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Suddenly unable to play .m4a and .ape (Solved)
bob:
--- Quote from: LilyAarseth on February 12, 2021, 09:11:46 am ---I've tried this and nothing seems to change now when I tried again.
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.
Yeah I just connect MC on my Mac to my PC automatically each time I start the client.
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The only setting that matters to JRemote with regards to transcoding is the one in JRemote itself (just for reference).
Try turning off the "auto sync with server option", restart the Mac client MC and see if that changes anything.
Are you doing anything on the Mac client to run MC on startup?
I assume it works if you turn on audio conversion on the Mac to always convert?
LilyAarseth:
--- Quote from: bob on February 15, 2021, 09:31:39 am ---Try turning off the "auto sync with server option", restart the Mac client MC and see if that changes anything.
Are you doing anything on the Mac client to run MC on startup?
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Didn't make any difference sadly. And no, I prefer to manually start MC after I boot the Mac.
--- Quote from: bob on February 15, 2021, 09:31:39 am ---I assume it works if you turn on audio conversion on the Mac to always convert?
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It hanged for a bit and then gave the same error as always.
bob:
I really don't get this at all.
Please start a new log on the Mac client (reset log)
Start to play
When it fails, go to logging, hit Report Problem and attach the entire zipped log file on your desktop to your reply to this message. Thanks.
LilyAarseth:
Just to have checked, I tried connecting to my W7 MC both with local ip and access key to see if it made any difference, even tried to connect through a wifi hotspot to see if it was anything on my local network, still no luck.
Anyways, here's a clean log from an .m4a file that failed to play. I reset the log before trying to play the file and saved right after.
I really, REALLY appreciate your help so far and I'm sorry that I am sort of wasting your time with such an obscure bug/issue.
Edit: added another one after a .flac also failed when the track was changing. This doesn't happen more often than a few times a day.
Edit2: I can play these files locally through mc on a test library on my mac, just for reference. It's not the decoding itself.
bob:
Ok, a couple of tests.
Go the the Mac audio settings.
Set track transitions to gapless.
Seek: standard
Stop: immediate
Pause: immediate
That will likely fix the flac error. Just for reference, how long is your current cross-fade track transition length?
As for the m4a, would you try it with the Mac MC client settings (in Options->Media Network->Client Options->Audio Conversion) set to Always Convert Audio and PCM16 or PCM24 bit.
If that fails, please do that short log procedure for that. Thanks.
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