Yes and that’s great, but it’s not something that everyone knows, and the issue comes up many times, particularly on the Naim forum. And followed by arguments about WAV vs FLAC SQ because of Naim‘s silly justification.
Yes I know, that why I thought it worth posting the link, unfortunately I am unable to post on the naim forums. The point is that it allows customers to stick with Wav if they prefer and keep their metadata, also it avoid the issues with using Flac if need to use software doesnt support it (such as Apple Music).
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Go for a test with AIFF instead of WAV. It’s basically WAV but with a much broader supported file tagging, including cover art. Works with Apple out of the box and with Windows anyway.
The only drawback with AIFF is it must be uncompressed for maximum compatibility. There are quite a lot of AIFF compressions introduced over the last few decades but there’s no AIFF compression standard almost every application would support.
I use AIFF uncompressed with file integrated tagging. Until now, no issues with Apple or Windows out of the box support, roon, several roon endpoints and audio renderers with digital input.
Tried file integrated tagging with WAV, and it was a nightmare. And I would never rely on this rather exotic way esp. when it’s about proper support of standalone audio gear.
Wav and Aiff both support ID3 tagging, so tagging capabilities are the same.
I have found Wav to be better supported than Aif but its going to depend on the particular software or hardware you use, but is true that although Apple Music does support Wav files it doesnt support reading the existing metadata whereas it does support reading it from Aiff. So if using Apple I would agree Aif is a better option than Wav.
While WAV does have very broad support, AIFF does not have as broad support as either WAV or FLAC. FLAC has become the de-facto standard file format for lossless compression, except, of course, in Apple land.
Premiere Pro is a video editing program (from Adobe, another company with walled gardens) and not relevant to this discussion.
Music libraries can be used for so many things, not only for pure listening, not only for roon and the like, i.e. also for example for content creation of different kinds. I wouldn’t like to take care of separate music libraries depending on the concrete purpose. One library for everything 
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WAV and AIFF are not in direct competition with FLAC. They are usually uncompressed which is a disadvantage. And again, it’s still most likely that you can find an app that supports WAV/AIFF and not FLAC than vice versa, across all OSs. If you want to go for the absolutely broadest compatibility you can get, regardless of hardware/software platform (not only PC world) I’d always go for WAV/AIFF.
You don’t need that, you only need to convert the tracks you want to use in each particular project. It’s similar to extracting files from an archive.
Sure, if you really want to create tons of duplicate audio content files just because of the format 
When I started creating my music library I had three major things in my mind.
- Most versatile music file storage and format for multiple purposes. Not only for listening. Not only for roon.
- Standard fail safe and backup capabilities.
- One centralized storage for all important media files. Not only for music but also for images and videos.
That’s it . A dead silent SSD RAID5 NAS (also) running a roon server. I don’t run a single PC for that. Maximum versatility 
Unless you use the vast majority of your audio library for other content, chances are you’ll still save tons of space by compressing it.
For me it’s not so much about the space needed but simply about the number of duplicated content (files) which must be organized.
yes, you can.
red book makes for more relaxed listening; high-res requires more attention. Everything is everywhere all the time.
It’s in the details. For instance, Anouar Brahem. Some of his songs include bass clarinet. You can’t just ‘blow’ the thing, you have to kickstart them. Sort of slap the reed with your tongue, to get it going. That particular sound is much more present in high-res than regular.
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