Converting Flac files to PCM/Wav format on your PC rather than at your player .

[bencat]

Can LMS be set to convert all falc files into PCM / WAV format for sending to your player ? Currently I have a Sony Blu Ray player in the other room which can access the LMS server as it is DNLA compatiable but Sony do not support Flac so althought it can see all the music files it will not play them as it comes up with an error message that this is a bad or unsupported file. Is there any way to get the LMS using the lap top that is running the server to convert the files into straight PCM / WAV files that the Sony will be able to play ?

[gharris999]

Can LMS be set to convert all falc files into PCM / WAV format for sending to your player ? Currently I have a Sony Blu Ray player in the other room which can access the LMS server as it is DNLA compatiable but Sony do not support Flac so althought it can see all the music files it will not play them as it comes up with an error message that this is a bad or unsupported file. Is there any way to get the LMS using the lap top that is running the server to convert the files into straight PCM / WAV files that the Sony will be able to play ?

Not to encourage corss posting, but you might have better luck getting an answer to this by posting in the beta forum with a subject line that flags it as a DLNA question.

[bobkoure]

If you want the server to convert FLAC files to WAV (encapsulated PCM) before it's streamed off to all players you can do this in the WebUI settings panel. Go to 'file types', and change FLAC from 'native' to WAV.
You can also do this for an individual player by adding a line in convert.conf.
Here's a section ralphy wrote for me to convert high-bitrate flac to cd-bitrate flac for just one player

flc flc squeezeslave *
# FT:{START=--skip=%t}U:{END=--until=%v}
[sox] -q -t flac $FILE$ -t flac -C 0 - -b 16 -r 44100

so you'd put the name of your single target player where I have squeezeslave, and you'd need to figure out the [sox] line for what you want to do. I think you might actually get the all-players version of this if you make the changes in the web UI.

Sorry, this is at the edge of what I know; I'd have let someone else answer but that doesn't seem to be happening - and maybe I misunderstood your question, anyway...

[bencat]

Thanks for trying to answer but looking in the WebUI alongside Flac in file type the only options I have are native or disabled there is no Wav option. Sorry with regards to the second part I have not idea at all were to put that script or even what it may or may not be doing. Given that it is probably best that I do not try to change anyhting as I may well do some damage .

[AndrewFG]

Can LMS be set to convert all falc files into PCM / WAV format for sending to your player ? Currently I have a Sony Blu Ray player in the other room which can access the LMS server as it is DNLA compatiable but Sony do not support Flac so althought it can see all the music files it will not play them as it comes up with an error message that this is a bad or unsupported file. Is there any way to get the LMS using the lap top that is running the server to convert the files into straight PCM / WAV files that the Sony will be able to play ?

The Logitech built in UPnP server plugin does not have the capability to serve files in PCM format. I suggest to disable the LMS UPnP plugin, and instead install Whitebear on your server PC. Whitebear has the capability to transcode all supported LMS music file types (including Flac) to PCM.

[andyg]

The Logitech built in UPnP server plugin does not have the capability to serve files in PCM format. I suggest to disable the LMS UPnP plugin, and instead install Whitebear on your server PC. Whitebear has the capability to transcode all supported LMS music file types (including Flac) to PCM.

Yes it does...

[JJZolx]

Yes it does...

Good Lord! An Andy G sighting!!!

How have you been? Are you still working for Logitech?

[AndrewFG]

Yes it does...

Yes, well, sort of...

You offer first a native res, then an mp3 res, and finally a so called L16 res. There are several problems with this:

- some renderers will choke if you offer more than one res
- some renderers only look at the first res
- therefore, since L16 is the default (must offer) res, then it must be offered first
- the so called L16 res that you offer is not actually a proper L16; what you offer is an aif, and there are the following problems with that:
- an aif has a riff header which can choke some players (and in any case it sounds bad...)
- the aif res is offerred with an .aif extension; some renderers read the audio type from the extension
- (to be honest I did not check this last one,) but I can imagine that on serving the aif the Content-Type is audio/aiff and not audio/L16..

[andyg]

Yes, well, sort of...

You offer first a native res, then an mp3 res, and finally a so called L16 res. There are several problems with this:

- some renderers will choke if you offer more than one res
- some renderers only look at the first res
- therefore, since L16 is the default (must offer) res, then it must be offered first
- the so called L16 res that you offer is not actually a proper L16; what you offer is an aif, and there are the following problems with that:
- an aif has a riff header which can choke some players (and in any case it sounds bad...)
- the aif res is offerred with an .aif extension; some renderers read the audio type from the extension
- (to be honest I did not check this last one,) but I can imagine that on serving the aif the Content-Type is audio/aiff and not audio/L16..

Fair enough, but to sum all your points up, all renderers are buggy as hell. I just followed the spec for the most part.