Aha - we may have a winner. I was looking through the Linux forum and found this post:
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18828 This talks about using mplayer instead of FAAD2 to decode AAC files. So, I've installed mplayer (using 'yum install mplayer' on my Fedora Core 4 machine) and edited my convert.conf file to: mov wav * * [mplayer] -novideo -ao pcm:file=/dev/fd/4 $FILE$ 4>&1 1>/dev/null And the result is what I've been looking for: a nice pure sound with no audible disortion. One small problem though, there is a 'pop' at the start of each track, but I'll play with the mplayer options and see if I can't figure that out. So, it seems that faad2 is not the decoder of choice for Linux systems - mplayer is. Ideally the Slimserver Wiki needs to be updated with this, since it currently recommends using faad2 - definitely not the right choice. Nick. -- slimnick ------------------------------------------------------------------------ slimnick's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2333 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18219 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
