Beosound/Master5 Ripping Codec

Hi, In checking the formats of compression CODECS on my recently purchased system I've noticed that it only has WMA Lossless and MP3 320, I was hoping to migrate to using FLAC but it appears not to be an option? Is this something that can be added? Or is the recommendation to stick with the WMA? Thanks

For my BS5; I keep all files WMA lossless, but also have FLAC files on my BM5

Merlin712:

Hi, In checking the formats of compression CODECS on my recently purchased system I've noticed that it only has WMA Lossless and MP3 320, I was hoping to migrate to using FLAC but it appears not to be an option? Is this something that can be added? Or is the recommendation to stick with the WMA? Thanks

It’s actually recommended to use the MP3 format to enabled you to use the ripped content on other devices. I think that WMA via XP is also discontinued

My BS5 supports WMA (lossless and lossy), FLAC, MP3 and WAV. Only WMA supports gapless playback, but the FLAC gaps are barely noticeable to me. Then again, most of my music is WMA (lossless). It also supports transcoding so it serves your WMA-lossless files as FLAC when operating as a music server. In this way, a device that does not support WMA-lossless (e.g. BS2, Eclipse , Essence) can still play music from the BM5.  I was going to convert my library to FLAC, but when I found this feature there was no need.

I don't think it matters what XP supports since XP is no longer supported.