Very newbie question: how do I tell if minimstreamer is runnng?

[pete_w]

(23-12-2022 17:45)simoncn Wrote:  When transcoding other stream types, wav24 transcoding does provide benefits compared with wav transcoding. I listen to BBC radio AAC 320k streams and using aac:wav24 on these streams creates true 24-bit samples where the low-order bits contain audio information. This is because aac:wav24 transcoding uses floating-point calculations with more than 24 bits of precision. In contrast, aac:wav transcoding only produces 16-bit samples.

Thanks, Simon, that's very interesting. I'll play with that in due course, if I decide to keep the Rossini.

It doesn't unfortunately answer my original question, which is how I tell if the trranscoding is working? As I said in my original mail, when I'm playing a WAV file, I see a bit rate coming out of the NAS box that makes sense. When I played a flac file, I saw about half that, which suggests that the flac file itself is being played out, not the expanded version.

Christmas is here, so this'll all have to wait for a few days now, I (and I suspect many others) have better things to do :-). But I'm chasing shadows, because the comparison in my original post was between WAV over USB (from my old squeezebox, modded to have a streaming async USB output) and FLAC from minimserver/NAS/ethernet. There was a big difference in SQ; unfortunately a wav-vs-wav comparison reveals a similar difference, so it appears that my first problem isn't flac-vs-wav conversion but getting hold of some electrical/optical/electrical isolation for the ethernet going to the Rossini. Sigh.

While we're here, am I right in assuming that minimserver works, essentially, just with tags? Part of my music collection (the bits that *I* ripped) are mostly in FLAC or ALAC and are relatively well-tagged. Some bits that may have been <cough> shared with me are just WAVs in an artist/album/track tree. Squeeze never minded that too much, it was always happy to scan that tree, work out what it meant, and include it in its database, completely transparently. So if I'm to be dragged into this modern uPnP/DLNA world, does my future have to involve an awful lot of batch-conversion and tagging?