jlambie 15 Posted October 17, 2022 Share Posted October 17, 2022 Hi The popular FLAC codec last month was updated for the first time in a decade (almost)! Among new features is the ability to losslesly encode and play higher resolution files in smaller packages (up to 32 bit, and higher sample rate than previously possible). Link is here: https://xiph.org/flac/2022/09/09/flac-1-4-0-released.html Software/players codecs however have to be updated in order to play these. Would there be any prospect of having Emby support the updated codec? It would be great if so! Thanks for considering 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sydlexius 241 Posted October 17, 2022 Share Posted October 17, 2022 3 minutes ago, jlambie said: Hi The popular FLAC codec last month was updated for the first time in a decade (almost)! Among new features is the ability to losslesly encode and play higher resolution files in smaller packages (up to 32 bit, and higher sample rate than previously possible). Link is here: https://xiph.org/flac/2022/09/09/flac-1-4-0-released.html Software/players codecs however have to be updated in order to play these. Would there be any prospect of having Emby support the updated codec? It would be great if so! Thanks for considering May as well bump this to 1.4.1, though I don't know if there were any material changes. It's too bad about their stance on not supporting floating point...it'd make for more faithful conversions from DSD and MQA. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37063 Posted October 17, 2022 Share Posted October 17, 2022 Hi, have you tried to play these files with Emby apps? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlambie 15 Posted October 17, 2022 Author Share Posted October 17, 2022 32 minutes ago, Luke said: Hi, have you tried to play these files with Emby apps? Hi Luke, yes - they don't play. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sydlexius 241 Posted October 17, 2022 Share Posted October 17, 2022 34 minutes ago, Luke said: Hi, have you tried to play these files with Emby apps? I'd have to convert one of my SACDs to a FLAC with the newer feature sets...I checked xiph's preferred audio test files, and there does not appear to be a sample that correlates to the newer capabilities of the flac CODEC. With all of that said, I suppose that if Emby can't handle this, that a feature request would need to be submitted to FFMPEG? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37063 Posted October 17, 2022 Share Posted October 17, 2022 32 minutes ago, jlambie said: Hi Luke, yes - they don't play. Thanks. In what emby apps did you try? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlambie 15 Posted October 17, 2022 Author Share Posted October 17, 2022 25 minutes ago, Luke said: In what emby apps did you try? So far tried the server on my PC and the iOS app on iPad. Can try on my old android phone next. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37063 Posted October 17, 2022 Share Posted October 17, 2022 How about in browsers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlambie 15 Posted October 17, 2022 Author Share Posted October 17, 2022 9 minutes ago, Luke said: How about in browsers? The same. Attached is the error message received in a Chrome browser, if that helps. I am aware from speaking with dbPoweramp, whose encoders I used to create the 1.4.1 FLAC files, that the software/players need to be updated to use the newer codecs. Thanks for your speedy replies! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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