LMS not able to play MP3

[davem]

I did. But no luck. I tried all squeezelite versions and as soon as I tried to play a mp3 it would crash (a red X beside the status) and the player would disappear from iPeng. Nothing in the logs.

Thought that I would try mpd, so installed ncmpc client and played the same mp3. All good.

So it seems that the issue relates to mp3 on squeezelite (& hardware players before I manually installed LAME). Is installing LAME actually the correct thing to have done ?

Edit. Just discovered that I have some .m4a files and they play fine as well...

Can you go to LMS settings, under file formats, look for MP3 and see what/how it's configured/ See if you can use other codecs, e.g. FFMPEG and see if that works better.

You mean 'file types' ? Under MP3, the only option I have is Native or Disabled.