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Suddenly unable to play .m4a and .ape (Solved)
LilyAarseth:
--- Quote from: bob on February 15, 2021, 11:17:37 am ---Just for reference, how long is your current cross-fade track transition length?
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It was already at gapless, 99% sure I didn't change it but it's set to Gapless now in any case.
--- Quote from: bob on February 15, 2021, 11:17:37 am ---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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Whoa, now it doesn't want to play at all, tried several flac files after the m4a ones just to confirm, all contained in the log. Turned off conversion and flac plays just fine again. Maybe the issue/bug is somewhere in how MC is handling non-flac files?
bob:
--- Quote from: LilyAarseth on February 15, 2021, 11:33:50 am ---It was already at gapless, 99% sure I didn't change it but it's set to Gapless now in any case.
Whoa, now it doesn't want to play at all, tried several flac files after the m4a ones just to confirm, all contained in the log. Turned off conversion and flac plays just fine again. Maybe the issue/bug is somewhere in how MC is handling non-flac files?
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The log said that it was set to cross fade, it appeared the length of the cross fade was affecting the audio output.
As for the conversion, that works perfectly for me.
Try opening this in Safari. Report back results. Thanks.
http://192.168.1.177:64739/MCWS/v1/File/GetFile?File=14655470&conversion=0&playback=2
LilyAarseth:
--- Quote from: bob on February 15, 2021, 11:55:32 am ---The log said that it was set to cross fade, it appeared the length of the cross fade was affecting the audio output.
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I see, well it's set to gapless now in any case, thanks!
--- Quote from: bob on February 15, 2021, 11:55:32 am ---Try opening this in Safari. Report back results. Thanks.
http://192.168.1.177:64739/MCWS/v1/File/GetFile?File=14655470&conversion=0&playback=2
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This works perfectly fine, has it's own player.
bob:
Yes, that was one of the .m4a files transcoded to wav playing in the apple player embedded in safari.
So what that's showing is that the server is working properly.
On the Mac you are playing to a USB DAC?
In MC's Audio Device settings you hardware buffering should be set to default. If integer mode and/or exclusive modes are on, turn them off and see if that makes a difference.
Other than that, I'm kind of at the end of what I can figure out here. You might try disabling the firewall temporarily to see if that makes any difference.
LilyAarseth:
--- Quote from: bob on February 15, 2021, 01:22:33 pm ---So what that's showing is that the server is working properly.
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This is a relief at least.
--- Quote from: bob on February 15, 2021, 01:22:33 pm ---On the Mac you are playing to a USB DAC?
In MC's Audio Device settings you hardware buffering should be set to default. If integer mode and/or exclusive modes are on, turn them off and see if that makes a difference.
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I recently got a NAD M12 Preamp/DAC and it has Asynchronous USB, would that have anything to do with it? It worked for nearly a week before these issues started happening though so I didn't think of that. I turned off integer mode and exclusive a while back since MC kept glitching out "coreaudiod" so I had to forcefully restart the process in activity monitor and restart MC to get audio to work again. like 1/5 times where MC set a sample rate not 44.1 this happened so I got fed up with it and just set to downsample everything to 44.1 and disabling integer and exclusive. I didn't report it because I wasn't sure if this was a MC specific issue or just premature drivers on apple's side acting out. I don't know, might be worth mentioning maybe.
Software buffer is set to 100ms and hardware is set to hardware default. Firewall was actually turned off for some reason, turned it on again and same thing.
--- Quote from: bob on February 15, 2021, 01:22:33 pm ---Other than that, I'm kind of at the end of what I can figure out here. You might try disabling the firewall temporarily to see if that makes any difference.
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I'm fearing this outcome, is there any way to completely wipe user settings and caches from MC27 without removing the activation?
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