Trouble with minimserver on Pioneer N50

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(09-11-2014 16:55)volkerpf Wrote:  How can I see what blockformat the have? Is there any chance to change it if it is variable? But in this case how can the player plays the tracks with another streamserver? As I wrote mediamonkey works without problems, it shows the albumart and plays the 24/96 tracks.

MediaMonkey isn't using the same FLAC decoder as the Pioneer. It sounds like the MediaMonkey FLAC decoder can handle these files but the Pioneer FLAC decoder can't handle them.

Have you been able to play any other 24/96 FLAC files on the Pioneer using MinimServer? If not, it could be that the Pioneer doesn't support 24/96 FLAC files streamed via UPnP.

The other possibility is that there is something in the XML that MinimServer is sending to the control point that is causing the Pioneer control point or the Pioneer renderer to crash. Is the control point a separate app running on an iPhone or iPad, or is the control point built-in to the renderer device?

You can check the FLAC blocksize using the metaflac tool (see this page for download links). To run the tool, use this command:

Code:

metaflac --list --block-number=0 your-file-name.flac

The output will look like this:

METADATA block #0
type: 0 (STREAMINFO)
is last: false
length: 34
minimum blocksize: 4096 samples
maximum blocksize: 4096 samples
minimum framesize: 16 bytes
maximum framesize: 12953 bytes
sample_rate: 44100 Hz
channels: 2
bits-per-sample: 16
total samples: 9961308
MD5 signature: 89ce62cdf83815dcd058f345acb24563

If the minimum blocksize and maximum blocksize are different, this is a variable blocksize FLAC file.