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Title: Problems playing ALAC files from HDTracks to the local device
Post by: bob on January 04, 2021, 04:37:39 pm

The new HDTracks downloader produces files that play locally but will not when streamed to a local device (iPhone, etc) with JRemote.
This is because the process HDTracks (and presumably others) use to produce their ALAC files put's the ATOMS in an order that prevents them from being streamed on devices that need the file length for seekability, etc. This is simple to fix by simply reconverting the file from ALAC to ALAC in MC which will re-write the tags in the proper order.
Here's a link to a thread with a description of the issue:
https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,128156.0.html

Title: Re: Problems playing ALAC files from HDTracks to the local device
Post by: wer on January 04, 2021, 05:03:00 pm

That's good detective work. Thank you, Bob.

Title: Re: Problems playing ALAC files from HDTracks to the local device
Post by: bob on January 04, 2021, 05:21:27 pm

Quote from: wer on January 04, 2021, 05:03:00 pm

That's good detective work. Thank you, Bob.

Thanks! I had forgotten that I'd seen it before.
I think that with programs that use FFMpeg for conversion a person might be able to solve the problem at the source if they have access to the command line args sent to FFMpeg by adding:
-movflags faststart

Title: Re: Problems playing ALAC files from HDTracks to the local device
Post by: bob on January 05, 2021, 05:25:14 pm

Quote from: bob on January 04, 2021, 05:21:27 pm

Thanks! I had forgotten that I'd seen it before.
I think that with programs that use FFMpeg for conversion a person might be able to solve the problem at the source if they have access to the command line args sent to FFMpeg by adding:
-movflags faststart

It's been verified this works with EAC and FFMpeg. Someday maybe HDTracks will fix theirs.