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As the title states, how do I just have a setting in transcoding from FLAC to WAV? All of my music is in FLAC format and would like to just send it to my home theater in WAV format, not change it to MP3. I want to keep the original 1411kbps bitrate. I don't understand how to add a new transcoding line. Any help is appreciated.

Thanks

This should be pretty easy. In your Subsonic server settings page, just change the flac > mp3 entry to flac > wav, change the "convert to" field to wav instead of mp3, and then delete the stuff in the box for Step 2. You'll probably also want to disable the wav > mp3 entry. Save the settings and try it out!

Just out of interest why do you want to do this?

FLAC is lossless and will take less bandwidth to stream than wave. You gain nothing by transcoding to wave and streaming it.

delcypher wrote:Just out of interest why do you want to do this?

FLAC is lossless and will take less bandwidth to stream than wave. You gain nothing by transcoding to wave and streaming it.

Because going FLAC to MP3 makes it Lossy. When going from FLAC to WAV, the stream stays Lossless and gets sent to the stereo receiver that way, which can handle WAV files just fine. Also, I am not worried about badwidth. My house is completely Gigabit with cat6 and wireless n. I have no problem streaming WAV to my phone, or wirelessly around the house to the laptops.

Helter wrote:This should be pretty easy. In your Subsonic server settings page, just change the flac > mp3 entry to flac > wav, change the "convert to" field to wav instead of mp3, and then delete the stuff in the box for Step 2. You'll probably also want to disable the wav > mp3 entry. Save the settings and try it out!

Thank you for the help.

You could just do no transcoding at all and stream your flac files as they are. This would. reduce cpu load on your computer. To do that you would just disable all the transcoders for the particular player you are using (settings > players).

delcypher wrote:You could just do no transcoding at all and stream your flac files as they are. This would. reduce cpu load on your computer. To do that you would just disable all the transcoders for the particular player you are using (settings > players).

My assumption, based on what he said, is that the media box he's streaming to can't decode FLAC files, but can handle WAV.

Cheers,
Kirk

I would like to do pretty much the same thing. 95% of my music collection is flac encoded. I would like to play as high quality as I can at home. This includes my host PC and my A/V systems. I've done all the above: created a flac>flac and a flac>wav transcode, selected them in my host/admin player ...won't play, it cycles between all the tracks very quickly. I've tried disableing transcoding at the player, it stalls on a track but won't play. I've stopped and restarted when i've made the changes

Transcoding still works though

Am I doing something wrong? Anybody got ideas? Thanks