The saga continues...
I've reported FLAC issues previously, but never quite had the whole picture figured out. Well, tonight, after a 6 pack and several hours of research, I think I've got it.
Media Center 12 (versions ranging all the way up to the new 12.0.139) refuses to transfer FLAC songs to my Rio Karma. Not cool.
Here's the situation
- I installed the Rio Music Manager software (in WinXP) and it transfers all my FLACs with no problem
- Media Center 12 *appears* to do the same, but leaves the Rio with 0 files visible on it
- Viewing the Rio in the Music Manager software afterwards shows a few gigs used, but 0 songs in the list
- Transfers of small batches of FLACs encoded with varying encoder software resulted in the same
- I'm using the latest FLAC 2.02/2.10 decoder/encoder for MC12
- Countless re-formats in Music Manager and Media Center continued to prove these results
- Transfers of MP3s work flawlessly in both programs
- I'm still getting the umlauted "y" character appended in front of a few of my albums (Björk, Kraftwerk and a few others?) when transferred to the Rio
- The Rio Music Manager seems to exhibit this same umlaut problem until I upgraded to the latest unofficial version of it (2.96) which "fixes unicode issues"
Please help! I would very much prefer to live in Media Center and never have to touch that Rio software again. I would also like to convert all my cds to FLAC, but this does not bode well! Thanks!