BeoSound 5 Forum

Re: Official File support of BM5/BS5?

TWG — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 09:11:24 GMT

I can imagine that this was a realy big "AAAAAAARRRRRGGGGHHHHH!"

I think I will try out the tools mentioned in the above link to the sonos forum. If I can live with those limitations I will only rip selected CDs to WAV format with minimal tagging.

I can't wait to get my Beosound 5!!!!!

Re: Official File support of BM5/BS5?

soundproof — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:30:53 GMT

At a forum for hifi-nuts that I frequent, one user recently lamented having ripped nearly 1500 CDs to WAV, before finding out about the limitations as far as TAGs was concerned. A big AAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!! post resulted.

Re: Official File support of BM5/BS5?

TWG — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 09:18:55 GMT

thank you for this interesting link, puncher.

It realy sounds interesting 'cause it mentioned one thing I completely forgot about:
ID3 tags and WAV does not work together and I don't want 250 CDs named "Track 1 Album X" :-)

But I will test it out with my ears as soon as my BS5 arrives ;-)

Re: Official File support of BM5/BS5?

Puncher — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 02:37:27 GMT

I know you've expressed a preference for WAV format before and so I won't attempt to sway you further but I shall add this link (aothough a little old) for completeness sake, to round off the discussion and for others who may read this at a later date.

WAV vs Lossless

Re: Official File support of BM5/BS5?

TWG — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 13:03:15 GMT

Merci :-)

WAV is simply the best, the raw PCM file. WMA losless, Apple losless is all computerized ...

But WAV has a big problem: No ID3 tags :-)

Re: Official File support of BM5/BS5?

Puncher — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 11:58:56 GMT

Mp3's are OK - see Here, so is aac. WMA is the only lossless compression format supported.

Why WAV-format, surely you are using approximately twice the hard drive space per track/album for absolutely no benefit whatsoever. WMA lossless will give bit perfect playback.

Official File support of BM5/BS5?

TWG — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 11:27:28 GMT

Hi,

my dealer told me today that the BS5 ONLY supports WMA losless, is this correct? I want to stay flexible so my music collection is based on MP3.

Can I copy native MP3 files to the BS5 or do I have to re-rip my entire CD collection?

I'm planning to re-rip my CDs in the future ... but in WAV-format.

Thanks for your help.

Is there a list of file types that the BM5 / BS5 supports native?