FatPete wrote: > A-ha! Your comment has made me revisit convert.conf and I've finally > remembered the real reason I needed custom-convert.conf a few years ago. > I had to re-read my original posts and Philippe's comments from 2016 but > it's finally clicked again. > > So it turns out that LMS was always successfully downsampling a 24/96 or > 24/192 file to 48000Hz, but the problem was that the resultant flac file > was still 24 bit. > > If you read Philippe's response to my question a few years back - > https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?103728-Announce-UPnPBridge-integrate-UPnP-DLNA-players-with-LMS-(squeeze2upnp)&p=849692&viewfull=1#post849692 > - he said that his plugin could only truncate 24->16 bits on > WAV/AIF/PCM, but not FLAC. Due to my downsampled LMS file still being > FLAC, the plugin wasn't truncating this to 16 bit and Sonos wouldn't > play it. > > So the only reason I had to use custom-convert.conf was to convert the > 24 bit flac to 16 bit, as uPnPBridge couldn't do it on FLAC files. > > Here's the default LMS setting: > > > Code: -------------------- > > > flc flc transcode * > # FT:{START=--skip=%t}U:{END=--until=%v}D:{RESAMPLE=-r %d} > [flac] -dcs $START$ $END$ -- $FILE$ | [sox] -q -t wav - -t flac -C 0 $RESAMPLE$ - > -------------------- > > > > And here's the custom-convert setting I used to have (note the -b 16 > flag to truncate to 16 bit): > > > Code: -------------------- > > > flc flc * bb:bb:40:ac:0d:2f > # FT:{START=--skip=%t}U:{END=--until=%v}D:{RESAMPLE=-r %d} > [flac] -dcs $START$ $END$ -- $FILE$ | [sox] -q -t wav - -t flac -C 0 *-b 16* $RESAMPLE$ - > -------------------- > > > > Final question now for Philippe... does this mean that uPnPBridge is > now able to truncate flac files to 16 bit? If so, that explains why I > needed to do it myself back in 2016, but not now.
Yes it does, as long as you do not use "thru" mode, you can set sample size to a fixed value (8, 16, 24) and it will resize everything. Then it will either leave it in pcm or re-encode to flac or mp3 LMS 7.7, 7.8 and 7.9 - 5xRadio, 3xBoom, 4xDuet, 1xTouch, 1 SB2. Sonos PLAY:3, PLAY:5, Marantz NR1603, JBL OnBeat, XBoxOne, XBMC, Foobar2000, ShairPortW, JRiver 21, 2xChromecast Audio, Chromecast v1 and v2, , Pi B3, B2, Pi B+, 2xPi A+, Odroid-C1, Odroid-C2, Cubie2, Yamaha WX-010, AppleTV 4, Airport Express, GGMM E5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ philippe_44's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17261 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103728 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
