Question
WMA Lossless transcoding options?
I'm aware that Sonos doesn't natively support WMA lossless, and due to processing power and/or licensing issues probably never will. However, I own a large-ish collection in that format (about 60% of a library of around 12,000 songs, the remainder are lossy from my wife's collection), and several media players whose preferred format is WMA lossless, including the three rooms where I have sufficient quality amplification and speakers for the difference to be noticeable.
I'm interested in using the Sonos Connect (probably a few of them) to feed my Niles Auriel multi-room system, and in the rooms this will be used for largely don't matter if I'm using 320 kbps MP3 or a lossless format. So, I'm wondering if there's a method of transcoding on the fly and feeding it to Sonos, or would using Sonos and keeping WMA lossless for other locations mean that I'd have to maintain two separate libraries?
I have plenty of compute power available in various servers to do an on the fly transcode, as well as plenty of disk space, but maintaining two separate libraries in sync with each other, including playlists and such, would seem problematic at best. Is there a better way? Sonos seems such a better and less expensive choice than using an Autonomic Mirage for my needs, since I basically need a dumb player with decent DAC, and not a full-up music server with media management, as I have that already. For instance, will Sonos simply talk to a LMS that can do the transcode?
Thanks in advance for the help!
I'm interested in using the Sonos Connect (probably a few of them) to feed my Niles Auriel multi-room system, and in the rooms this will be used for largely don't matter if I'm using 320 kbps MP3 or a lossless format. So, I'm wondering if there's a method of transcoding on the fly and feeding it to Sonos, or would using Sonos and keeping WMA lossless for other locations mean that I'd have to maintain two separate libraries?
I have plenty of compute power available in various servers to do an on the fly transcode, as well as plenty of disk space, but maintaining two separate libraries in sync with each other, including playlists and such, would seem problematic at best. Is there a better way? Sonos seems such a better and less expensive choice than using an Autonomic Mirage for my needs, since I basically need a dumb player with decent DAC, and not a full-up music server with media management, as I have that already. For instance, will Sonos simply talk to a LMS that can do the transcode?
Thanks in advance for the help!