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I’ve had my WD Live Hub for several days and I’m mostly thrilled with it; I’ve tried Windows Media Center from a PC, an HP MC extender, all sorts of ideas to play my content on my HD TV and sound system and the Live Hub is by far the best.

Nothing is ever perfect though and I’m running into one problem I can’t get past.  Most of my music is on a Win 7 PC in .wav format.  When I transfer to the Live Hub’s internal drive, the album art does not make the trip.

Any ideas/suggestions?  Since the music will be played through a fairly high end audio system, I’d like the best quality possible so I’d like to stay with .wav format.  Or, can someone tell me which format has the best quality AND supplies all the information about the content?

Having found what I think is the best player I’m not opposed to recapturing all my CDs, if that’s what it takes.  If it does, I have both Win 7 and Mac computers.

TexasMike

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You might want to look into putting the WAVs into FLAC.   I *think* FLAC can have an embedded thumbnail, but I’m not sure.

All my library is MP3, and the album art is inside each file’s ID3 tags.

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Thanks for the reply.  I’m looking at FLAC but not finding any programs that are user freindly.  So far.

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I’ve recently used MediaMonkey to test out WAV, FLAC (2 versions), and WMA (Pro & Lossless) formats.  RIpping from CD is pretty straightforward… and has options / settings  (not all of which I fully understand - ie. compression vs speed vs bitrate).  I’ve tested 2 versions of the FLAC on the HUB and they sound identical.  The WMA Lossless did not work.  I also had to do some auto tagging of info (album cover) sometimes… and I’m not sure why only sometimes. 

Maybe check out CNET reviews for other ripping software, as well?  ned