.wav file won't compress to .flac

[Joe Katz]

Hello --

I have a .wav file that was sent to me (i.e., I didn't rip it from a CD). I have tried to compress it to .flac using the usual method (Settings/Compress Now), but no luck. The friend who sent it assures me it's a good file -- any ideas? Thanks!

[Peter Lowham]

Hi Joe,

Did you run 'Scan Disk' after loading the 'wav' file into the B2?  Otherwise the B2 won't know about it.

Regards,

Peter.

[Joe Katz]

Hi Peter --

Yes, I did. The B2 knows about it:

 


Thanks,

Joe

[JFBUK]

Hi all,

I know this has been discussed before but I wonder whether the B2 will actually compress WAV files that have been uploaded or imported, ie not ripped from a CD by the B2 ?

My gut feel is no because it would mean you could not store WAV files on the B2 hard drive without them being compressed automatically by the B2.

There is no means to select what files you want to compress in the B2 compress now function.

Maybe Paul@Brennan could confirm ?

John

[PMB]

Hi Joe,

Does the WAV file play OK on the B2?

I'll have to ask the question about whether the B2 will compress an imported WAV file.

Paul

Brennan Support.

[Peter Lowham]

Hi Guys,

I have just run a test using Joe's process.  I copied a CD to '.wav' format (6 tracks) on my laptop then copied it through NAS to a B2.  Then I ran 'Scan Disk' which registered the new '.wav' tracks in the 'b2db' database file.

I closed the WebUI down and five minutes later auto compression started up.  That ran through to completion a few minutes and I'm now playing the tracks.

So the B2 does not care where a track comes from; if it finds a '.wav' track in the database, and compression is set, then it will compress it.

@Joe; it looks like the your '.wav' file has some characteristic that the B2 compression process does not like.  Can you play the track on your laptop using Windows Media Player for example, and see what happens?

WMP will also compress tracks, so that is another suggestion; do the compression there and then copy the coverted '.flac' track across to the B2. 

Regards,

Peter.