I can't get ALAC (Apple Lossless) files to play.

I've tried putting ALAC, MP3 and FLAC on to the same HDD and RC2 recognises the MP3 and FLAC files but not the ALAC files.

ALAC files worked fine with RC1 so I don't get what's changed.

Must say, great work though. Once this setup is working it will be incredible!

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Is your hard drive ntfs? If it is so you should mount it and then include it with a symlink to mpd default music folder! If you're not sure how to do it let me know and I'll post here!

Drive is formatted Fat 32.

admin said

Rob said

I can't get ALAC (Apple Lossless) files to play.

I've tried putting ALAC, MP3 and FLAC on to the same HDD and RC2 recognises the MP3 and FLAC files but not the ALAC files.

ALAC files worked fine with RC1 so I don't get what's changed.

Must say, great work though. Once this setup is working it will be incredible!

Hi, this is probably due to the fact I recompiled mpd, and maybe alac libraries are not present in the default compile configuration. Thanks for the appreciation, in the next release you will able to listen to your alac library!

Thanks. I look forward to the next release

How do I mount an USB NTFS drive to RaspyFI Rc2 ?
Is it possible to play WAV files with RaspyFI Rc2 ?

admin said

First, you need to install fuse:

apt-get install libfuse2 ntfs-3g

Then, discover how your ntfs drive is called:

fdisk -l

For example, /dev/sda

Then, you create your folder and give proper permissions:

sudo mkdir /media/music1
sudo chmod -R 777 /media/music1

Now, set the automount:

sudo nano /etc/fstab

and insert the following line at the end:

/dev/sdb1 /media/music1 ntfs-3g defaults 0 0

Now, check if everything is allright:

mount -a

If you receive no errors, then you're fine.

Now, we create a symlink to mpd's default directory :

cd /var/lib/mpd/music
sudo ln -s /media/music1

Now, everything should be fine. All you have to do is reboot and enjoy!

Wav files are not reported to be working as of now. In next release of RaspyFi, there will be automatic recognition of usb drives and wav\alac support!

Do you have an estimated release date for the new release? It's very exciting!

Hi,

I've installed and love Raspyfi. However, I use it once and the next time I go to use it, it hangs where it was last left off, and I have to restart it. I've noticed that when I ssh into it and navigate to /mnt/nas, it will hang here. On occasion, I can kill the ssh and remote back in and everything works ok, but more often than not, I have to restart it. Once I restart it, everything works fine.

Any thoughts on what the issue might be?

Thanks!

So sorry!. My usb may be broken and I reformat the USB and below is current mount option in raspyFi:
/dev/sda1 on /media/music type vfat (rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=cp437,iocharset=cp932,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro)

But still mpd recognized only 262 songs in USB as below:
[email protected] ~ $ mpc stats
Artists: 16
Albums: 23
Songs: 262

In my another MPD machine, its mounted option is :
/dev/sda1 on /media/usb0 type vfat (rw,nodev,noexec,noatime,nodiratime,sync,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro)

I am not sure difference between iso8859-1 and cp932 for iocharset but may be this will be help.
Also by above mount option, it seems all songs are recognized as below.
# mpc stats
Artists: 170
Albums: 130
Songs: 1534