SadGamerGeek;330722 Wrote: > To be honest, I don't know what decoder is being used for podcasts.... I > have a standard install of 7.1 on Windows Server 2003 (Windows Home > Server) with the addition of the latest AlienBBC and a lame > executable. > > I guess my point is that I have a pretty vanilla install, so I have > whatever decoder comes with that release, with no changes (unless the > addition of AlienBBC / lame have affected things). If attempting to > play a popular podcast on a stable, live release of SC is resulting in > this issue, I thought it must be worthwhile to look into some way of > preventing the problem, or at least warning the user of the potential > problem. > > I'm not very familiar with Podcast related file formats, but after a > bit more investigation, it looks like m4a files would normally be > expected to contain more than just audio (else mp3 would probably have > been used instead). So, I think it be true to say the following: > > > > - The .m4a format is designed to carry more than just audio. > Therefore, where it is used, it is likely that the file will > contain additional, non-audio data. - SqueezeCenter will happily accept an XML file that links to .m4a > files as acceptable podcasts. - At least some .m4a files with extra information will produce > nothing but a very loud and unpleasant noise when they are played > via Squeezecenter. It therefore seems like the decoder in a > standard build is not configured to strip this information out.> > > > If there is some config file that needs a change to persuade the > decoder to strip out non audio data, I'm happy to do that. It doesn't > help anyone else who might hit this problem though, so I'm thinking it > would be great if we could come up with a way to make this situation > less likely to occur......
I had the same thing happen when I had tried to play an itunes drm file that I had forgot was a drm file. I thought the program couldn't play these and had left some in my library. I was in folder view and had the same thing happen and yes I think it could ruin speakers. So I agree there should be some sort of check or it shouldn't play at all and maybe say invalid file type or something. -- Nonreality -IF THE RULE YOU FOLLOWED BROUGHT YOU TO THIS, OF WHAT USE IS THE RULE.- HTTP://www.last.fm/user/nonreality ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nonreality's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15723 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51201 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
