Problems with Flac and PS3 - playback terminates early

[jj1138]

Hello, I have been using flac files successfully for some time with the PS3 and Tversity. I just updated my PS3 from 1.8 to 2.10 and Tversity to the latest version 0.9.11.4 and am now having problems with some flac files terminating early on the PS3. All play fine in Winamp, Tversity's library window and on a Dlink DSM-520 media player. Songs that don't work display their length as 9:59'59" on the PS3. Files that work show correct lengths.

I've searched thru these forums and see this was an issue back in the fall but the implication is that the latest version of Tversity should have fixed this. Is anyone else still having this problem? I've seen patches mentioned but they seem to be for the previous versions of Tversity. Any ideas? Am I doing something wrong or there still an issue with Tversity?

Thanks.

[jj1138]

Followup - this also seems to affect lossless audio files encoded in .ape format.

[Cregan4584]

Same here. Any ideas anyone? I saw the "fix" for the xbox issue but im not converting flac to lower quality, especially when it plays flac perfectly for the undecided amount of time it wants to play.

[dl2agoon]

I've had this issue before and found a *fix*.
Just simply re-encode the affected flac files. Doesn't take long especially if you use foobar since it carries over tags.

[jj1138]

Thanks for that suggestion. I'm not sure why this works, but it does. I pointed foobar at the exact same copy of flac.exe that EAC used to rip the CDs in the first place. This won't take nearly as long (or as much space) as re-ripping the CDs to uncompressed files, which was the only other thing I could think of.

Also, I had never seen foobar2000 before - nice package, I may be using it a lot.

[jj1138]

I just noticed another interesting detail on this. When I scroll thru the files in Tversity's Flash Player window (under the Library tab) some songs, maybe 10-20%, do not show a time - the field is completely missing. On a typical CD of 10-15 songs, 2-4 of them are like this. These are the same songs that don't work on the PS3. I'm now guessing that EAC is for some reason not tagging or formatting some files correctly. At least now I can go thru and find the ones that need recoding without going back and forth between the PS3 and PC.

[Lassel]

I have exactly the sama problem. I cant see any comments from TVersity on this issue. Does anyone know if there is a list on the issues that TVersity regards as "problems to fix" and when.

//lasse

[medtech]

I started a mass reconvert flac>flac output to the same file with foobar and I can confirm that the output files show song duration in the TVersity library while none of my original files displayed this. I didn't miss a setting to replace existing files, did I? If not I guess I'll have to go in and delete all of the old files and rename the new files so the track numbers are correct but, all in all, much better than dragging out all of the old CD's and reripping my entire collection.

UPDATE: Re-encoding the files stopped the behavior of every song stopping completely and going to the next track but I was still getting audio dropouts like the transcoder was outrunning the network speed even with every setting to the lowest bitrate. I remembered that my old Squeezebox2 used to have a problem sometimes if it had to make two wireless jumps so I hooked up the computer running TVersity to the router with an ethernet cable and all looks to be fine. Sounds sweet being fed to a new Onkyo SR875. Thanks again for this fix. This problem has been frustrating me for days.
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