m4a files on LMS Ubuntu Server 12.04

[mcc28x]

Hi,

This is driving me nuts!

How do I play .m4a files running logitechmediaserver on Ubuntu Server 12.04? I had this working fine on an 11.10 install of Ubuntu (I don't remember doing anything special to get it working?). Nothing is recorded in the server.log when I try to play (player is squeezebox classic), I presume I need to change a log setting to get more info?

Any help really appreciated.

Thanks

Mark

[bpa]

If you are using a 64 bit kernel - have you installed the ia32-libs package ?

[mcc28x]

If you are using a 64 bit kernel - have you installed the ia32-libs package ?

Whoop!

That worked! The downside feels like I've installed alot of ***stuff***


Cheers

[gharris999]

Whoop!

That worked! The downside feels like I've installed alot of ***stuff***


Cheers

No kidding. Rather than looking for 32bit packages and installing only what's necessary, I think ia32-libs installs 32bit versions of EVERYTHING you've got installed.

[bpa]

The LMS version of faad and flac have some patches which means if you use the Ubuntu versions you will not be able to play internet radio and I think streams/files will stop after about 3hrs20mins.

[gharris999]

The LMS version of faad and flac have some patches which means if you use the Ubuntu versions you will not be able to play internet radio and I think streams/files will stop after about 3hrs20mins.

Are you sure that's still true? My LMS is playing:

http://yp.shoutcast.com/sbin/tunein-....pls?id=252916

..at this moment with the ubuntu 64bit versions of faad & flac via symbolic links in /Bin/i386-linux.

True, I've been playing it for only a few minutes, not 3+ hours.

BUT, trying a 5 hour m4b file, I now see you're totally right about (at least faad) needing the LMS patches. Using the ubuntu version of faad, I wasn't able to FF within a track at all. With the LMS 32bit version, I can jump to any point in that long, long track.

Mea culpa, and thanks for setting the record straight.

Any idea why the faad patches never made it into AudioCoding's source? Any idea why faad's source hasn't been updated since 2009?

[tricia]

Whoop!

That worked! The downside feels like I've installed alot of ***stuff***

Cheers

I just did the following and now live BBC Radio plays for me!


root@moya:/usr/local/bin# sudo apt-get install flac:i386
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
gcc-4.6-base:i386 libc6:i386 libflac8:i386 libgcc1:i386 libogg0:i386
Suggested packages:
glibc-doc:i386 locales:i386
The following packages will be REMOVED
flac
The following NEW packages will be installed
flac:i386 gcc-4.6-base:i386 libc6:i386 libflac8:i386 libgcc1:i386
libogg0:i386
0 upgraded, 6 newly installed, 1 to remove and 24 not upgraded.
Need to get 4,186 kB of archives.
After this operation, 10.1 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y

[bpa]

I just did the following and now live BBC Radio plays for me!

I think standard flac which you installed does not have some patches which means a live radio stream could stop after about 3hr 20mins.

[tricia]

I think standard flac which you installed does not have some patches which means a live radio stream could stop after about 3hr 20mins.

Well, my Ubuntu decided to update itself yesterday and it removed the :i386 packages and some libc-bin stuff etc and now I am back to square one. Live BBC radio won't play. BUT, oddly, it did play just the once, and then would not play again. I cannot re-install the flac:i386 packages now as there are too many broken dependencies and it complains like hell and says if you want to uninstall this then type this sentence saying I know what I am doing.

I tried to install ia32-libs but it says it depends on ia32-libs-multiarch which is unavailable (I use my own repository mirror btw)

Anyway, it's a no go.

Any more ideas how to get live BBC radio playing on my squeezebox on 64-bit Ubuntu 12.04 anyone?

Thanks

[tricia]

Any more ideas how to get live BBC radio playing on my squeezebox on 64-bit Ubuntu 12.04 anyone?

Are there plans to fix the 64-bit version of flac so that that just works so that we don't have install ia32-libs?

Any other suggestions? Can I download the 32-bit flac binary from somewhere or will that require shared libraries that I don't have on my 64-bit system?

Thanks in advance!