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Any downside to FLAC on BS5?

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Stan
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Stan Posted: Wed, May 11 2016 5:53 PM

I'm considering converting my mostly wma lossless music collection on my BS5 to FLAC.  This is mostly to allow access to the library from my Essence.  From my testing (mostly Pink Floyd CDs), it seems that FLAC playback is not quite gapless on the BS5.  Has anyone else done this conversion?  If so, are you glad you did?  Any other issues I need to be aware of?  I am planning to use MediaMonkey to do the conversion so if there are any pointers on this, those are welcome, too.

Thanks,

Stan

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koning replied on Wed, May 11 2016 7:08 PM

I don't think that wav files are gapless either.

Dbpoweramp is a very goodprogram for conversion.

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CB replied on Wed, May 11 2016 10:17 PM

The Essence is not able to decode FLAC files alone. You'll need the Beomusic app running on a mobile device during the listening (as far as I remember...).

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I just send (via a DLNA app) some FLAC files to my Essence and joined in through my V1 (because that is where I sit right now).

They play fine - even the 24/96 ones.

I did not use the Beomusic app - but of course that shows whats playing, when I opened the app.

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Stan replied on Thu, May 12 2016 12:42 AM

Yeah, I've had no problems playing my few FLAC files through my Essence without my phone being on-line.  Set up the play queue via BeoMusic, but then turned off the app.

But I do sort of remember a discussion about this a few years ago so maybe this a limitation that was removed.

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Carolpa replied on Thu, May 12 2016 1:49 AM
CB:

The Essence is not able to decode FLAC files alone. You'll need the Beomusic app running on a mobile device during the listening (as far as I remember...).

Simply not true.

The Essence mm II can handle flac just fine; up to 24bit 192kHz without problem
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Carolpa replied on Thu, May 12 2016 3:03 AM
Stan:

I'm considering converting my mostly wma lossless music collection on my BS5 to FLAC. This is mostly to allow access to the library from my Essence. From my testing (mostly Pink Floyd CDs), it seems that FLAC playback is not quite gapless on the BS5. Has anyone else done this conversion? If so, are you glad you did? Any other issues I need to be aware of? I am planning to use MediaMonkey to do the conversion so if there are any pointers on this, those are welcome, too.

Thanks,

Stan

Tip, use the conversion sw of Poikosoft (www.poikosoft.com) easy, fast, accurate. I bought a license back in 2002 and still using it.

And yes I converted many WMA lossless to flac;
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CB replied on Thu, May 12 2016 8:43 AM

Carolpa:
CB:
The Essence is not able to decode FLAC files alone. You'll need the Beomusic app running on a mobile device during the listening (as far as I remember...).
Simply not true.

The Essence mm II can handle flac just fine; up to 24bit 192kHz without problem

Also for mk1 now? (It wasn't true at the launch of the Essence...)

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