Can not play flacs

[equanimity]

Hi,

Firstly, thanks again for MusicCabinet. I have been using it again today, and I am truly impressed.

However I seem to have made some elementary error in my setup: I am on OSX, and using Safari as a web player.

In the Subsonic/transcode directory, I have: flac 1.2.1 and LAME 64bits version 3.99.5 There were conflicting instructions out there, but I copied the binaries, rather than linking to the originals.

However, whenever I try to play any flac, I get the track listed as "now playing" in last fm, the players "loading" bar changes color to indicate the song has loaded / buffered, but the play time stays at zero, and there is no sound. This seems to happen whether or not I have set a maximum bitrate for the stream in settings/players or not.

There is no mention of anything in the log except the [INFO] line "PlaylistInputStream equanimity listening to whatever.flac" until I pick a new song. Apologies for the basic question. I am sure it is just incorrect configuration on my part.

[shadow.8]

Are you converting from flac to mp3? It seems like it isn't converting at all... IIRC the web player doesn't support flac so unless it's converted, it won't play. If you are trying to convert it there is probably a wrong setting in your transcoder settings. See here for what you should use.

[equanimity]

Thank you shadow.8, those instructions are just what I needed. A valid ffmpeg in the transcode folder fixed it.

I thought that MC no longer had the settings that are referred to there, but actually I was just using a non-admin account that did not show those preferences!

Thanks - eq

[shadow.8]

Ah, I see.

Glad I could help.