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ncameron
Jun 07, 2016Aspirant
LMS NT & M4A Files
I have a new ReadyNAS 314 running OS 6.2. I installed the proferred LMS NT App and am currently running it with a software SqueezePlay player, as my hardware players are elsewhere at present. It wor...
- Jul 20, 2016
That bloody well worked!
I can't thank you enough. My listening life is transformed.
Shouldn't this be built into the general relased code?
Neil
StephenB
Jun 07, 2016Guru - Experienced User
Are these really AAC, or are they apple lossless?
If you change the extension to mp4, does that help?
ncameron
Jun 07, 2016Aspirant
Thay are actuallty Apple Lossless M4A files.
I tried changing the file extention to MP4, but that did not help.
- StephenBJun 07, 2016Guru - Experienced User
ncameron wrote:
Thay are actuallty Apple Lossless M4A files.
So that must be the issue. Do you have a FLAC file you can try as a test?
I don't use LMS or squeezebox, but I have heard that some devices don't have native ALAC support (but do have FLAC).
- ncameronJun 07, 2016Aspirant
When you say "that must be the issue" - does that mean, LMS NT, SqueezePlay or the absence of LAME?
- StephenBJun 07, 2016Guru - Experienced User
ncameron wrote:
When you say "that must be the issue" - does that mean, LMS NT, SqueezePlay or the absence of LAME?
The issue being the system doesn't support ALAC - not sure which component(s). Initially you said AAC m4a, which would have pointed me towards a file extension problem or perhaps file permissions (since AAC is the standard audio compression in mp4).
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