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Suddenly unable to play .m4a and .ape (Solved)
bob:
It looks like you are having some kind of network issues to me.
What happens if you put this:
http://192.168.1.177:64739/MCWS/v1/File/GetFile?File=7847495
into a browser?
And I'm wondering why it's using port 64739?
How about posting a screen shot of the Media Network monitor screen from your PC server?
LilyAarseth:
I'm actually relieved that it's very likely not the files themselves.
--- Quote from: bob on February 08, 2021, 01:25:34 pm ---What happens if you put this:
http://192.168.1.177:64739/MCWS/v1/File/GetFile?File=7847495
into a browser?
--- End quote ---
had to provide login but it played in browser just fine
--- Quote from: bob on February 08, 2021, 01:25:34 pm ---And I'm wondering why it's using port 64739?
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I'm guessing it's a non-default one, I think I did it to test a couple years ago and never needed to change it back. It just worked.
--- Quote from: bob on February 08, 2021, 01:25:34 pm ---How about posting a screen shot of the Media Network monitor screen from your PC server?
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Unless I am misunderstanding, I don't know what this is, or never seen it. How do I open this/what do I do to display this?
Edit: I actually tried that browser link method on a .m4a aac file and safari downloaded it as 'GetFile', when I added .m4a extension it played just fine with album art and metadata so the path works outside MC27 on the Mac. Somehow.
Edit2: I tried MC27 .49 on my old intel Mac Mini and I could play a file I can't play on my M1 Mac Mini just fine, I'm on Big Sur 11.2 there. Going to install 11.3 and see if maybe the update did a few days ago could turn out to be behind this. Will update.
Edit3: It plays normally on my Intel Mac Mini Big Sur 11.3 with newest MC27 .62. Then this could perhaps be a Apple Silicon specific network bug maybe?
LilyAarseth:
I did another test, I put an .mp3 album on my other windows pc and tried to stream to my Mac MC27, same result, still get error.
The problem HAS TO BE on the Mac somewhere. I'm in no way qualified to make a specific guess but something something Big Sur 11.3 Network code on M1 Macs must have been updated somehow and the way MC27 fetches the virtual links somehow on non-flac files is now having issues.
I've really tested all the variables and possible causes I can think of, even changed LAN cable, tried using WiFi etc. JRemote which I sideloaded a while back, can play these files just fine on this Mac. Is there a difference in how JRemote streams a file vs MC27? Maybe this could be a clue.
I also tried to convert an AAC file I haven't been able to stream to MC27 on my Mac for almost a week to .flac just to see and yep, it plays without any issue now.
bob:
--- Quote from: LilyAarseth on February 10, 2021, 04:45:39 pm ---I did another test, I put an .mp3 album on my other windows pc and tried to stream to my Mac MC27, same result, still get error.
The problem HAS TO BE on the Mac somewhere. I'm in no way qualified to make a specific guess but something something Big Sur 11.3 Network code on M1 Macs must have been updated somehow and the way MC27 fetches the virtual links somehow on non-flac files is now having issues.
I've really tested all the variables and possible causes I can think of, even changed LAN cable, tried using WiFi etc. JRemote which I sideloaded a while back, can play these files just fine on this Mac. Is there a difference in how JRemote streams a file vs MC27? Maybe this could be a clue.
I also tried to convert an AAC file I haven't been able to stream to MC27 on my Mac for almost a week to .flac just to see and yep, it plays without any issue now.
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There are only a couple of things I can think of that could be different, for networking, if you have multiple connections (like a wired ethernet and wireless) acvtive at the same time on the M1, maybe turn one or the other off and restart MC.
As for JRemote vs a MC client, the most clear difference would be whether or not you have transcoding enabled.
JRemote has that setting per-server in the Settings.
MC as a client has it on the client settings under Media Network.
I assume you are connecting from your Mac to your PC as a Media Server Client (the PC shows up as PC (Library Server) in the Playing From part of the tree).
LilyAarseth:
--- Quote from: bob on February 12, 2021, 08:04:02 am ---There are only a couple of things I can think of that could be different, for networking, if you have multiple connections (like a wired ethernet and wireless) acvtive at the same time on the M1, maybe turn one or the other off and restart MC.
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I've tried this and nothing seems to change now when I tried again.
--- Quote from: bob on February 12, 2021, 08:04:02 am ---As for JRemote vs a MC client, the most clear difference would be whether or not you have transcoding enabled.
JRemote has that setting per-server in the Settings.
MC as a client has it on the client settings under Media Network.
--- End quote ---
Transcoding is off on the W7 MC client side, and also untoggled on JRemote 3.34 on my Mac. Everything is supposed to direct play. But there has to be a difference somehow since the files I can't play in MC27 opens and plays in JRemote o nthe same computer with the same connection. If it's any help some time the waveform loads before it errors, and some times it takes a few seconds before it gives a playback error as well.
--- Quote from: bob on February 12, 2021, 08:04:02 am ---I assume you are connecting from your Mac to your PC as a Media Server Client (the PC shows up as PC (Library Server) in the Playing From part of the tree).
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Yeah I just connect MC on my Mac to my PC automatically each time I start the client.
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