Bugzilla – Bug 11285
Allow SqueezeCenter to downsample AIF using SoX.
Last modified: 2009-10-05 14:30:48 UTC
This is similar to bug 10660. The problem with moving from flac to sox for AIFF is that one woudl lose the ability to seek in AIFF files.
To be clear, the choice is (a) do nothing (continue to use flac) and retain seeking capability, (b) switch to sox and loose seeking but gain downsampling, (c) switch to a 'flac | sox' pipeline with both capabilities, (d) add seeking capabilities to the AIFF file-format handler in SC and switch to sox. For me, (a) would be fine, as I only entered this bug to document the issue. I think that (b) is bad because it is a regression. I think that (c) is probably overkill but would be the easiest way to satisfy this enhancement request. I think that (d) is not worth the programming effort. For (c), the convert.conf entry would look like: aif flc * * # FT:{START=--skip=%t}U:{END=--until=%v}D:{RESAMPLE=-r %d} [flac] -cs --totally-silent --compression-level-0 $START$ $END$ -- $FILE$ | [sox] -q -t flac - -t flac -C 0 $RESAMPLE$ -
Are you pretty sure that that (c) solution would work? If so, why not check it in and see how people like it. Otherwise, I think we have a concensus for (a) and see how the voting goes.
Change 25693 implements option (c).
This bug has been marked as fixed in the 7.4.0 release version of SqueezeBox Server! * SqueezeCenter: 28672 * Squeezebox 2 and 3: 130 * Transporter: 80 * Receiver: 65 * Boom: 50 * Controller: 7790 * Radio: 7790 Please see the Release Notes for all the details: http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/Release_Notes If you haven't already, please download and install the new version from http://www.logitechsqueezebox.com/support/download-squeezebox-server.html If you are still experiencing this problem, feel free to reopen the bug with your new comments and we'll have another look.