diego;638507 Wrote: > Hi there everybody! > > So, there is news. Potentially good news. I upgraded everything (newest > Beta on server, newest Software on Touch), on the server it did a clean > install... the Server forgot all my settings and most annoyingly, my > favorites. > > However, the issue of tracks getting cut remained unchanged. I started > to repeatedly listen to the same tracks and figured out, that a couple > of my tracks get cut, but always at the same moment. In on track, for > instance on track: 1. Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No.1 / Lang Lang , > Chicago Symphony Orchestra / Daniel Barenboim, original FLAC as > downloaded from HDTracks: After 17 minutes 31 seconds. > > The same track played over Network (stored on the server in the > basement), played on my Notebook upstairs, on Winamp did NOT get cut. > > However, I re-encoded the FLAC, using LameXP (FLAC input and decoding, > FLAC encoding at lowest compression setting, gives almost the same file > size). > > Result: No interruption anymore! > > So I don't actually know, WHO is to blame: The Flac does play without > problem on a computer, and it gets interrupted on the Squeezebox. So > it's the squeezebox. But the same track encoded at home does play fine. > So is it HDTracks that are to blame for their encoding? It doesn't > actually matter too much to me, as long as there IS a solution... A bit > annoying however, if I have to re-encode all those purchased FLAC > files. > > Anyone else sharing this issue, who has tried re-encoding the FLACS? > > BTW: I use Klaus aka soundcheck's mods and I am pretty happy that the > problem has nothing to do with those nice sound enhancements (this is > just an off-topic remark, please don't reply on that, I know that not > everybody shares the same experiences regarding those mods).
Oh yeah - you are having the problem ONLY with HDTracks? - this is a well-known problem with HDTracks encoding of FLAC files. They do something really weird to their FLAC files... -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... Touch(wired/XP) - Audiolense 3.3/2.0+INGUZ DRC - MF M1 DAC - Linn 5103 - full Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KATAN/SEIZMIK 10.5), Pekin Tuner, Townsend Supertweeters, Blue Jeans Belden Digital,Kimber 8TC Speaker & Chord Signature Plus Interconnect cables Stax4070+SRM7/II phones Kitchen Boom, Outdoors: SB Radio, Harmony One remote for everything. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80474 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
