Jacob Grydholt Jensen wrote: > 2010/1/26 Jacob Grydholt Jensen <[email protected]>: >> 2010/1/25 Dave Ansell <[email protected]> >>> Both 7.4.1 and 7.4.2 are working for me - nightly build from 21 Dec 2009. >>> What files format is your music in? >>> They seem to keep messing with the server transcodings. I can't get .aac to >>> work at the moment but everything else is OK. >>> If you have WMA files you need mplayer and the PlayWMA plugin installed. >>> For FlAC you need FLAC and LAME installed. >> Upgrading to the latest nightly build of 7.4.2 (Version: 7.4.2 - >> r29879 @ Mon Jan 25 03:01:55 PST 2010) did the trick! >> >> BTW I was using the FLAC-format with both flac and lame installed. I >> tried switching to mp3 on 7.4.1 and still no sound. > > OK, it might not have been the server upgrade which made the thing > tick again. I now think it was restarting the squeezeboxserver process > that solved it. I had assumed that the problem was in the client's > end. But when I plugged in my SPDIF coax-cable the sound output > stopped again until I restarted the squeezeboxserver process! I don't > know much about the inside workings of squeezeboxserver nor mclient, > but this has me baffled. > > Conclusion: I would probably have succeeded in having sound on 7.4.1 > if I had restarted the squeezeboxserver on the backend server. Don't > want to downgrade squeezecenter to try this out though. > > /grydholt >
Sorry, didn't see this until today. MClient uses older internet protocols to communicate with SqueezeCenter. As such it looks like an older SqueezeBox to SqueezeCenter. Deep inside the PERL script in SqueezeCenter there are definitions for each type of client. SqueezeCenter is most likely setup "out of the box" to reformat everything it will hand out to MClient as an mp3 for compatibility sake. It's been years, but that's how I remember it. We could re-vamp the communications between MClient and SqueezeCenter, but that would mean junking a lot of code and starting from scratch WRT handing off data between the server and client. After that, MClient would could look like one of the newer SqueezeBoxes which can handle FLAC. It's ether this or changing the definitions of what the client will accept (which would be wayyyy easier, but probably not very popular with our user base). If your FLAC files do not work, check if your server has the proper software to convert FLAC to mp3. Because this is a compression feature and because you are doing this in real time, your server needs to be powerful enough to handle the task. For example, I doubt a SLUG (a popular (re-purposed) network HDD server) could do it. -hope that helps, Rick ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com _______________________________________________ Mvpmc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mvpmc-users mvpmc wiki: http://mvpmc.wikispaces.com/
