Re: [Savonet-users] Problem decoding aif

[Samuel M. <sm...@gm...>]

Yes, I don't think that AIFF has been tested much. Could you please
send me a sample file that does not work in order for me to do some
testing?

Cheers,

Samuel.

On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Daniel James
<dan...@so...> wrote:
> Hi Stephan,
>
>> unable to decode
>> ""/home/airtime/mairlistdata/BarryWhite/LetTheMusicPlay/YouSeeTheTroubleWithMe.aif"
>> as {audio=1+;video=0;midi=0}!"
>>
>> the aif is absolutely ok and can be played with several players.
>
> Just because the file is valid doesn't mean your Liquidsoap binary has
> support for it. Did you download a Liquidsoap package or compile from
> source?
>
> I note that AIFF support is described as experimental in Liquidsoap
> 0.9.0 version of ocaml-natty here:
>
> https://github.com/savonet/liquidsoap/blob/master/CHANGES
>
> See also the note on little-endian AIFF (AIFF-C/sowt) here:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_Interchange_File_Format
>
> It would be good to determine exactly what kind of files you have there,
> if not all AIFF's are the same.
>
> My suggestion would be to write a script that converts your AIFF files
> to FLAC, tags them with metadata based on the directory/file structure
> or any other metadata you have, and tests them for validity. You should
> not lose any audio quality, and you might reclaim 40% or more of the
> disk space.
>
> Cheers!
>
> Daniel
>
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