Hello all!!!
I'm in a little of a pickle and cannot seem to find the answer... and help is appreciated!
We are using a combination of PCs and Apple devices for audio playback. The PCs are running Windows 7 - MCE and the apple devices consist of Apple TVs, etc... All of which are connected to external DACs.
The problem is finding a audio format which all of our devices can play AND support tags (author, album, track, cover art, etc...). I have no interest in maintaining multiple libraries.
Here is a little background...
We have originally been ripping our CDs with EAC as WAVs and adding the TAG information on our Windows box, but WAVs do not store the tag info in the file itself, so portability to other media players (AppleTV) is non-existent. Everything shows up as "unknown artist" and such.
We experimented with Apple Lossless, but found the PC running Windows 7 didn't want to play them! Not to mention, our blind-tests proved the Apple Lossless to be less desirable than the WAVs (even with error correction enabled).
Side note: We are using a 100% fanless PC -> DacMagic ->
Anthem PRE1 -> Anthem AMP1 -> Magnepan 3.6s. We then have AppleTV devices throughout the house hooked up to various other smaller systems. So, our blind-tests are VERY revealing.
So... I'm curious what others are doing to support both the MAC and PC worlds.
Thoughts???
Thanks!