Cannot play certain songs

[kwatch]

I've a registered Subsonic Server which runs in Vortex box. I have a problem playing some songs. I can connect to the server just fine and am able to load songs into the queue, but it won't play them. It seem like it happens randomly. Does anyone know what's causing this? I'm playing songs from Galaxy Nexus using the Subsonic version for ICS.

[GJ51]

You're a bit sparse on details, but it sounds like transcoding not right or bad source files. It would be helpful if you list the file types and your transcoding settings.

[aadam12]

See if this solves it...
Try renaming the folder or filenames. Not sure why this effects only certain mp3 files. I changed the folder name and used underscores instead of spaces and suddenly everything worked.

All of my mp3s play in Subsonic via web browser but some of them refused to play on the Android app. Once I did the name change, they all played on Android

I am running a registered Subsonic on Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Server
Version 4.6 (build 2585) – December 6, 2011
Server jetty-6.1.x, java 1.6.0_23, Linux (168.9 MB / 348.6 MB)
Android app version 3.3 running on a Motorola DroidX over Verizon 3G.

[paulodell]

Hi,
Try and use the encoder setup below as well as the default setup, the one below will auto encode any mp3 to mp3 again but this seems to fix most of my playback issues.
> Transcoder Addition (subsonic setting) for SubWiji:

> ConvertFrom = mp3

> ConvertTo = mp3

> Step1 = ffmpeg -f mp3 -i %s -ab %bk -v 0 -f mp3 -

please be sure to include everything in bold including the - otherwise the Transcoder setting will not work.

[aadam12]

All of my mp3s are encoded at 128kbps. Occasionally Subsonic Andoid app will not play certain tracks or folders. I recently added an album to my library and it wouldn't play. Odd thing is that it will show the album cover but won't stream. Not sure why the name change solved the problem.

I'll add your encoder settings to my Subsonic server to avoid further problems.

Thanks.

[arjayd]

> Transcoder Addition (subsonic setting) for SubWiji:
> ConvertFrom = mp3

> ConvertTo = mp3

> Step1 = ffmpeg -f mp3 -i %s -ab %bk -v 0 -f mp3 -
please be sure to include everything in bold including the - otherwise the Transcoder setting will not work.

I was having trouble playing back 10% of my mp3s in my browser (tried firefox, IE8 and 9 and Chrome) and after adding the above, mp3's that were not playing are now playing!

Thanks paulodell!

[paulodell]

> Transcoder Addition (subsonic setting) for SubWiji:
> ConvertFrom = mp3

> ConvertTo = mp3

> Step1 = ffmpeg -f mp3 -i %s -ab %bk -v 0 -f mp3 -
please be sure to include everything in bold including the - otherwise the Transcoder setting will not work.

I was having trouble playing back 10% of my mp3s in my browser (tried firefox, IE8 and 9 and Chrome) and after adding the above, mp3's that were not playing are now playing!

Thanks paulodell!

No worries its a great little failsafe