Some time ago, I installed a fresh version of snakeoil on to an old laptop that I have...& I am certain that I was able to get mp3's working. It made me think that perhaps there was some conflict with a plugin that I enabled.... So I did another clean install and much to my surprise, straight out of the box it would not work. The only thing that I did was to add 1x flac and 1x mp3 to the library.
Everytime I tried to play a mp3 it would crash the player. And the flac played fine everytime to a USB DAC (maybe I should try ALSA)....Edit: Well I just tried the analog output. Although I didnt actually hear anything, the flac file 'played' correctly and as soon as I selected the mp3 file, the player crashed.Nothing in the server.log file.
I tried updating LMS to 8.5.1 with the same result.
Like Tim above, I mostly have flac files with a smattering of mp3's in my library. But the wife/kids dont understand (or know) and its so frustrating and painful when it crashes. Luckily it hasnt happened while I have been travelling for work.
Open to any suggestions here, as I am now pretty much out of my depth.
Everytime I tried to play a mp3 it would crash the player. And the flac played fine everytime to a USB DAC (maybe I should try ALSA)....Edit: Well I just tried the analog output. Although I didnt actually hear anything, the flac file 'played' correctly and as soon as I selected the mp3 file, the player crashed.Nothing in the server.log file.
I tried updating LMS to 8.5.1 with the same result.
Like Tim above, I mostly have flac files with a smattering of mp3's in my library. But the wife/kids dont understand (or know) and its so frustrating and painful when it crashes. Luckily it hasnt happened while I have been travelling for work.
Open to any suggestions here, as I am now pretty much out of my depth.
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