Possible Bug

[zeroth]

I've been moving my collection from mp3 to Flac and I've noticed that items I'm playing in a playlist will stop and not play the next song. The play button looks like it's playing but it just sits there. I'm seeing this all the time.
The odd thing is some tracks in the same album may do this while others don't.

Just wanted to report it may be an issue. I'll be happy to provide any details needed to help look into this.
Below are the audio properties of the latest flac that are not automatically playing the next song.

Artist The Eagles
Title Life In The Fast Lane
Album Greatest Hits 2014 HD Sound Special Edition
Track 12
Disc
Genre Rock
Year 2014
Rating
Composer
Size 58.05 MB (26% Compressed)
Original Size 78.41 MB
Length 4 minutes 45 seconds
Channels 2 (stereo)
Sample Rate 48 KHz;
Sample Size 24 bit
Bit Rate 2,304 kbps (DVD)
Encoder FLAC reference libFLAC 1.2.1 20070917
Encoder Settings
Audio Quality Perfect (Lossless)
Contains CRC, ID Tag [Vorbis Comments]
Channel Mapping
File 12. Life In The Fast Lane
Type VLC media file (.flac) [.flac]

[zeroth]

I've did some more testing on albums I found where I can repeat the issue. I completely re ripped the cd to flac and replaced the existing album. Issue stays the same. The only resolution currently is to use only mp3's.

(edit: seems resolved. I found that if I removed flac from transcoding setttings per this post, https://sourceforge.net/p/subsonic/bugs/175/, the freezing between songs seems resolved. I'm still testing.

[acroyear]

as i've written on one of these dozens of posts on this issue (yes, this is perhaps getting ignored because we've seen the stories of this a lot lately), the issue seems to be that transcoding flac to mp3 isn't creating a fixed file, but rather a raw stream. because of this, and the nature of the mp3 specification, there's no actual 'duration' for the file. It isn't sending an 'audio ended' type of event to the html5 audio tag. (I couldn't say if the ffmpeg app is terminating or not as I don't flac so I haven't run into this). So the audio tag never gets an 'ended' event, and therefore never fires the internal action to tell the overall player iframe to move onto the next song in the queue.

In SubFire I worked around this (having had issues with older versions of Chromium, particularly on Android and FireTV) by tracking the seconds against the duration given by the <song> entry from the API and forcing the player to go onto the next song. However, that's my app and I can't tell the web GUI to do that.

maybe some alternate flags to ffmpeg might resolve it, but as I don't have the problem, I can't really help much more.

[zeroth]

The issue is resolved for me. I've tested many files.