Skipping [Disc 1]

[DavidHB]

(18-07-2016 18:50)krutsch Wrote:  I transcoded a few of these from AIFF back to FLAC and that seemed to fix that issue; I am wondering if part of the issue was AIFF tag reading.

Or AIFF tag writing. Simon works very hard to keep MinimServer standards-compliant, which means that on occasion it gets fussy about errors that less fastidious apps will tolerate.

AIFF and FLAC use very different tagging formats. In my experience, the Vorbis comments used in FLAC give less trouble than the ID3 tags in AIFF.

Sometimes simply opening a problem file in a good tag editor, such as MP3Tag, and then re-saving the tags, can fix compatibility problems. It might be worth doing a simple experiment along those lines.

David

[krutsch]

(18-07-2016 19:56)DavidHB Wrote:  Or AIFF tag writing. Simon works very hard to keep MinimServer standards-compliant, which means that on occasion it gets fussy about errors that less fastidious apps will tolerate.

AIFF and FLAC use very different tagging formats. In my experience, the Vorbis comments used in FLAC give less trouble than the ID3 tags in AIFF.

Sometimes simply opening a problem file in a good tag editor, such as MP3Tag, and then re-saving the tags, can fix compatibility problems. It might be worth doing a simple experiment along those lines.

David

I am familiar with tag formats. I tried that, of course, using Metadactics, XLD and even Tag. The files report as being healthy in Sample Manger and they playback in other media players.

I've just decided that AIFF is too hard to support and that FLAC will just work everywhere.

I've convinced myself that there will be no audible difference on my renderer - during playback of even high-res FLAC files, there is negligible CPU utilization and I think it might be preferable to save 1/2 of the data being dragged over the wireless network, as opposed to shaving a percentage or two of CPU utilization.

Converting my library now... hopefully will be finished by morning :-)

[robt]

Don't forget you can use the stream.transcode command of flac:wav if your network and renderer can cope. At least you know your playing an uncompressed stream.....

[krutsch]

I've played around, quite a bit, with transcoding with ffmpeg and Sox. Works, but I was having gapless playback issues; have since streamlined my storage and networking (much faster), so I may take another run at this.

[DavidHB]

(18-07-2016 20:14)krutsch Wrote:  I've just decided that AIFF is too hard to support and that FLAC will just work everywhere.

When I started out in the streaming game, that was pretty much my decision, though it wasn't particularly well informed at the time. Everything I have read subsequently suggests that I managed to jump the right way on that one. I also have an instinctive preference for the more 'open' formats. Given that, sadly, commercial organisations cannot be relied on to use their intellectual property in an ethical manner, open source can be a useful counter to some of the excesses.

(18-07-2016 20:14)krutsch Wrote:  I've convinced myself that there will be no audible difference on my renderer - during playback of even high-res FLAC files, there is negligible CPU utilization and I think it might be preferable to save 1/2 of the data being dragged over the wireless network, as opposed to shaving a percentage or two of CPU utilization.

Wireless capacity is certainly an issue; I only stream over Ethernet. In my circumstances, transcoding from FLAC to, say, WAV24 does seem to give some sound quality benefit (perhaps because it helps to lower the noise floor in the player).

David

[simoncn]

(18-07-2016 02:23)krutsch Wrote:  But, with both the [Disc N] album name suffix and the disc number tags in the tracks, everything works: I can enqueue the whole set and it plays back as expected and I also see the >> Disc N separators in the album listing.

I don't know why this would make a difference. It shouldn't make any difference to how MinimServer handles the files.

If this happens again, you could try enabling debug logging while the skipping is happening. The debug log might provide some clues.