Could somone please tell me how to get the FLAC support to work on Beomaster 5

I can get it to play in WMP 11 in the windows menu, but not on Beosound 5 ???

Peter

Me too, I can get it to play in WMP 11 in the windows/service menu, but not on beosound 5 CD mode.!!

Has anyone yet a solution or maybe even better, a how-to do it manual ??

TripEnglish wrote:

You can convert Apple Lossless to WAV in iTunes. It might be easier to go with a supported format than tweaking to get an unsupported one on board. I went through something similar with FLAC. Got the BS5 to support it, but album artwork wasn't (or at least didn't seem) possible.

Sorry to ask!. But how did you get BS5 to support flac ???

I tried via the service menu to install a flac codec on the media player, but i could'nt play any flac files.. ??

dkresz wrote:

Also, you may find that Apple Lossless audio files played on Windows-based software (i.e. the BeoPlayer / BeoSound media player software loaded on the BeoMaster) have a slightly inferior sound quality than the supported lossless formats (i.e. WMA Lossless).  Try a compare of the same sound clip in the two different formats. 

That's simply not true unless something is amiss with, say, the plugin.

Both are converted to uncompressed PCM on-the-fly when playing, so if it's installed properly and it's not buggy, there will be no difference whatsoever. They will be the exact same bit for bit and thus also sound exactly the same.

Edit:

Wave and aiff are just containers for the PCM - the raw audio data. The difference is "Little endian" and "Big endian", which merely means that one has the information bit last in the "word", and the other having it at the beginning of the word. Both "formats" (containers) carry the exact same information as does the lossless compression schemes such as FLAC, ALAC, WMA Lossless, and what have you. There is no difference in the resulting PCM, the resulting audio. Any difference you hear is imaginary.

/end edit

Did anyone find a solution to play FLAC on beosound 5 ??

gronkjaer wrote:

Did anyone find a solution to play FLAC on beosound 5 ??

You could try searching for a

I tried that, and could'nt get it to work ??

When somebody have a usable solution, pls. let me know in this thread !

I'm, as well still working on it.