WMA Lossless [Solved]

[spanrofr]

My Windows Media Audio 10 Professional 440 kbps, 96 kHz, 2 channel 24 bit 1-pass CBR files work fine in subsonic but my Windows Media Audio 9.2 Lossless
VBR Quality 100, 44 kHz, 2 channel 16 bit 1-pass VBR files do not play. Does anyone have the correct codec for the 9.2? Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.

[mjones73]

It looks like version 4.6 went to ffmpeg for transcoding and it doesn't work with WMA Lossless, I did the following to restore transcoding of WMA Lossless for now.

- Make sure you have wmadec.exe and lame.exe in your transcode directory (Should be under your SubSonic folder, mine is C:\subsonic\transcode for example.) You should still have them if you upgraded from version 4.5, otherwise you should be able to find them online.
- Go to Settings, Transcoding
- Remove wma from Convert From box under the mp3 audio entry
- Under Add Transcoding add a name (wma for example), add wma to the Convert From box, mp3 to the Convert To box, "wmadec -b 16 %s -" (without the quotes) to Step 1 and "lame -b %b -r - -" (without the quotes) to Step 2.
- Select Save and enjoy.

[BKKKPewsey]

Thank you "mjones73"
If the OP can let us know if that worked for him I will mark this thread solved.

[bighifi]

did not work for me, any other ideas?

[pinn]

this worked is tottaly amazing thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[citynomad]

Worked for me, as well. Thanks mjones!

[sheekamoo]

Where can I download the wmadec.exe file?

[bethesdaadk]

Worked for me as well. I kept a picture snip of how transcoding used to work in 3.8 because this has happened before. The original arguments for wma lossless in 3.8 no longer work, but yours do.

It's frustrating to wonder whether upgrading the product is going to break functionality on something as basic as transcoding audio files. I guess someone will tell me that I shouldn't have chosen wma lossless. But yet, I did.

[muiz]

Does not work for me in 4.6 , any other ideas?

[Galaedriel]

I can't find wmadec.exe anywhere. Need a little help here...

[jdubba]

The wmadec.exe transcoder can be found over on the subsonic sourceforge dl area. Its in the windows transcoders zip under the transcoders area at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/subsonic/files/transcoding/1.1/

However this doesn't fix the problem if you're playing in jukebox mode, which still tries to use ffmpeg. I couldn't figure out how to stop it from using ffmpeg when in jukebox mode, so I downloaded the latest ffmpeg and copied it to the /subsonic/transcoders folder. The WMA lossless problem has apparently been fixed. If you do this, you won't need the wmadec.exe transcoder or settings.

I found the latest windows builds of ffmpeg at:
http://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/builds/

The build date on the one that worked for me was 2012-03-07.

Hope this helps...

[BKKKPewsey]

Thank you

[Galaedriel]

Sorted with new ffmpeg. Lovely! Thanx.

[mjones73]

Thanks for the ffmpeg tip, was trying to figure out why RC wasn't working..