I’m not disputing anything you have said but I’m unsure of one thing you stated because I went another route with the $199 audiophile SSD. The downloadable audiophile was only recently made available and was not available in beta testing 2025.
It is my understanding that PG Music had decided to keep the WMA files in the audiophile version. The reason I understood was that they do take less space than Flac files, and someone might want a ‘light’ installation on one computer’s internal drive.
After many questions from us about what to do to remove the WAV files no longer needed, and/or remove the WMA files if no longer wanted, I don’t know what was sent to you. Could you look inside one of your new RealTracks folders and see if you have both Flac and WMA, or just Flac, and let us know?