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[bob]

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I discovered I have at least 2 recently purchased ALAC albums that JRiver plays but JRemote refuses with a streaming error.

Bob - please PM me if there is a way I can email / Dropbox/ whatever a track to you for investigation.

Ian

That was a tricky one.
The new HDTracksDownloader is putting the MDAT atom before the MOOV atom which has the size details and is at the end of the new HDTracksDownloader ALAC files.
This causes the decoder in JRemote to barf, it can't handle that case.
So, either HDTracks should fix that OR you can re-encode the files back to ALAC on MC to fix them.

[HaWi]

Is there any advantage to using FLAC instead of ALAC? I figured they are both lossless, so I am getting everything in ALAC, if possible, or otherwise convert in MC.

[bob]

Is there any advantage to using FLAC instead of ALAC? I figured they are both lossless, so I am getting everything in ALAC, if possible, or otherwise convert in MC.

I think FLAC is somewhat smaller with standard compression. I use ALAC mostly because I occasionally put some of the tracks on my iPhone so it's more handy for me.
It's pretty simple in MC to re-encode them back to ALAC.

 

[bob]

All kudos for tracking that down. I don’t think I have the clout or credibility to tell HDTracks that they shouldn’t put the MOOV after the MDAT so I guess I will be doing some re-encoding. At least I can still keep everything in ALAC though.

Alternatively does the old JRiver-written HDTracks downloader still work?

Thank you for the update.

I don't know if you can still use the old downloader.
I can however point you to the post on the issue at the support board from whence the plugin comes.
It is going to be an issue for HDTracks in a lot of situations like this. The MOOV atom really shouldn't be at the end.
https://www.un4seen.com/forum/?topic=10910.msg132657#msg132657