any specific figures as to what sample rate and bit depth the Yamaha can go to for audio only. DTS 96/24 is what I would be capable to produce in audio playing blu ray movies.
What are your thoughts.

[Spoon]

Re: Converting HD Tracks to FLAC

You can convert FLAC to FLAC, include the DSP effect 'resample' and 'bitdepth' set to the maximum that the Yamaha can play. Be-careful not to over write the existing higher quality flac files.

[mville]

Re: Converting HD Tracks to FLAC

1. What exact file format, sample rate and bit depth are the HD Tracks?

2. Please confirm which file format, sample rate and bit depth your Yamaha AV plays?

3. How does the Yamaha AV read audio files? i.e. are you streaming the files, playing them from DVD/CD etc.?

[brentano]

Hi all,
As you can see I am new here and don't know much of what I am trying to do, so please be patent with me.

What I am trying to achieve is: I have bought Music Albums from HD Tracks that are as the name suggests in HD quality 96000Hz in 32 bit I think. I can play them OK on my Windows PC using MediaMonkey or Audacity, but I can not play them through my main system my Yamaha AV plays FLAC , MP3, and more but not HD.
The Support people from HD tracks adviced me to call in here, suggesting that db Poweramp would be able to convert to FLAC.
Audacity will only convert to MP3, but why convert such quality sound to MP3.

So this is it in a Nutshell, can anyone guide me to success here.
Many thanks in advance.