WiiM Amp Pro’s (4x so far) & Netgear Ready NAS w/ WD Red Pro HD’s (4 X 10TB) & passive ceiling speakers

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Hi Everyone. My new setup is as described above in the subject header. My question is as follows: Can I save CD’s to my hard drives in WAV and FLAC and/or other different formats and play them all back together or do all files have to be in the same format. In other words, can I mix and match different saved music formats on the same drive and just play them back despite their differing formats. You see I was given a bunch of music files that were preloaded to my drives, which were all saved in WAV format. But I have thousands of CD’s that I want to rip and save, but I prefer saving them in a higher res file format like FLAC. Can I do this without any playback issues. Sorry for such a basic setup question but I don’t want to waste time burning music I can’t then listen to due to mixed formats. Thanks in advance for your patience and help.

 

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Hi Everyone. My new setup is as described above in the subject header. My question is as follows: Can I save CD’s to my hard drives in WAV and FLAC and/or other different formats and play them all back together or do all files have to be in the same format. In other words, can I mix and match different saved music formats on the same drive and just play them back despite their differing formats. You see I was given a bunch of music files that were preloaded to my drives, which were all saved in WAV format. But I have thousands of CD’s that I want to rip and save, but I prefer saving them in a higher res file format like FLAC. Can I do this without any playback issues. Sorry for such a basic setup question but I don’t want to waste time burning music I can’t then listen to due to mixed formats. Thanks in advance for your patience and help.

FLAC or WAV shouldn't matter as they're common media formats. I'd recommend using FLAC for lossless.

You should be able to run Ready DLNA on your Ready NAS. It's probably the easiest way to share with the WiiM Amp Pros. Others on the forum may have first hand knowledge of the Ready NAS for other possibilities.

 

[Mr Ee]

Welcome.

Yes, you can mix and match.
Wav and flac are, essentially, identical as far as music content goes.
If you rip your cds to wav you have an exact, full-size copy. i.e. if the cd has 700MB of data the wav is 700MB.
If you rip to flac you have a compressed, but lossless, copy, maybe less than half that size, say 300MB.
The flac can be uncompressed to recreate the full 700MB wav with no loss whatsoever.
Many ripping tools rip to wav, apply whatever level of flac compression you specified to create the flac then delete the wav.
Flac is generally preferred because it is free, smaller files, lossless and has better metadata capabilities (aka tagging) than wav.