AndrewFG;633926 Wrote: 
> Perfect! Thank you.
> 
> If you are interested to know what is going on: the player makes an
> HTTP HEAD followed by an HTTP GET request for the stream, both having
> an HTTP RANGE header in the request. And Whitebear returns an HTTP 206
> Partial Content response. RANGE requests and Partial responses enable
> server based seeking within the stream. The problem with server based
> seeking is that when transcoding on the fly (especially when doing
> multi step flac-pcm-mp3 trancoding), the server doesn't know exactly
> where it is in the stream, nor can it calculate the full length of the
> stream; and if the data is even one byte off, the resulting output is
> garbage. => I expect this is what is going on here.
> 
> However I think I can fix this. Give me a few days and I will get back
> to you on this thread. In the worst case, the solution might require
> sacrificing server based seek on such transcoded files...
Thanks very much for your help and efforts on my behalf.  

Please don't bust a gut for this.  If I am the only one with this
problem then I leave it to you to decide if it is worth the effort.

I had the same problem with the foobar2000 UpNp facility as well, so it
seems this particular box is a nuisance (to say the least).


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