pippin wrote: > FLAC stuttering should not be but WMA is not supported by iPeng, > indeed. > What was the player that supports it? > > WMA on iOS is difficult. MS wants a minimum annual fee of 20K$ for the > codec and the free codecs that are around all have incompatible licenses > to the App Store, so it's hard. > > As toby and ralphy already said: converting to FLAC on the server should > work, but I would NOT use it with bitrate limiting on the QNAP, I doubt > it has the power for that. > > FLAC should work fine, though, unless you set a bitrate limit. FLAC > stuttering should always mean your WiFi connection is not stable (I have > one router where I can't get any higher bitrate streams to work, TV > doesn't work either; it's a brand new router, these things are not > completely uncommon). > > Could you give me more details about the FLAC files that stutter and > about the setup?
Hi Pippin. The player that supports wma is the 8Player, and I got the free lite version to try from the i-Tunes store. The 8Player plays FLAC without stuttering at all, even over 3G. AND it has just played a WMA track (VBR approx. 304 KBPS) over 3G (wireless off on my iPhone) - just tested it again to make sure! As for the flac file detail, I'll give just one example. Because WMA Lossless wouldn't play from my QNAP server to my SB receiver in the lounge, I converted several hundred WMAL files to FLAC with dbpoweramp. I see a bitrate on this Led Zep track of 941 KBPS (VBR) - sample rate 44.1 kHZ, 16 bit. I have set bitrate limiting to 128 KBPS on the iPhone player with small buffer. Weirdly I just double-checked this again, and the song ran perfectly for about 30 secs before stuttering unlistenably. I quit iPeng, then restarted with the same track 'loaded'. This time it stuttered awfully from the start and barely played at all. Settings as described above. These FLACS are playing from my music folder on a QNAP 212. The LMS package (v7.7.2) on the QNAP was installed from the QPKG centre, so it was packaged for the QNAP if not an official, fully QNAP-supported iteration. At least these FLACS play fine through the hi-fi downstairs. Hope you can shed some light on this for me! Cheers, Malc. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ blowers's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=32176 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=85502 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
