Viragored wrote: > It looks like I've bumped into the same problem. Someone has given me > some tracks they bought in flac format from HDTracks. My Duet stumbles > over them, with the music coming out slower than it should and sounding > as if the musicians are stuttering! The tracks play OK in Windows Media > Player on a fast PC, served by my old PC running VortexBox and Logitech > Media Server. But they don't play properly on the Duet, served from the > same source. Looks like the old Dell PC can't handle the transcoding on > the fly. > > The bit rate shown in the file's properties are around 3500kbps, with an > audio sample rate of 96kHz. And the files are huge, 1.5gb for the 13 > tracks on a 62-minute CD. So I guess I need to transcode and save files > that won't need transcoding during playback. So could I please get some > practical help with the steps to do that. The tools I currently have > are Media Monkey Gold (MMG), and flicflac (FF). > > What I've tried so far: Used both MMG and FF to convert to wav, and to > mp3 320k. Then I've converted the wav back to flac using both FF and > MMG. And I'm no further forward, the files still won't play properly on > the Duet - and they are still huge. > > I've googled quite a bit and one suggestion that I've not tried is to > burn a CD from these files, then rip it back in with Exact Audio Copy. > That makes me think there must be a way to do the same thing but without > using a physical CD. > > Can somebody provide practical tips on what to do next?
duet will only play 24/48 files and these are 24/96 or 24/192. That said, LMS should automatically transcode the files on the fly to reduce to 24/48. A couple of thoughts: 1. Have you changed any of the file type settings in LMS > Settings > Advanced > file types from default (e.g., to have FLAC decoded on the server vs the player, etc.). 2. You say they work on windows media server, served by LMS on your vortexbox but do not work when coming from same LMS to duet. I'm a bit confused. Windows Media Server is not a software SB player so I'm not sure how you are feeding it with LMS. Are you using the DLNA part of LMS to serve the files to WMS? Or do you simply mean you play the files on WMS by pointing WMS to the actual files that are stored on your Vortexbox (but LMS is not actually involved)? I might experiment with installing LMS temporarily on a regular laptop/desktop and put these files in a small library. Then play to the duet from this temporary LMS. Do they play correctly then? Finally, some have reported odd issues with HDtrack files that were solved when converted from FLAC to new FLAC files. But it seems you've tried this (although not sure where the mp3 conversion plays into this....you should convert from flac to flac. dbpoweramp or foobar2000 would certainly work for this. but the MM software should too....not sure how it handles hires files. *Location 1:* VortexBox Appliance 4TB (2.2) > LMS 7.7.2 > Transporter, Touch, Boom, Radio w/Battery (all ethernet) *Location 2:* VBA 3TB (2.2) > LMS 7.7.2 > Touch > Benchmark DAC I, Boom, Radio w/Battery (all ethernet except Radio) *Office:* Win7(64) > LMS 7.8 > SqueezePlay *Spares:* VBA 4TB, SB3, Touch (3), Radio (3), CONTROLLER *Controllers:* iPhone4S (iPeng), iPad2 (iPengHD & SqueezePad), CONTROLLER, or SqueezePlay 7.7 on Win7(64) laptop Ripping (FLAC) - dbpoweramp, Tagging - mp3tag, Spotify ------------------------------------------------------------------------ garym's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17325 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98769 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
