webPlayer no longer playing FLACs

[ssond]

<previously posted to the "General" forum, guessing should have posted here>

FLACs play fine on IOS and Android clients (transcoded into mp3). only configuration change that I can recall, was recent upgrade to 5.3 (build 4569). I'm running server on Windows 7. Don't have any mp3 loaded, though I should probably try that, just for fun.

Webplayer worked recently (and I've been using it for years), not absolutely sure if upgrade is culprit, but I suspect timing is right. This is new problem. I've tried webplayer on multiple machines: OS X 10.11 and 10.10, Win 8, on the Win 7 server... and multiple browsers: chrome, safari, IE same result on all platforms. I've even tried a couple desktop clients (e.g., clementine). and tried sharing via a URL. none of these options work. It does play jukebox mode, strangely.

Webplayer behavior is songs will download but will not play. Looking in the log, no errors, just "playQueueInputStream..." I did have problem after upgrading that lead me to trunc the database tables... it had stopped recognizing new files added to the directory. The rebuild fixed that... but maybe this somehow caused problem?

Any ideas?

[ssond]

yep, mp3s still work in webplayer, so it's just flacs that won't play

[samy4972]

Me too...

[fennesz12]

I have the excact same issue, except I'm running the server on a Raspberry Pi 2:

Version 5.3 (build 4568) – October 24, 2015
Server jetty-6.1.x, java 1.7.0_85, Linux (66.3 MB / 145.0 MB)

Can transcode from FLAC when using app, but not when using web player. I have custom transcoding settings for flac:

Step1: flac --silent --decode --stdout %s
Step2: lame --silent -h -b %b -

[baardog]

Me too .........

[seir]

I rarely play something other than flac and it works for me.

Have you tried the default settings?

name: mp3 default
convert from: flac ogg oga aac m4a wav wma aif aiff ape mpc shn
convert to: mp3
step 1: ffmpeg -i %s -map 0:0 -b:a %bk -v 0 -f mp3 -
step 2:

[ssond]

ok, so I've done some experimenting. On transcoding page, I previously did not have anything in the transcoding section only in the downsample section. Before the upgrade, this didn't seem to be an issue.

I've now added the default transcoding as suggested by seir. which then made it possible to select that new named transcoding config in the player settings for the instance of webplayer that I'm using. And voila, I'm able to play the FLACs...

But with a caveat... this means I'm now transcoding from FLAC to MP3, which is not what I want to happen. I want to play my lossless flacs. So, I'm going to mess around with transcoding to see if I can set it to "transcode" from lossless flac to lossless flac.

[baardog]

That worked yes.