Hi Everyone I have a quality issue which I hope someone might be able to help with on my otherwise fantastic Squeezebox 2.
I will try my best to describe the symptoms. When I listen to quiet music at reasonable amplification either through my Squeezebox 2 or SoftSqueeze, I hear background digital noise. This can only be descirbed as a wind or sea like sound. The music still plays, but quiet pieces sound distorted, whereas louder parts sound acceptable. In short, I guess I could say that I seem to have a reduced signal to noise ratio. In comparison, if I listen to the same AAC file through iTunes, or decode the file manually to WAV using faad (faad -o outfile.wav infile.m4a) and play that, then the quality is perfect. I get the same problem if I set the player settings with or without rate limiting (i.e. transcoding via lame, or sending the signal raw). My set-up is as follows: Server: Fedora Core 4 running the following software: # rpm -qa slimserver slimserver-6.2.0-1 # rpm -qa faad2 faad2-2.0-0.lvn.5.4 # rpm -qa lame lame-3.96.1-0.lvn.1.4 # uname -a Linux slimlinux 2.6.14-1.1637_FC4 #1 Wed Nov 9 18:19:37 EST 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux My audio files are unprotected AAC (all ripped CDs through iTunes) I have added the following lines to /usr/local/slimserver/convert.conf: # Transcoding for AAC files. mov mp3 * * [faad] -w -f 2 $FILE$ | [lame] --resample 44100 --silent -q $QUALITY$ -b $BITRATE$ -r - - mov aif * * [faad] -w -f 2 $FILE$ I have also commented out the following entry: #mov aif * * # [mov123] $FILE$ I have searched as far as I can on this forum and Google but simply cannot find an answer. If anyone else is seeing the same problem, or even knows the answer, then I would really appreciate the help! Thanks. -- slimnick ------------------------------------------------------------------------ slimnick's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2333 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18219 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
