Flac always restart from 00:00

[gian]

Hello All,
I converted a radio podcast to Flac with VLC, it is a single trak of 4 hours.
It plays nicely with Rhythmbox, and I am able to move around the playback bar as I want.
However, after I moved the file to the MyMusic folder, it will play from my Squeezeboxes, but each time I pause, it will restart from the beginning, and I am no more able to move around the playback bar.
Am I missing something?
what am I doing wrong?
Thanks for your advice,
-Gian

[bpa]

Are the sample size and sample rate in the flac file compatible with the player ?
Does the flac header of the file have the proper file duration ?

[gian]

Does the flac header of the file have the proper file duration ?

I think that you got it right, I tried to trim the file, and got a message such as "file duration not correct" or "unknown".

But Rhythmbox plays it without problem...

[slartibartfast]

I think that you got it right, I tried to trim the file, and got a message such as "file duration not correct" or "unknown".

But Rhythmbox plays it without problem...

Maybe try converting the file with Foobar 2000 instead.

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[bpa]

But Rhythmbox plays it without problem...

Rhythmbox and LMS are different.

Rhythmbox decodes the flac and plays the Flac file itself.
LMS streams undecoded Flac to a player - for LMS to know which byte offset within flac file to start the sending as a stream to player - LMS must know the file duration.

[gian]

Thanks bpa for pointing me in the right direction,

and thanks slartibartfast too,

in the end, this is what fixed the issue:

ffmpeg -i input.flac -c:v copy -c:a flac output.flac

[bpa]

Thanks bpa for pointing me in the right direction,

and thanks slartibartfast too,

in the end, this is what fixed the issue:

ffmpeg -i input.flac -c:v copy -c:a flac output.flac

The "-c:v " is odd/extraneous as that is for copying video ?

[gian]

The "-c:v " is odd/extraneous as that is for copying video ?

I guess you are right, I copied the code from another page without bothering to check the syntax