Nas / Q NAP/ Apple Mac / Set Up

[uk75]

Welcome to the forum!
As discussed several times, WAV does not provide a proper way to include additional information (so-called tags). Therefore, any serious streaming will usually make use of FLAC or ALAC files. Alac works out of the box with Apple gear, but I would suggest going for FLAC as it has broader support.

WAV files can be batch converted to Flac using a number of programs (I am not a Mac guy, so no suggestions from me - google produced this: http://www.freac.org/). Start by converting a single folder and see what the results are. With regard to tags, well, you may be able to generate them automatically from your file names and the folder structure (e.g. folder name = Artist, subfolder = Album, File name = Track-Title.flac). But usually, it is worthwhile going the extra mile tagging all albums by hand, as there is more to music than just Artist, Album, Track & Title (how about year, composer, genre...?).

There is a dedicated sub-forum here that deals with questions regarding Tagging.
Software (not used by me): e.g. http://kid3.sourceforge.net/


Other thoughts:
You can install Minim alongside Twonky on your QNAP. As your music resides on the QNAP's hard drive(s), the Mac needn't run in order to play some tunes.
The album information is missing for precisely the reasons I gave above: it is not contained in the WAV files. If there are images for the artwork, they might be named in a non-coherent way so that Twonky currently does not "see" them.

Hope this helps you get started.