Lossles streaming to iTunes

[colin]

I'm very impressed with Subsonic. Great software!
I've run into one issue. It's not a huge problem, but something that is consistent in OSX itunes and WinXP. The work around is to use VLC instead.
Most of my music is stored in ALAC format and I'd like to be able to stream this over our network using Subsonic. ALAC transcodes and streams to iTunes in .MP3 format. However, if I turn off transcoding, the stream will not play in iTunes (lossless ALAC stream). The exact same stream plays perfectly in VLC. The leads me to believe that the problem lies with iTunes (latest iTunes 10 on OS X and WinXP).
An example stream looks like this:

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http://10.0.1.1/stream?player=4&pathUtf8Hex=2f566f6c756d65732f4654502f4d757369632f4c65676f666565742f536b6130303143442f3031205061727420312e6d3461&suffix=.m4a

VLC tells me it is 16 bit, 44100 Hz in ALAC format. Subsonic log doesn't help as there is no transcoding.

I would like to know if anyone else has experienced this.

[paulodell]

Hi Colin,
I think the issue may be that iTunes cannot read a stream which is in Apple Lossless format...

File format support
As of Snow Leopard, iTunes 9 (Mac) will play HE-AAC / AAC+ internet streams.

As far as Internet Streams are concerned there is no mention here of Apple Lossless

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITunes

Paul

[colin]

Hi Paul,
Looks like that is indeed the case. I find it odd that iTunes can't play ALAC streams and VLC/Songbird can. Oh well.