I have been playing 5.1 24/96 files through HDMI into my Denon avr 4306, I am trying to play a 32/96 5.1 wma pro file but the WD just skips through the tracks. Is the problem 32 bits, if so how can I resample keeping 5.1 plus 96Khz so I can play the files?
I am not sure that wma pro is supported on the WDTV Live and thats probably why the player is skipping them.
http://community.wdc.com/t5/WD-TV-Live-Live-Plus-Ideas/WMA-PRO-Audio-channel-support/idi-p/17509
Sorry if it was not clear, I know the files are not supported as the Wd skips them, I wish to know how to get them to play, by re-encoding them.
Did you try a Google search; there are plenty of WMA to wave guides and software.
capable of converting 5.1 96Khz 32 bit WMA PRO?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Media_Audio
Windows Media Audio (WMA) is a proprietary audio data compression technology that forms part of the Windows Media framework. If you want to play a compatible audio format through the WDTV Live, you are stuck with whatever software a developer chooses to develop and market.
5.1 is a surround sound movie format not an audiophile audio format.
People cannot hear digital; people hear analogue. 96 KHz 32 bit is irrelevant. It is the quality of the digital to analogue conversion and the analogue inter-modulation and harmonic distortion produced by the analogue amplifier in the D to A chip that determines quality.
WMA is already compressed. A well recorded 44.1 KHz 16 bit uncompressed audiophile recording will sound better than a mediocre recorded compressed 96 KHz 32 bit recording.
It took 30 seconds to find the following using Google:
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help/faq?s=files&i=wma-proprietary
You really must try a DTS 24/96 5.1 recording.
it took less than 30 seconds to find this
