Platform: Ubuntu 9.10 -- 64 Bit (!) Longtime 2xSB3 owner, had a very nice, stable system running 7.3.3 for a long time after having run nightly builds until I had a setup that just worked. Avoided the 7.4 upgrade until a primary HD crash forced my hand (music luckily was on another -- backed up -- hard drive).
Once I made the move to 7.4.x, I had lots of issues with playback of ALAC files (lots of "Problem: Can't open file for:" errors). I use a couple of different rippers (Max, Rip, and iTunes) and manage my library through iTunes to my network share on my server. I also moved to the 64 bit version of Ubuntu during the server upgrade. So there were lots of moving parts and possible issues. Had some free time this weekend to finally dig into it, as I'm really tired of not being able to access my music. Moved from "stable" to "testing" to "unstable" Debian feeds, am now working with 7.6. What I discovered was: 1) The i386-linux binaries that are installed are not 64-bit. They will not run on Ubuntu-64. 2) The new scanner has issues with some of my iTunes ripped ALAC files and IDs them as Quicktime Movies. 3) The new scanner IDs all m4a files (AAC and ALAC) as MP4. What I did was: 1) downloaded and built and replaced the shipping faad binary using the patched source at http://svn.slimdevices.com/repos/slim/7.6/trunk/vendor/faad2/ 2) for some reason the -b and -s switches will not work with this build of faad. added the following entries to custom-convert.conf mp4 pcm * * # FT:{START=-j %s}U:{END=-e %u} [faad] -q -w -f 2 $START$ $END$ $FILE$ mov pcm * * # FT:{START=-j %s}U:{END=-e %u} [faad] -q -w -f 2 $START$ $END$ $FILE$ I'm now playing both ALAC and AAC files through faad. and I'm happy, as I can listen to all of my music. Hope this helps, as I've see a lot of "Problem: Can't open file for:" and ALAC related issues on the forums lately. -- IceFusion ------------------------------------------------------------------------ IceFusion's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15255 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77930 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
