On June 18, 2017 at 17:24, Fins said...
As far as starting with a CD copy, these have already been ripped to WMA. I'm not starting over. If it was my own collection, I might. But this is for a client that wouldn't have noticed the difference if I had ripped them into the highest compression MP3 format.
I found DBPowerAmp. I had a bit of trouble at first, but then figured out that most of the codecs aren't built in and have to be installed separately. After that little detail was fixed, it just has to run for the next 17 hours.
That is how I converted my WMA Lossless rips into Flac.
BTW, it was my group at Microsoft that developed WMA Lossless. :) We ported the decoder to Sonos back in 2005 or so. But their CEO refused to ship it claiming their device needed to have capacity to encode the analog input at the same time as decoding WMA Lossless. Their CPU was too weak to do this and no matter how much we explained that the chances of someone encoding on their analog input was low, they would not listen. So we wasted our money and resources in porting WMA to their hardware :(.
I left Microsoft back in 2008 and with it, all the effort toward having our formats supported in other devices stopped.
