Hi... I've been using SlimServer on Windows XP for awhile now, but this is my first forum post...so please excuse if this is a dumb newbie question.
I've recently discovered a problem with some of the music files in my collection. It seems there are several filename/length limitations with the current Quicktime implementation in the mov123 decoder. Because of this, I have several .m4a tracks that won't stream through SlimServer (v 6.21). For example, a track named "08 - Stevie Ray Vaughn & Double Trouble - Chitlins Con Carne.m4a" can't be opened by mov123 (Error -37 in Quicktime), and just gets an "end of file" error in SlimServer when trying to play it. But the same track renamed to "08 - Stevie Ray Vaughn - Chitlins Con Carne.m4a" Has no problems. Think this is because of a filename charcter limitation with mov123 that I've seen reference to in other forums on the Internet. (The file with the original name plays fine in Winamp, BTW). So question is, rather than having to do a "search and destroy" to rename all bad files in my 6000+ tracks music library, is there any way to use something besides mov123 to decode .m4a in SlimServer (like say the in_mp3 decoder that Winamp uses for aac)? If not, can anybody think of another approach to avoid renaming files, like say scripting with redirection to provide input to mov123 that's more to his liking? It's been years since I tried to code any Perl, so while it would be a "fun" exercise, I'd rather not go the route of trying to somehow hack the SlimServer code. Thanks, Tim -- jtbse ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jtbse's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22971 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
