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dave2010
23-05-2012, 08:56
I recently bought Simon Rattle's CD of Bruckner 9th, which has a completed 4th movement. I ripped this to hard drive using iTunes as normal.

Today I tried to play it via my SB3 Squeezebox, which I control using both iPeng and Squeezepad. Since the last movement is the one which is clearly of interest I tried that first. No sound!

I thought maybe it was a very quiet track, but I could not get it to play and produce audible output.

I thought I'd check some of the other tracks - no problem. Coming back to this last movement track I kept getting the same result.

OK - so I thought maybe the ripping didn't go well, and was about to delete it from my hard drive and rip again, but before I did that I decided to check by playing the tracks on my iMac. Using iTunes there is absolutely no problem when playing directly from my iMac, and apart from a slightly quiet opening, there is enough sufficiently loud music for this to be obvious.

I don't know if this is a temporary glitch or not - though currently it does seem to be solid on the SB3. I'll probably stick with my original plan, and rip the CD again. Has anyone else experienced anything like this? Maybe there's a TOC or other file which has been corrupted and the SB3 can't pick it up. I think it does find the track details - just doesn't produce any sound!

Before I hit the Submit button on this post, I thought I'd try one more thing. I opened up SqueezePlay (the Logitech player) on the iMac, and tried to play from there. When I try to play the last track I get a "Problem: Can't open file ..." message, so it does looks as though there is something wrong with the final track. The other tracks are fine. I guess my solution of re-ripping that is the way to go, but I've not knowingly had this problem before.

morris_minor
23-05-2012, 09:19
I've never come across this before, Dave, and I've something like 16,000 tracks on my SB server. All have played fine through whichever player I've chosen - Transporter, Touch, SB3, Receiver, Boom, Radio, iPeng/iPad etc.

So I'd guess it was a ripping issue somehow. What format are you ripping to? You could try changing this, and seeing if the problem goes. Have you another ripping program?

NRG
23-05-2012, 09:43
I've had issues where the track starts to play and then the sound stops....but the track is still being played according to the SBT screen. The file sizes where correct but it also happened if the file was played via Windows Media Player!

I traced it back to a network issue between the PC I used to rip the CD and my SC server, there was something wrong with the tracks and yet the file size was correct...all I did was re-copy the faulty tracks and all was good again...so probably not related to your issue but I would first look into the network...

dave2010
23-05-2012, 11:03
Real pain so far. The system really doen't seem to like that last track on the CD. I've tried ripping again - no change so far.

I'll have to try something else. I normally rip to Alac, but might have to try ripping that last track to something else compatible, maybe AIFF or WAV.

Why should an Alac rip fail? I don't even know how rips work. Is there ever a point at which rippers gather information about the whole track and prepend it to the data stream, or do they all just procees the audio sequentially, possibly with interspersed meta data between the encoded blocks of audio?

Having to handle odd tracks like this as exception cases is rather a nuisance, to say the least. Last track of this http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bruckner-Symphony-Sir-Simon-Rattle/dp/B007O3QC8K/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1337770950&sr=8-1

PS: morris minor : Can we assume you Photoshopped your avatar?

morris_minor
23-05-2012, 11:55
PS: morris minor : Can we assume you Photoshopped your avatar?
No, this is my everyday transport; Bentley blower with a triple RPG launcher on top for all those who get in my way :lol:.

The sad truth is that I nicked it off the interweb . . .

Re: non playing tracks - do you get any "rebuffering" warning during silences? Though TBH this wouldn't always happen with the same track. As a CD rip I assume it's a 44.1/16 file. Occasionally I get some rebuffering with 94/24 files on a wireless-connected player when other family members are on laptops/iPads etc watching iPlayer or YouTube.