sbb;537377 Wrote: > when I mean native, it's for the MP4 file type. > In my case, ALL ALAC files are considered as MP4s files. > Before that it was sent as quicktime movies (???). > > If I leave the "standard" file type settings, it's always transcoded as > FLAC (and my ALACs are considered as MP4s). > > Before that, I always changed the file types to have things transcoded > to the format I prefered (PCM if transcoding was needed, native if the > format was handled directly by the SB) and it worked fine. And I see no > reason why I should not do so. Why would it be only good to change > something in there to fix something (which anyway would not fix > anything, since only one setting seems to work for ALACs)? > Now, since 7.5 at least, it does not work and ALACs are not handled as > ALACs. > > By the way I'm running the SB server on Mac OS 10.6.3...
MP4 is not a file type (in SBS-speak), it is a container that can hold both AAC and ALAC files. Both of these files have the .m4a extension. The only way to tell what an m4a file is, is to open the container and have a look (which is what SBS does). At the moment there is no 100% working native handling for ALAC and they should be played/streamed as flac via faad/sox (or via faad as pcm if you really prefer that - although I can't imagine why). Both of these options now work in 7.5.1 - at least they do under XP and I'm pretty certain they do for Macs too - there has been a lot of activity recently about this. IF you look at the bottom of convert.conf you will see that native ALAC is commented out at the moment. I imagine that eventually it will be made the default (when it works). ALAC's have always been transcoded to something up until now - and still are for the moment. If your .m4a ALAC files are not being handled via faad, something is strange about your setup... -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... Touch(wired/XP) - TACT 2.2X (Linear PSU) + Good Vibrations S/W - MF Triplethreat(Audiocom full mods) - Linn 5103 - Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KATAN/SEIZMIK 10.5), Townsend Supertweeters, Blue Jeans Digital,Kimber Speaker & Chord Interconnect cables Kitchen Boom, Outdoors: SB Radio ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71623 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
