Hello Everyone,
Recently, I decided I wanted to be able to send (stream?) my music collection to each of my Marantz SR 6005s. Since the Marantz can't decode FLAC directly, my plan is to use Foobar on my Windows 7 PCs to play the FLAC files and send the audio to the Marantzs via HDMI. Last week I converted all my CDs to uncompressed FLAC via dBpoweramp and have ordered a NAS (Synology ds213j) which will be here on Wednesday. I currently only have one new hard drive for the NAS (I could only afford one after the cost of the NAS), but I do plan to add another hard drive within 6 months.
1. How do I go about setting up my NAS and configuring the audio settings on my laptop and desktop PC so that the Marantzs can properly decode the music at the right bitrate since I did purchase some, 88khz/24 bit, 176.4khz/24 bit, and 192khz/24 bit music downloads last week? I didn't see a setting that allowed me to select all the bitrates my receiver was capable of decoding in my PC or in Foobar, but to be honest I'm not really sure what I'm looking for.
2. Now that my files are stored on my laptop hard drive, how do I transfer them to the new hard drive? Can you just copy them like any ordinary file or is there a specific way to transfer them so that the files remain accurate, don't lose the ID tags assigned by dBpoweramp, etc.?
As you can see, I have zero experience with playing music files on a PC (I've always used CDs) so any help you could provide for this newbie would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Recently, I decided I wanted to be able to send (stream?) my music collection to each of my Marantz SR 6005s. Since the Marantz can't decode FLAC directly, my plan is to use Foobar on my Windows 7 PCs to play the FLAC files and send the audio to the Marantzs via HDMI. Last week I converted all my CDs to uncompressed FLAC via dBpoweramp and have ordered a NAS (Synology ds213j) which will be here on Wednesday. I currently only have one new hard drive for the NAS (I could only afford one after the cost of the NAS), but I do plan to add another hard drive within 6 months.
1. How do I go about setting up my NAS and configuring the audio settings on my laptop and desktop PC so that the Marantzs can properly decode the music at the right bitrate since I did purchase some, 88khz/24 bit, 176.4khz/24 bit, and 192khz/24 bit music downloads last week? I didn't see a setting that allowed me to select all the bitrates my receiver was capable of decoding in my PC or in Foobar, but to be honest I'm not really sure what I'm looking for.
2. Now that my files are stored on my laptop hard drive, how do I transfer them to the new hard drive? Can you just copy them like any ordinary file or is there a specific way to transfer them so that the files remain accurate, don't lose the ID tags assigned by dBpoweramp, etc.?
As you can see, I have zero experience with playing music files on a PC (I've always used CDs) so any help you could provide for this newbie would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!