m4a Transcoding

[PharetH]

Hi guys. I've been running subsonic for about 3-4 months now, and decided to try to get the transcoding to work.

Here's some info about the server. I'm using Ubuntu 9.04 x64 server, with Subsonic 3.9. I have read a bunch of the other transcoding treads but didn't really follow what was going on (linux newbie here). I have been able to get flac working, but have not had any luck with m4a and wav transcoding.

Here are some pics of my settings.



The flac, lame, and faad links all have the same file permissions and point to the same place.

When I start play a .m4a file, it buffers, but never starts playing. I checked the Subsonic log and all I found was:

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[3/18/10 7:26:35 PM CDT]  INFOTranscodingDaoCreated transcoding m4a > mp3
[3/18/10 7:26:51 PM CDT] INFOPlaylistInputStreamphareth listening to "You Run Away (Single) (2010)/01 You Run Away.m4a"

and this only happened once. Most of the time it just says:

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[3/18/10 7:42:40 PM CDT]     INFO   PlaylistInputStream   phareth listening to "You Run Away (Single) (2010)/01 You Run Away.m4a"

without any transcoding starting.
This is what I get when I try to play a .wav file.

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[3/18/10 7:55:00 PM CDT]     DEBUG   TranscodeInputStream   Starting transcoder: [/var/subsonic/transcode/lame] [-b] [128] [-S] [/home/music/Movie Sounds/Austin Powers/alotta.wav] [-]
[3/18/10 7:55:00 PM CDT]    DEBUG   InputStreamReaderThread   (/var/subsonic/transcode/lame) fatal error: can't update LAME-tag frame!

I welcome any help/suggestions and if you need any more information I'll try and provide it.

[trondis23]

I had problems with FAAD crashing on Windows XP. I tried the Nero decoder instead, and that worked.

[PharetH]

Thanks for the response, but this is Linux not Windows. Anybody else have something I can try?

[3R3]

i transcode m4a files with ffmpeg using this little "any2mp3" script as described here: http://forum.subsonic.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1550&highlight=

woks fine, seeking and everithing. in step 1 in the transcode tab, enter "any2mp3 %s %b".

[PharetH]

Well today it just randomly started working. Thanks for the suggestions though. Still not sure why there was such a delay for the transcoding to start working, but if I remember right, the same thing happened with lame and flac. Oh well.