Re: [slim] Apple Lossless - AIFF ... gotchas?
Dos anyone know why this happened? What changed in the new releases? The songs all played perfectly before upgrading my OS and to 7.4.1. -- rdb001 rdb001's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13097 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=69800 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Apple Lossless - AIFF ... gotchas?
There don't seem to be any bugs open at the moment that match your issue. What happens when you disable native playback of AIFF and thereby force transcoding to FLAC? Have you tried the 7.4.2 nightly? There could have been a fix that had the side-effect of fixing your issue. -- dsdreamer -- Dreamer, easy in the chair that really fits you... dsdreamer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12588 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=69800 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Apple Lossless - AIFF ... gotchas?
I seem to be having trouble with all AIFF files now that I switched to 7.4.1 on Snow Leopard. Issues range from hiss/noise on the last two seconds of tracks to no music/all noise on other tracks. The server is set to AIFF native. -- rdb001 rdb001's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13097 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=69800 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Apple Lossless - AIFF ... gotchas?
Audacity will convert ALAC to AIFF. It's free. It's also a very good audio file editor. And cross-platform, incidentally. http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ On 15 Oct 2009, at 22:47, USAudio wrote: USAudio;472723 Wrote: I've been running the conversion process from Apple Lossless to AIFF using iTunes for awhile now and keep running into a (-208) Unknown Conversion error for certain songs. I don't see anything obvious about the songs that would cause the error. Anyone else experience this or have any idea on how to resolve it? I guess I'll just have to re-rip those songs directly to AIFF from CD again ... Well, it sometimes took multiple tries but I was finally able to re- rip the problem songs into AIFF. There may be some kind of obscure iTunes bug there but I appear to be back in business with my entire iTunes library now in AIFF. Thanks to all for your responses. -- USAudio USAudio's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php? userid=8580 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=69800 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Apple Lossless - AIFF ... gotchas?
This is my approach, too, for the same reason coupled with my perfect contentment with iTunes' tagging and cataloguing, which therefore disqualifies FLAC. AIFF retains tags, as you suggest. I've found no issues apart from disc space, unless you intend to use a wireless network and your signal is less than perfect, in which case you may find you get a significant amount of dropping out depending on how bad the signal is, and possibly how quick the machine on which you're running SqueezeCenter is. You may find that you need to use either bridging (Airport Extreme to Airport Express or equivalents; then ethernet connection from Airport Express to SB - incredibly easy to set up) or else ethernet throughout. I am now using the latter using ethernet over mains (Homeplug) which works superbly even on very ancient and chaotic mains wiring. iPeng control is still via Airport. The disc space issue matters only when using iPods. I've recently got round that by making a separate library specifically for iPod use, consisting only of ALAC and iTunes+ AAC. It seems to work. Squeezecenter uses the main library and now therefore shows only AIFF and a few ALAC files I haven't got round to converting yet. Hope that helps. On 15 Oct 2009, at 04:05, USAudio wrote: I miss not being able to seek (FWD, REW) on a track with my SB3 so I plan on converting my entire collection in iTunes (OSX) from Apple Lossless to AIFF. When completed I plan on deleting all the Apple Lossless versions. Before I do so, are there any gotchas I may not be aware of? - Files are larger but I have plenty of disk space. - AIFF retains tags just like Apple Lossless, correct? - Other issues? I spent many many hours ripping a good portion of my collection from CD ... am I going to regret this or should I just go for it?! Any comments or words of wisdom appreciated. Thanks! -- USAudio USAudio's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php? userid=8580 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=69800 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Apple Lossless - AIFF ... gotchas?
Wouldn't the default SC setup have it transcoding AIFF to FLAC? That would fix the network bandwidth issues. -- radish 'HELP ME RAISE MONEY FOR CHILDREN'S CANCER RESEARCH!' (HTTP://WWW.ADAMREEVE.COM/24IN24/) http://www.last.fm/user/polymeric radish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=77 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=69800 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Apple Lossless - AIFF ... gotchas?
