I recently decided to take the risk to upgrade my Terminal Server to Windows Server 2012 R2, to find out that what I worried about, came true. My audio applications have become Lossy via RDP, you can actually hear artifacts when playing audio. In Windows Server 2012, the audio was PERFECT, lossless and as if you are using the audio application on the computer. In fact, this was the BEST thing Microsoft has done with RDP for Windows Server 2012- improving the sound quality DRAMATICALLY via RDP. I know that RDP isn't designed for listening to music or viewing multimedia, but they honestly have changed that in Windows 8 and Server 2012. Seriously, they did.
So my question would be- How do I DISABLE audio compression via terminal services on Windows Server 2012 R2, or do I have to go back to Windows Server 2012 which would honestly be a hassle being that I need to reinstall my terminal server? Otherwise, how do I deactivate my copy of Windows Server 2012 R2 so that I can reuse the license key?
Or if there is no solution, this issue needs to be reported to Microsoft for us to at LEAST disable bandwidth consumption and multimedia streaming compression and restore back the RDP audio capabilities that we had in Windows Server 2012.