Does the gen 5 audio support playing FLAC files

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  1. Wiyosaya

    Wiyosaya Member

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    I’m about to get a 2024 Prime and I’m wondering whether the audio playback supports FLAC files. If it does, I’ve got a collection of CDs that I will rip.
    I’ve looked for a list of supported file types but I haven’t found one. Does such a list exist?
    Thanks
     
    #1 Wiyosaya, Dec 15, 2023
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    FLAC is supported, apparently.

    There's a list in the multimedia manual. A quick summary of the Europe manual is:

    Audio formats: MP3, WMA, AAC, WAV (LPCM), FLAC, ALAC, Ogg Vorbis
    Video formats: H.264 or WMV9 in MPEG-4, AVI or WMV containers with MP3/AAC/WMA9.2 audio
     
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    There are detailed specs in the appendix of the US Multimedia manual. For all supported formats (including FLAC ), supported sampling frequencies and quantization bit sizes are listed.
     
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    Thanks.

    It sounds like its safe for me to begin ripping my CDs to flac.

    Without having the car, yet, I don't have access to a manual. Its too bad that the list of supported file types is, apparently, not available elsewhere.

    Thanks again.
     
    #4 Wiyosaya, Dec 16, 2023
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    If you're in the US, try techinfo.toyota.com.

    Owners' manuals are even outside the paywall.
     
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    Try converting one CD, see if works?
     
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