Phil Leigh;536874 Wrote: > It is frustrating but you need to understand that there are (at least) 2 > seperate problems, both of which only impact certain people based on > THEIR specific combination of platform and music files. As such these > bugs can be very hard to prevent (and quite hard to fix). > > They certainly weren't hit during beta AFAIK. > > However, Andy has fixed the faad memory exception bug that was > occasionally causing faad to crash on alac playback. The "Can't open > file..." problem is different... > > I've been trying to help with this but I can never recreate this error > on XP SP3 with 7.6. I've used example files sent by people with the > problem and they all work fine on my system. > > At one point it looked like the alac files were possibly being > misinterpreted as AAC (or MPEG-4 as SBS refers to them) and hence faad > was not being invoked - the native AAC decoder was being invoked > instead. > > This won't work, hence the advice to check your file types to ensure > that MPEG-4 is set to stream as FLAC via faad (same as "Apple > Lossless". > > If you turn on player.source logging you can see exactly what SBS is > trying to do when you play a track... > > This is NOT the default. > > However, this is only a workaraound (if I'm correct about the alac > files being wrongly identified as AAC). > > There may also be a problem with the tags generated via iTunes, but I > can't comment on that...I think some other folks have been looking at > that.
This seems to work. Finally able to play something. I will enable the logging you suggested in the BETA forum and post results when I get a chance. Maybe it will reveal the core problem. Thx. -- AudioFrog ------------------------------------------------------------------------ AudioFrog's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9568 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77511 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
