Hi All,

I also can play HD tracks and use Flac. However I cannot get the album art to show. I put it in folder.jpg but nothing shows. Anyone been able to solve this?

Thanks

mbee wrote:

On some tracks, I can hear a huge difference between the CD converted in FLAC and the same song bought on Qobuz in 24/96. And I'm sure it's not a placebo effect, as I've invited some friends to tell the difference between files, and they were never wrong, always prefering the depth of the 24/96 files.

So I'm sure that I hear the difference between CD and HD, but I'm quite sure that what I'm hearing is the difference between 24 and 16bits, and not the difference between 44,1 and 96kHz sampling rate, but that's personnal, maybe some people here can hear the difference.

But here you are assuming that is was exactly the same stereo audio master that was used to generate the FLAC file and the Qobuz file - this is certainly not guaranteed and it's very likely that whoever was commisioned to render the FLAC and Qobuz file did their own "mastering" before encoding.

It is therefore possible (if not even probable) that the differences you hear have nothing to do with the actually codec or encoding bitdepth/frequency.

Puncher wrote:

It is therefore possible (if not even probable) that the differences you hear have nothing to do with the actually codec or encoding bitdepth/frequency.

Interesting point of view! 

But in general I agree with Mbee. I converted a lot of DVDA, DVDV, SACD & BR in the digital domain to hi-res FLAC myself and there is most of the times a notable difference. But not always!?!

A nice example: the Beatles album collection on USB (official Apple release). Even despite they are "only" 44.1kHz 24bit, they are the best sounding Beatles around. 

Sorry for being stupid, but how did you do this?

Carolpa wrote:

I embedded the jpg in the flac file.

 

All pictures are shown on the BS5

Carolpa,

Sorry for being stupid, but how do you do this?

I believe you must use a freeware like mp3tag so you can ad the cover to the whole album.

Carolpa wrote:

Puncher wrote:

It is therefore possible (if not even probable) that the differences you hear have nothing to do with the actually codec or encoding bitdepth/frequency.

Interesting point of view! 

But in general I agree with Mbee. I converted a lot of DVDA, DVDV, SACD & BR in the digital domain to hi-res FLAC myself and there is most of the times a notable difference. But not always!?!

A nice example: the Beatles album collection on USB (official Apple release). Even despite they are "only" 44.1kHz 24bit, they are the best sounding Beatles around. 

It must depend on what you're converting and what you're using to do the conversion. Obviously the conversion isn't, by definition, lossless as you're hearing differences between the source material and the FLAC file. SACD is slightly different as it first needs to be converted from DSD to PCM before it can be encoded as FLAC (unless of course it is the Redbook CD layer that is being converted rather than the high def. SACD layer).

I would be amazed if the FLAC encoder is introducing audible differences.

Puncher wrote:

 

It must depend on what you're converting and what you're using to do the conversion. Obviously the conversion isn't, by definition, lossless as you're hearing differences between the source material and the FLAC file. SACD is slightly different as it first needs to be converted from DSD to PCM before it can be encoded as FLAC (unless of course it is the Redbook CD layer that is being converted rather than the high def. SACD layer).

 

I would be amazed if the FLAC encoder is introducing audible differences.

 

Ban boring signatures!

 

1. The "difference" to be heard is not between the source and the flac file (they are equal), but between 24 bit >44.1 kHz and 16 bit =<44.1 kHz files (PCM, wav, flac). 

2. The conversion was done lossless and compared with the original PCM

3. Redbook CD layer of a SACD is equal to CD (as stated); it would be stupid to define this as high resolution.

4. You' right, but DSD can be extracted from SACD and then converted to PCM and/or Flac (in the digital domain). 

download program from mp3tag.de (Windows); install

Open program

Select one or more music file

Richt click on box with "disc" 

Choose add cover

or

Select music file(s)

choose Tag sources, cover art, Amazon.com

put the album tittle in and choose a cover