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Can I get a clear and concise answer as to why Subsonic is not working for me? And could someone explain the steps to troubleshoot. I'm not a programmer by any stretch of the imagination, nor am I willing to put in huge amounts of time trying to get this to work for me...I'd just like it to work!! I am unable to play any FLAC files in any of the Subsonic programs, Android, Sub Air, or the Subsonic web browser. The only noticeable error I get is from the Android player it says "error playing "song name". Prepare failed.: status=0x1(IOException) there are no errors that I can see in SubAir or the browser Subsonic, the music just doesn't play.

Forgot to mention that FLAC files play in other music players.

Can you play MP3 files? or is it just FLAC that does not play?

Alan.

Hi Alan, I can play MP3s, just the flac won't play

Download the transcoding pack here:

http://subsonic.org/pages/transcoding.jsp


And then make sure that under Settings>Players under the players that you use, SubAir, Android, web etc, make sure that the checkbox by flac>mp3 is checked.

I'm on a MAC, as far as I can tell, FLAC encoder is installed in the proper directory. All checkmarks are marked, and settings are set properly.

Could you try to play a flac file from the web browser and then post your log file from the about tab?

[10/12/10 5:16:54 PM PDT] INFO PlaylistInputStream admin listening to "The Grand Bounce/1 The East Wind.flac"
[10/12/10 5:16:54 PM PDT] DEBUG TranscodeInputStream Starting transcoder: [/Library/Application Support/Subsonic/transcode/ffmpeg] [-i] [/Users/sarahmills/Music/Lossless/Gord Downie/The Grand Bounce/1 The East Wind.flac] [-f] [wav] [-]
[10/12/10 5:16:54 PM PDT] DEBUG InputStreamReaderThread (/Library/Application Support/Subsonic/transcode/ffmpeg) FFmpeg version 0.6, Copyright (c) 2000-2010 the FFmpeg developers
[10/12/10 5:16:54 PM PDT] DEBUG TranscodeInputStream Starting transcoder: [/Library/Application Support/Subsonic/transcode/lame] [-b] [128] [-] [-]
[10/12/10 5:16:54 PM PDT] DEBUG InputStreamReaderThread (/Library/Application Support/Subsonic/transcode/ffmpeg) built on Sep 27 2010 19:40:29 with gcc 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5646)
[10/12/10 5:16:54 PM PDT] DEBUG InputStreamReaderThread (/Library/Application Support/Subsonic/transcode/ffmpeg) configuration: --prefix=/opt/local --enable-gpl --enable-postproc --enable-swscale --enable-avfilter --enable-avfilter-lavf --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libvorbis --enable-libtheora --enable-libdirac --enable-libschroedinger --enable-libfaac --enable-libfaad --enable-libxvid --enable-libx264 --enable-libvpx --enable-libspeex --enable-nonfree --mandir=/opt/local/share/man --enable-shared --enable-pthreads --disable-indevs --cc=/usr/bin/gcc-4.2 --arch=x86_64
[10/12/10 5:16:54 PM PDT] DEBUG InputStreamReaderThread (/Library/Application Support/Subsonic/transcode/ffmpeg) libavutil 50.15. 1 / 50.15. 1
[10/12/10 5:16:54 PM PDT] DEBUG InputStreamReaderThread (/Library/Application Support/Subsonic/transcode/ffmpeg) libavcodec 52.72. 2 / 52.72. 2
[10/12/10 5:16:54 PM PDT] DEBUG InputStreamReaderThread (/Library/Application Support/Subsonic/transcode/ffmpeg) libavformat 52.64. 2 / 52.64. 2
[10/12/10 5:16:54 PM PDT] DEBUG InputStreamReaderThread (/Library/Application Support/Subsonic/transcode/ffmpeg) libavdevice 52. 2. 0 / 52. 2. 0
[10/12/10 5:16:54 PM PDT] DEBUG InputStreamReaderThread (/Library/Application Support/Subsonic/transcode/ffmpeg) libavfilter 1.19. 0 / 1.19. 0
[10/12/10 5:16:54 PM PDT] DEBUG InputStreamReaderThread (/Library/Application Support/Subsonic/transcode/ffmpeg) libswscale 1.11. 0 / 1.11. 0
[10/12/10 5:16:54 PM PDT] DEBUG InputStreamReaderThread (/Library/Application Support/Subsonic/transcode/ffmpeg) libpostproc 51. 2. 0 / 51. 2. 0
