As long as you have the storage, it should be fine, I guess. The tools to transcode could be invoked once, and the result stored for serving to the device. FLAC must be very close to wav and such.įrom what I understand, the thing you lose with transcoding is the trick-play (FF, REW).Īs usual, there is always the possibility of a cache.
My idea is that transcoding of audio should be ok, even on a low power NAS (I have a HP Mediavault).
That kind of problems are easy to address or at least diagnose if your are running your server on a PC, but if your server is a NAS (like the DLink DNS-323 or the Lacie Ethernet Disks), it's more problematic. When moving to another track, will it generate some noticeable delay etc. There might be problems if the server does not handle well garbage collection: for example if it transcode a file into a temporary file and stream the partially or fully completed temporary file, does it clean the file correctly if the client interrupts playing the track. Transcoding requires that your UPnP server supports it and that it has enough power to transcode the file on the fly. Still I don't think it's too exagerate to ask for support of at least one lossless audio format such as FLAC which is open. Nevertheless, for playback I am not too fond of transcoding, although it might be my only solution since I'm not sure if DLink does actually take user wishes into account. That's true FLAC would be the prefered format to store the music since it's lossless and open, so if another format is needed no need to rip again, just have to transcode.
This is where my memory is fuzzy as to what format the DSM-510 supports, but I would think that, as FLAC is pretty much a raw uncompressed high bitrate wave form, would it be possible to look into something simple like wav, or LPCM?įWIW, I am using mediatomb as a media server (under Debian GNU/Linux), and some work has been made towards transcoding of FLAC/CUE. Now, for the playback, if the device does not support FLAC directly, there is always the possibility of transcoding. When I get around to it, I will probably look at a lossless open format, and FLAC/CUE seems like a possible way to go. The idea is that the players will change over time, but there should be no need for you to re-rip your music. I am no expert on this, but, as a general statement, I feel like the format the music is captured in should be separated from the issue of what format the playback device can actually handle.
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