stalling music playback using web interface

[metropical 29]

random stalls in music playback.  M4A or mp3.  Though it does seem more often with M4A.
In shuffle play, I'll see a spinning blue circle.

if I select the next cut that has apparently stalled playback, it immediately plays back.

server has 2 new WD5400 2 TB drives.  the server app is on an '18 mini on Monterey and the drives in a cMP3,1 running High Sierra.

The computers are connected with a 5p TPlink unmanaged switch.

Server 4.8.3.0

Thanks

embyserver log.txt ffmpeg-transcode-99598b63-8442-455c-8cbd-016dada97c11_1.txt

[metropical 29]

I know it's in the emby log, but Firefox 124.0.1 is the.browser.

[Luke 37084]

Hi, can you try Chrome to see how things compare?

[metropical 29]

honestly, I'd rather not.  It's a memory hog in MacOS and is not very secure.  So much so that one place I work restricts it from use.

But I'll try it and I guess perhaps Safari, which has it's issues as well.

[metropical 29]

tried Safari and Brave (which is a derivative of Chrome.  Both failed.

Chrome hasn't had a problem in around 3 hrs. 

What is the issue?  Since any browser supports mp3 and m4a playback.

 

and just as I wrote that, Chrome got stuck.  argh!

Edited April 9 by metropical

[metropical 29]

I think these are the right logs for the Chrome experience yesterday.

embyserver-63848304001.txt

ffmpeg-transcode-d29cd84b-2471-4c98-88b7-6e3231fb7a3b_1.txt

Edited April 10 by metropical

[Luke 37084]

Quote

Since any browser supports mp3 and m4a playback.

Your log is alac though, in an m4a container. Yes the browsers support m4a as a container, but in order to direct play they also need to support the codec within the container.

[Luke 37084]

So is it only a problem when transcoding is occuring?

[metropical 29]

how would I know if it's transcoding only?

sometimes it happens mid song, but mostly it happens transitioning to the next song.  does that point to transcoding?

is the an extension that can be added to Firefox or is it more that the files need to be true m4a not alac contained as m4a?

in the future, should I be converting flac to Mpeg 4 AAC instead of alac?

Edited April 16 by metropical

[metropical 29]

or somehow point FFx to FFmpeg to transcode?

[metropical 29]

since ALAC isn't supported by FFx, when I click the track that Emby stalls on, what makes it then play?

[Luke 37084]

On 4/16/2024 at 12:45 PM, metropical said:

since ALAC isn't supported by FFx, when I click the track that Emby stalls on, what makes it then play?

IT is converting the audio. I'm guessing this is only happening when transcoding is taking place, right? You can check that by having the server dashboard open while playing.