If you send raw WAV to squeezebox with 24 bit from any source (native, downsampled, upsampled or decoded (HDCD)) it will not work.

But as you are trying with WMA/HDCD you can set a different rule to not convert to WAV for that format.

Any downsampled file will probably get reencoded to FLAC by default.

Note: you can reencode with no compression. Which is what some conversions do. There is not much sense in spending mips to compress and then decompress something that's going to be thrown away in a few minutes.

What compression level have you been using on FLAC from dBpoweramp?

- Fiddler (IMHO)

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