garym wrote: > mp3 files play perfectly on my Transporter. No distortion and sound very > good. So I'd look elsewhere for the problem. One thing though, in LMS > > Settings, Player Tab, select Transporter, then AUDIO, and make sure that > bitrate limiting is set to OFF. You might inadvertently be converting > your mp3 files to very low bitrate.
Thanks all for your help! This was my very first post but I'm excited to see the willingness of the community to help out! So, the MP3 horrible sound was fixed this morning (after some forum research) by doing the custom-convert.conf hack in my preference panes folder so now the MP3s are being transcoded as PCM. Still not sure why the MP3 format was so problematic for this player, but having them as PCM completely fixed the terrible "artifacts" and "glitching" I was getting. While they are not lossless (yeah yeah I kow...) they were still high quality 320kbps files and after 15 years of building a library you can imagine I didn't want to have to start entirely from scratch. As for the other issue, LMS has no problem with my built in hard drive on the Mac, just doesn't like the external drive(s) I've tried - I point to that folder and rescan but nothing. I realize this is more complicated than ever in Catalina since permissions are even more challenging and it seems as though LMS simply can't access the drive like it needs to. Anyway, I might look into the raspberry pi thing at some point but at least I can listen to my existing MP3 collection (while I seek to re-import them as FLAC over time). Thanks again all! -Jay ------------------------------------------------------------------------ sacguy231's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=69972 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111878 _______________________________________________ Squeezecenter mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezecenter
