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did you have any problems using autoflac with EAC or have you got that far yet? If you follow the instructions that come with autoflac on how to set up EAC it should go pretty smooth.

Good websight about the flac format here:
http://flac.sourceforge.net/

you can go to the downloads section and find links to autoflac, EAC, and many others.

Hi:

I could get the flac files with EAC and autoflac and works like a charm. Just that the players i download to play the flac files sucks. My Denon is not network ready..so either i have to find something that would play those off my NAS or need to convert to mp3.

Will try to find some player that would work, before i go MP3.

Thanks for your help.

Btw, what Denon do you have?

Take a look at the Logitech Squeezebox. I have the Classic and use it to stream FLAC and MP3 files to my Denon/789. This works like a charm. The Classic has very good DACs and I connect it via analog to the Denon and use "pure direct". The sound with the M80's is fantastic.

Thnx..i just borrowed the Squeezebox classic from work. Will give it a try.

Any software based players that can handle flac? I can maybe integrate it in the media center

Avi,
I recently had a similar question in this thread.
Short version:
For software players MediaMonkey, Winamp and Firefly were suggested. I have used Winamp with great success so far.

Hardware devices - Squeezebox as already mentioned, but you might also want to check out Sonos.

Cheers.

Along with what you have already done, Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails) is a big believer in releasing portions of his music online in a variety of lossless formats and he often has free music available from the web sight. Sometimes it's experimental, like his "send me a video of what this music inspires in you" project and other times he just gives away free music. In any case, it's all extremely well mixed and produced and available in FLAC format among others.

EDIT:
I just went to get The Link for you as I realized I forgot it and noticed that the latest NIN album is still available as a free download in MP3 or FLAC and other lossless formats.

Thnx Murph. I will give it a try. I have that album in MP3, will get to know the difference.

I found this interesting..lots of format choices

http://www.2l.no/hires/index.html

Maybe we should do a Axiom CD sampler with some of these high quality samples.

Excellent set of samples to test equipment compatibility.
As soon as I'm home(or tomorrow), I'll download a lot of them and check how my various streamers react to them.

I got the squeezebox connected to my denon. It sounds nice.
One issue i have is it cannot play FLAC files from my NAS. Does it need to have the files on the same machine where i run the server?

It can play the music on the HTPC but gives an error for FLAC on NAS. any ideas?

Do you have an exact error message or is a just a vague "error"?
How did you get it to scan from different locations?