How to live with two codecs simultaneously?

[johannesbb]

Normally I want to use a lossless codec like FLAC to store my music onto my NAS (twonky 4.4.6). But one of my streaming clients (Philips MCI500) does not understand FLAC. :cry:

So I thought I could use DBpoweramp together with its MultiEncoder and rip each track simultaneously with codecs FLAC and MP3 and store them in separate directories. :D

My Philips client works now ok. But all other clients see now two identical tracks instead of one, although the mp3 tracks are stored inside of another folder. :vmad:

Any ideas??

[Spoon]

Re: How to live with two codecs simultaneously?

If your NAS is Windows Home Server:

http://www.dbpoweramp.com/asset-upnp-dlna.htm

Then your philips can play FLAC with Asset decoding it.

[johannesbb]

Re: How to live with two codecs simultaneously?

Thank you for your quick and interesting answer.

I forgot to tell: my NAS is QNAP TS-101 with twonkymedia 4.4.6.
No Windows.

[Spoon]

Re: How to live with two codecs simultaneously?

The 'other folder' (for mp3) would have to be out of the main path that is searched for audio files.

[Teknojnky]

Re: How to live with two codecs simultaneously?

I think this is more a question for the twonky people... basically it sounds like you want to serve 2 different sets of music files to specific devices.

Perhaps a better potential solution would be for the qnap to decode the flac to wave so that your philips can use it.

That would use more bandwidth tho, which might become a factor in wireless situations.