I was trying to help. Good luck.
Brian.
I appreciate the help, I didn't mean my reply to be so terse. I just don't see how people can really use WAV, or at least WAV is useless for me due to lack of metadata. Maybe I'm weird but all my playlists are smartlists, based on genre and rating, and my daily use playlists are also based on last played. I almost never play my music by looking up specific artists or albums. Frankly the idea of having to browse and find music by folder gives me chills.
The great thing about MC (and Sync, and which really, really bugs me about aftermarket head units, but I'll not get on that soapbox now) is that I can sync my whole library to a flash drive, based on those rating-based dynamic playlists, and all those files are synced to the flash drive, playlists are written, and it's all recognized by Sync and gives me the closest experience to MC on the go that I've seen anywhere. And it's not dependent on a wireless connection (4G or Bluetooth) or phone-car idiosyncrasies.
Being able to do this is even more important with non-PC devices since their playlist capabilities are so pathetic. You can't add things to a playlist in a car for example, you can play a folder, a genre, artist, album (the last three of course are not possible with wav) or a statically defined playlist.
If Jim decides to drop WMA conversion support, so be it, I'll be sad, but I'll just switch MP3. The last bit of quality isn't that important in a noisy car, but metadata is. But it's nice to have the piece of mind knowing I'm not leaving anything on the table. But so long as WMA is included as a "supported" conversion, I'll be asking for it to be fixed.
And of course happy to provide whatever debug information I can to achieve that end