Has that changed? I thought SC used to play AIFF as native. Either way, there's no reason not to use AIFF with Squeezebox apart from disc space (and perhaps a bit of processing power), and a good many reasons to use it if one is running a Mac. On 15 Oct 2009, at 14:46, radish wrote: Wouldn't the default SC setup have it transcoding AIFF to FLAC? That would fix the network bandwidth issues. -- radish 'HELP ME RAISE MONEY FOR CHILDREN'S CANCER RESEARCH!' (HTTP://WWW.ADAMREEVE.COM/24IN24/) http://www.last.fm/user/polymeric radish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=77 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=69800 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Apple Lossless - AIFF ... gotchas?
cunobeli...@mac.com;472591 Wrote: Has that changed? I thought SC used to play AIFF as native. It _can_ play AIFF native, but my understanding is that all lossless formats other than FLAC are transcoded to FLAC by default (can be disabled) to save bandwidth. Might be wrong about AIFF specifically, I don't have any of that file type. -- radish 'HELP ME RAISE MONEY FOR CHILDREN'S CANCER RESEARCH!' (HTTP://WWW.ADAMREEVE.COM/24IN24/) http://www.last.fm/user/polymeric radish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=77 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=69800 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Apple Lossless - AIFF ... gotchas?
cunobeli...@mac.com;472482 Wrote: ... I've found no issues apart from disc space, unless you intend to use a wireless network and your signal is less than perfect, in which case you may find you get a significant amount of dropping out depending on how bad the signal is, and possibly how quick the machine on which you're running SqueezeCenter is. ... Thanks for the feedback! I've tested converting and playing some individual AIFF tracks on my SB3 and had no dropout issues, so I believe I'm fine there. Also, this Mac Mini's sole purpose in life is to be a SC Music Server so that also should not prove to be a problem either. Sounds like I'm good to go ... now to start the lengthy conversion process ... -- USAudio USAudio's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8580 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=69800 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Apple Lossless - AIFF ... gotchas?
I've been running the conversion process from Apple Lossless to AIFF using iTunes for awhile now and keep running into a (-208) Unknown Conversion error for certain songs. I don't see anything obvious about the songs that would cause the error. Anyone else experience this or have any idea on how to resolve it? I guess I'll just have to re-rip those songs directly to AIFF from CD again ... -- USAudio USAudio's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8580 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=69800 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Apple Lossless - AIFF ... gotchas?
Are there no other converters you could try? I know on Windows there are various apps which will do the job. -- radish 'HELP ME RAISE MONEY FOR CHILDREN'S CANCER RESEARCH!' (HTTP://WWW.ADAMREEVE.COM/24IN24/) http://www.last.fm/user/polymeric radish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=77 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=69800 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Apple Lossless - AIFF ... gotchas?
USAudio;472723 Wrote: I've been running the conversion process from Apple Lossless to AIFF using iTunes for awhile now and keep running into a (-208) Unknown Conversion error for certain songs. I don't see anything obvious about the songs that would cause the error. Anyone else experience this or have any idea on how to resolve it? I guess I'll just have to re-rip those songs directly to AIFF from CD again ... Well, it sometimes took multiple tries but I was finally able to re-rip the problem songs into AIFF. There may be some kind of obscure iTunes bug there but I appear to be back in business with my entire iTunes library now in AIFF. Thanks to all for your responses. -- USAudio USAudio's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8580 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=69800 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Apple Lossless - AIFF ... gotchas?
radish;472620 Wrote: It _can_ play AIFF native, but my understanding is that all lossless formats other than FLAC are transcoded to FLAC by default (can be disabled) to save bandwidth. Might be wrong about AIFF specifically, I don't have any of that file type. I seem to remember the inclusion of apple lossless as native in the last couple of releases. P -- pski real stereo (can almost weld) pski's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15574 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=69800 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Apple Lossless - AIFF ... gotchas?
pski;472838 Wrote: I seem to remember the inclusion of apple lossless as native in the last couple of releases. P Only on SqueezePlay based players, and event then I don't think it's done yet. -- radish 'HELP ME RAISE MONEY FOR CHILDREN'S CANCER RESEARCH!' (HTTP://WWW.ADAMREEVE.COM/24IN24/) http://www.last.fm/user/polymeric radish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=77 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=69800 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Apple Lossless - AIFF ... gotchas?
I miss not being able to seek (FWD, REW) on a track with my SB3 so I plan on converting my entire collection in iTunes (OSX) from Apple Lossless to AIFF. When completed I plan on deleting all the Apple Lossless versions. Before I do so, are there any gotchas I may not be aware of? - Files are larger but I have plenty of disk space. - AIFF retains tags just like Apple Lossless, correct? - Other issues? I spent many many hours ripping a good portion of my collection from CD ... am I going to regret this or should I just go for it?! Any comments or words of wisdom appreciated. Thanks! -- USAudio USAudio's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8580 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=69800 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