[10/12/10 5:16:54 PM PDT] DEBUG InputStreamReaderThread (/Library/Application Support/Subsonic/transcode/lame) dyld: Library not loaded: /opt/local/lib/libncurses.5.dylib
[10/12/10 5:16:54 PM PDT] DEBUG InputStreamReaderThread (/Library/Application Support/Subsonic/transcode/lame) Referenced from: /Library/Application Support/Subsonic/transcode/lame
[10/12/10 5:16:54 PM PDT] DEBUG InputStreamReaderThread (/Library/Application Support/Subsonic/transcode/lame) Reason: no suitable image found. Did find:
[10/12/10 5:16:54 PM PDT] DEBUG InputStreamReaderThread (/Library/Application Support/Subsonic/transcode/lame) /opt/local/lib/libncurses.5.dylib: no matching architecture in universal wrapper
[10/12/10 5:16:54 PM PDT] DEBUG InputStreamReaderThread (/Library/Application Support/Subsonic/transcode/lame) /usr/lib/libncurses.5.dylib: no matching architecture in universal wrapper
[10/12/10 5:16:54 PM PDT] DEBUG InputStreamReaderThread (/Library/Application Support/Subsonic/transcode/ffmpeg) Input #0, flac, from '/Users/sarahmills/Music/Lossless/Gord Downie/The Grand Bounce/1 The East Wind.flac':
[10/12/10 5:16:54 PM PDT] DEBUG InputStreamReaderThread (/Library/Application Support/Subsonic/transcode/ffmpeg) Metadata:
[10/12/10 5:16:54 PM PDT] DEBUG InputStreamReaderThread (/Library/Application Support/Subsonic/transcode/ffmpeg) ENCODER : Lavf52.71.0
[10/12/10 5:16:54 PM PDT] DEBUG InputStreamReaderThread (/Library/Application Support/Subsonic/transcode/ffmpeg) Duration: 00:04:28.77, bitrate: 995 kb/s
[10/12/10 5:16:54 PM PDT] DEBUG InputStreamReaderThread (/Library/Application Support/Subsonic/transcode/ffmpeg) Stream #0.0: Audio: flac, 44100 Hz, 2 channels, s16
[10/12/10 5:16:54 PM PDT] DEBUG InputStreamReaderThread (/Library/Application Support/Subsonic/transcode/ffmpeg) Output #0, wav, to 'pipe:':
[10/12/10 5:16:54 PM PDT] DEBUG InputStreamReaderThread (/Library/Application Support/Subsonic/transcode/ffmpeg) Metadata:
[10/12/10 5:16:54 PM PDT] DEBUG InputStreamReaderThread (/Library/Application Support/Subsonic/transcode/ffmpeg) encoder : Lavf52.64.2
[10/12/10 5:16:54 PM PDT] DEBUG InputStreamReaderThread (/Library/Application Support/Subsonic/transcode/ffmpeg) Stream #0.0: Audio: pcm_s16le, 44100 Hz, 2 channels, s16, 1411 kb/s
[10/12/10 5:16:54 PM PDT] DEBUG InputStreamReaderThread (/Library/Application Support/Subsonic/transcode/ffmpeg) Stream mapping:
[10/12/10 5:16:54 PM PDT] DEBUG InputStreamReaderThread (/Library/Application Support/Subsonic/transcode/ffmpeg) Stream #0.0 -> #0.0
[10/12/10 5:16:54 PM PDT] DEBUG InputStreamReaderThread (/Library/Application Support/Subsonic/transcode/ffmpeg) Press [q] to stop encoding
[10/12/10 5:16:54 PM PDT] DEBUG InputStreamReaderThread (/Library/Application Support/Subsonic/transcode/ffmpeg) Multiple frames in a packet from stream 0
[10/12/10 5:16:54 PM PDT] DEBUG InputStreamReaderThread (/Library/Application Support/Subsonic/transcode/ffmpeg) av_interleaved_write_frame(): Operation not permitted
The complete log is saved in /Library/Application Support/Subsonic/subsonic.log.

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Anyone help me out?

What I read from the log is that ffmpeg has problems to convert your flac-file. Do you have this problem with all of your flac-files?

It could be useful to have one of this flac-files to test it manually with ffmpeg. Can you provide one? Perhaps upload it to rapidshare or somewhere else.

I am able to convert flac to MP3 in Tanbee AVCHD converter which uses ffmpeg as an encoder without problems. It's all of my FLAC files that cause problems.

Perhaps Tanbee is using another version of ffmpeg or was compiled with other flags/other versions of libraries (espacially libflaac).
You should try to convert a flac file manually with the ffmpeg provided with subsonic.
Another solution could be to replace the ffmpeg (in subsonic) with the ffmpeg of Tanbee.