Advantages of MinimStreamer

[gnomus]

(23-04-2014 14:07)simoncn Wrote:  ...
The solution is for you to use FLAC compression, or a seek table, or both. You could try using dBpoweramp to convert the largest file you have into compressed format and see whether the Sonos is able to seek to the end of the track. If not, you would need to add a seek table using the following command:

metaflac --add-seekpoint=10s <filename>

Simon

Thanks again for your time on this. You have, of course, gone way past what little I know about all of this. I have no idea what a 'seek table' is, and, even though you have given me a command, I have no idea where I am supposed to put that command. Is that something I do at the time of ripping, or if I choose to batch convert?

I am also a little paranoid about doing anything that might lose the considerable amount of work that I have done so far. I think that I will carry on ripping everything as I have been doing (I'm about half-way through). I then intend to back everything up to another location. That might be the best time to consider converting everything to compressed FLAC (and adding 'seek tables').

I am off to hear some Linn streamers tomorrow - that might well change everything again.