Cannot play flac without conversion

[marshmallow1304]

Server: Debian Stable
Client: Ubuntu 9.10

I cannot get flacs to play unless I convert them to mp3. The player will load the files, but then they will simply not play. Sometimes it skips to the next track. The client can play local flacs and the server has flac, lame, etc. installed and there are copies in /var/subsonic/transcode, though that shouldn't matter, because the problem occurs only when I'm not trying to transcode.

I'm getting these in /var/subsonic/subsonic_sh.log for each track that fails to play:

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286905056 [btpool0-205] WARN org.mortbay.log - /stream: java.io.IOException: Closed

[3R3]

afaik the jwplayer cant handle flac files, so i transcode when i want to play flacs. it just loads the file, then notices it cant play it and sits there.

is there a specific reason why you dont want to use transcoding?

it doesnt really matter if the client and server can play flacs on their own (assuming you mean the ubuntu and debian and installed media players, because the jwplayer has nothing to do with any codecs installed there.

also anything in subsonic/transcode is only relevant if you use transcoding.

[marshmallow1304]

Oh. That would explain it. I'd like to avoid transcoding in this case as the whole point of having flacs is the superior quality (or does transcoding from flac to mp3 not affect quality in this case?).

[Skywatcher]

You can't use flac upon streaming, I'm afraid. You will have to transcode it. Try doing it to 320Kbps MP3 in order to lose as little quality as possible.