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M4A transcoding failing

PostPosted: Thu Dec 09, 2010 6:02 pm
by tumtum1088
I can't seem to get my web player or my android app to play M4A files. I'm running the most recent versions on both. They load up album art and song length but stay at 0 when i hit play. On the android app it gives an "prepare failed.: status 0x1(IO Exception "status error. Any help would be appreciated. - Thanks , Tumtum1088

PostPosted: Thu Dec 09, 2010 7:11 pm
by stozher
One step with a fixed bit rate (all tags transferred to MP3)

Step 1: ffmpeg -i %s -f mp3 -ar 44100 -ab 320k -ac 2 -map_meta_data 0:0 -
Step 2: none (blank)

or two step transcoding (above is a better choice)

Step 1: ffmpeg -i %s -f wav -ar 44100 -ac 2 -
Step 2: lame --preset cbr %b -S --tt %t --ta %a --tl %l - -

See also http://forum.subsonic.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=17540#17540

PP: Mark check boxes right from Step 3 and check players settings (log as admin to see all players).

Working again

PostPosted: Wed Dec 15, 2010 6:33 pm
by TJungus
Stozher, thank you for this information! I now have access to listen to ALL my music!

PostPosted: Tue Jan 04, 2011 3:35 pm
by sonicdivx
@stozher

Thanks for the post, was haviing the same issue upon upgrading to newest beta.

PostPosted: Tue Jan 04, 2011 5:04 pm
by stozher

PostPosted: Thu Jan 06, 2011 4:27 pm
by sonicdivx
I am still getting the Prepare failed: status=0x1 (IOException) error. regardle of method I use.

do I need to restart server or do something else (increase server memory setting, maybe)

[EDIT] this is on an Android phone and occurs on both Wi-fi and Data network

thanks