Wigster;683073 Wrote: > ...it appears that all the files which are in the FLAC format appear in > the LMS library appear in the WB DLNA library as PCM...Yes that is normal. > Whitebear actually offers files to client control points in multiple formats, and the client control point chooses whichever format it prefers. For flac files, Whitebear, with its default settings, offers (in order) pcm, native (i.e. flac) and mp3. The pcm is offered first because it is the default "must support" format of all UPnP and DLNA devices, and this therefore ensures compatibility with the maximum number of clients. And as WMP does not natively support flac, it always chooses the pcm offer. This is not a change since earlier versions of WMP/Whitebear/LMS; it was always like this. The only 'bad' consequence is that when you play such a track on WMP, it forces Whitebear to transcode from flac to pcm, which means a higher CPU load on the server, but no loss of audio quality as "lossless is lossless".
Wigster;683073 Wrote: > ..and are unplayable in WMP..I have not encountered any such a problem in my > case. It plays just fine. Also I doubt that the change to LMS v7.7 would have any impact on this since nothing much changed in this area. (Are your flacs 44100Hz or 48000Hz 16bit 2channel, or are they higher bitrate or resolutions? -- It is just possible that Whitebear's transcoders may not be set up to handle all hires, hi rate flac combinations yet. But if so, that can no doubt be tweaked.) Wigster;683073 Wrote: > I have the Shark 007 codecs installed, as well as WMP Tag Plus, which > allows me to play FLAC and other files and keep them in the library of > the WMP as if they were natively supported.Me too! That should also not be > the cause of your problems. (But also it is not the solution -- see below...) Wigster;683073 Wrote: > Previously I could play the FLAC files being served by WB from the SBS > library. Now I cannot, neither to the Squeeezebox not in WMP.I am guessing > that your problem could be that WMP's database of tracks from Whitebear might have got out of sync with the actual tracks in the LMS/SBS library. Perhaps you have recently done an LMS/SBS database rescan? In such a case, WMP may be asking Whitebear/LMS/SBS to play a track ID that is no longer actually in LMS/SBS, and the play may fail. Usually WMP detects such an out of sync case, and will refresh its local database quietly in the background. (You may even find that during such a refresh, there may even be duplicate tracks in WMP; being the old and the new versions of the same track. But once the refresh is completed, the old versions are deleted.) You can force WMP to do a refresh by right clicking on "Library Name (by Whitebear)" and selecting Refresh. In my experience the WMP refresh may take up to 30 minutes for a library having 10'000 tracks... Note also that if LMS/SBS is itself doing a rescan, then communications between WMP/Whitebear/LMS are blocked until that rescan is completed. At which point WMP should detect the change in the Whitebear/LMS database status and automatically initiate its own refresh process. So this chain reaction may take 15 minutes for LMS to rescan its 10'000 tracks followed by the abovementioned 30 minutes for WMP to do its refresh. So it is best to let these things run overnight ;-) Wigster;683073 Wrote: > Moreover, what used to work (and now doesn't) is being able to serve a > FLAC file in the WMP library (i.e. not the WB library) without > transcoding to the Squeezebox. Now attempting to play such files fails > with "Failed to retrieve media information".I doubt that this was ever > possible; even in prior versions. Basically WMP can only stream (Play To) tracks to other media renders (such as Whitebear/LMS) that are in one of WMP's own [b]native[b] formats (e.g. pcm, mp3, wma, wav). The Shark add-ins do allow WMP to play tracks locally within WMP but they do not help WMP to stream those formats to other 3rd party players using the Play To command (don't ask me why). This is a weakness of WMP and/or the Shark add-ins, and is not the fault of Whitebear or LMS. -- AndrewFG Regards, AndrewFG Try out Whitebear. The middleware that joins the two worlds of: 1. UPnP/DLNA media clients and media players, and, 2. Squeezebox Server and Squeeze Players Download it for free here: http://www.whitebear.ch/mediaserver ------------------------------------------------------------------------ AndrewFG's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15838 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=90842 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
