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I am able to play FLAC files via my PlayStation 3 from Servio if the files are songs that I RIPed from CDs, but for some reason I cannot play downloaded FLAC files?

However, if I use my Sony Tablet S (running Android) and the a MediaHouse browser the same downloaded FLAC files play fine.

In both cases the files are coming from Serviio on my Windows 7 system.

Is this some sort of DRM issues, a transcoding issue, or something else?

Cheers, Eric

I may not be able to help, but the first thing you need to do it post the output of:


FFmpeg is in the Serviio/lib folder I think (I use the Linux build which is a bit different).

Does this help?

Cheers, Eric

C:\Program Files\Serviio\lib>ffmpeg -i "D:\Users\Eric\Google Drive\Music\Downloaded\FLAC\Azureus Vuze\Aerosmith Discography FLAC\Aerosmith - Aerosmith (1973 ) [flac]\03 - Dream On.flac"
ffmpeg version 0.9, Copyright (c) 2000-2011 the FFmpeg developers
built on Dec 13 2011 20:46:11 with gcc 4.4.2
configuration: --enable-static --disable-shared --disable-ffplay --disable-ffserver --enable-memalign-hack --enable-libmp3lame --enable-librtmp --extra-libs='-lrtmp -lpolarssl -lws2_32 -lwinmm' --arch=x86 --enable-runtime-cpudetect --enablepthreads --target-os=mingw32 --cross-prefix=i686-mingw32- --pkg-config=pkg-config
libavutil 51. 32. 0 / 51. 32. 0
libavcodec 53. 42. 0 / 53. 42. 0
libavformat 53. 24. 0 / 53. 24. 0
libavdevice 53. 4. 0 / 53. 4. 0
libavfilter 2. 53. 0 / 2. 53. 0
libswscale 2. 1. 0 / 2. 1. 0
[flac @ 018488e0] max_analyze_duration 5000000 reached at 5015510Input #0, flac, from 'D:\Users\Eric\Google Drive\Music\Downloaded\FLAC\Azureus Vuze\Aerosmith Discography FLAC\Aerosmith - Aerosmith (1973 ) [flac]\03 - Dream On.flac':
Metadata:
TITLE : Dream On
ARTIST : Aerosmith
ALBUM ARTIST : Aerosmith
ALBUM : Aerosmith
GENRE : Rock
COMMENT : Box Of Fire, 20 bit Sony SBM 1993 remasters
ENSEMBLE : Aerosmith
track : 3
DATE : 1973
REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_PEAK: 0.829742431640625
REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_GAIN: -3.87 dB
DISCID : 5b085b08
Duration: 00:04:26.06, bitrate: 789 kb/s
Stream #0:0: Audio: flac, 44100 Hz, stereo, s16
At least one output file must be specified

is there an error in the log when you play the file?

OK, can you see the attached log files?

At any rate I cannot see any errors related to Aerosmith, but there are lots of errors related to Led Zeppelin - for example
Another thing I noticed from the PS3, is that I can navigate down to the folders with the .flac files in them, but it does not list the actual files in the folder, which is why I cannot play them.

On the other hand, the browser app on my Android Tablet can see the files as well play them. I am not sure what the difference is between the PS3 and the Tablet ...

OK, I have some more insight...

This seems to be a path length problem with the PS3. I moved the .flac files to a folder higher up and they play fine from the PS3.

The media browser on my Android Tablet does not seem to have this limitation.

I suppose I could try to report this to Sony as a bug in the PS3, but that would be pointless as I am sure Sony does not consider stuff like that important.

It seems the only thing to do is reorganize folder structure so the path lengths are not as long.