Enoch Light: I converted all of my CDs to m4a and have bought very little from iTunes, so I haven't had a DRM issue. How are you playing your m4a's? Through Lame?
BPA: Thanks again. I had to take a mental break from this exasperating problem for a week or two (my wife is ready to forbid me from ever upgrading to a new op system again), although I miss my music terribly! Here are the results of the latest tests. WMA files: With wmadec/flac and wmadec both enabled and wmadec/lame and Windows Media (built-in) both disabled, WMA files played instantaneously (with only the built-in enabled, WMA files played instantaneously). All files m4a, WMA, mp3 - play fine using SoftSqueeze. I verified that neither SoftSqueeze nor QuickTime were running in the system tray. I opened QuickTime, tried to play a .m4a file, and got either very long delays or complete program crashes. It really appears to me that my issue is directly related to issues with QuickTime running on Vista. As many users have been reporting in the Vista threads, they are having problems opening the web interface with 6.5.0 or 6.5.1 or 6.5.2. I started having those same problems, and no matter what I did, I could no longer get the web interface to work properly. So, I reinstalled 6.3.1, which was always the version that has worked best for me in XP. Using 6.3.1, I followed your instructions re mplayer and custom-convert.conf. First, I got a banner when I started mplayer from a cmd prompt. However, after closing and restarting slimserver and then checking File Types, mov123 was still listed for FLAC, wav, etc. I next opened the custom-convert.conf file and noted that you had listed the executable file as mplayer. However, the executable file is actually mplayerrc1. So, I next went into WordPad and changed mplayer to mplayerrc1 in custom-convert.conf. I closed and restarted SlimServer, and mov123 was still the default for FLAC, wav, etc., and I didnt have an option to select mplayerrc1. So next, deleted the custom-convert.conf file and opened convert.conf via WordPad. I simply changed the mov123 reference in FLAC to mplayerrc1. I restarted my p.c., reopened slimserver, check File Types, and mplayerrc1 was now in fact listed as the appropriate decoder. I found what happened next to be very interesting: When I tried to play a m4a song by selecting the m4a song from the Squeezeboxs remote in my living room, the song began playing instantaneously on my p.c. in my den by mplayer. However, the song did not play on the Squeezebox; after about 20 seconds the Squeezebox simply emited a very high pitched whine (I was able to duplicate this scenario multiple times). Although the Squeezebox didnt work, I found this encouraging, as selecting a song from my remote did in fact cause an m4a file to play instantaneously, albeit not in the right place! Next, I noticed, though, that the text for mov flc in the custom-convert.conf file is quite a bit different than the applicable text in convert.conf. Therefore, thinking that it wasnt as simple as changing [mov123] to [mplayerrc1] in convert.conf, I replaced the mov flc text in convert.conf in its entirety with the mov flc text in custom-convert.conf. End result: Nothing played at all on the Squeezebox or the p.c.. Mplayer didnt start, nothing happened. Nevertheless, Im still encouraged. Do you have any thoughts or advice? Do you think it could be a simple matter of ensuring the mov flc code from mplayerrc1 is correct? -- Matt Shelton ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Matt Shelton's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4983 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34181
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