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[Shasta Mike]

I can stream mp3 files with no problem through my Sony Media Player.  When a FLAC song comes up MC23 stops and displays the message "There was a problem controlling your selected DLNA device......"   I have been streaming FLAC successfully with this set-up on MC 22 and 23.  No changes on my end to computer software/hardware except normal Windows updates. Everything seemed to play fine up to a month ago though I have a mixture of mp3 and flac going at any one time so cannot say exactly when this started because some playlists have flac and some don't. Looking over my playlists I can say streaming flac over my DLNA was working at least into the July timeframe.

Flac file plays fine in MC23 player.

Any ideas?

[JimH]

Take a look at the FLAC files that cause problems.  There are some high bitrate FLAC files and even multi-channel FLAC.  The Sony player may not like them. 

[Shasta Mike]

as an experiment, I tried playing Flac from an older playlist I know for sure never stopped playing and those now cause it to stop.   I have the setting on MC to convert when necessary to high mp3.  I don't mind playing around with those settings to get everything to play.  My ears cannot tell the difference between 320 and FLAC.

Should I try Audio Conversion to Always convert?

Answer: Tried it with older FLAC I have listened to a hundred times and it still stops. 

Any other DLNA settings I should look at in MC?

Other ideas?

[AndrewFG]

Try “Always Convert” “PCM 16 bit No Header” (L16)

[Shasta Mike]

My option is just PCM 16 - I don't see No Header (L16).   Are those separate settings somewhere else?  I tried the Always Convert/PCM16 and it still stops when playing a file I have listened to multiple times in the past.

BTW -  I believed pcm 16 was lossless and more data so thought that was more likely to cause a problem than using the high bandwidth mp3 encoder

I tried both Low and Medium MP3 encoders with no success

[AndrewFG]

If you are on MC v23 then PCM 16 L16 No Header is the first option in the list.

This will transcode both FLAC and MP3 to a format that your renderer can play.

[Shasta Mike]

Screenshot of what I am seeing attached.   I don't see No Header (L16) in the label.  Is this where I should be setting this option?

[AndrewFG]

No.

You need to look in Add or Configure DLNA Servers. (Towards the top of your screenshot).

[Shasta Mike]

I would never have figured that on on my own. That works! Problem fixed.  The Sony Media Player froze up after that change and I needed to do an unplug and plug back in to restart.  All good.  Thank-you Andrew!!!