Flaky ALAC playback about squeezelite HOT 3 CLOSED

hi I had issues 6-12 months ago with ALAC playback. That was solved with updating ffmpeg libraries/package to version 3+.
As I don't use almost anything else but FLAC and DSD/DSF i do not know if that is still the case... but without FFMPEG #define in Makefile you do not get support for alac (and wma).

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Thanks gahabana. Initially I couldn't get alac to play at all, then I downloaded and used the ffmpeg version from here. I'm working under the assumption that this has ffmpeg built in so should work for me, and it mostly does.

Since my original post, I've been trying to test further to try and narrow down where the issue is. It's been rather frustrating. I've tried re-encoding problem albums with different encoders, but have not been able to get consistent results. In fact, an album encoded all at once can have one two problem tracks. I'm beginning to wonder if the issue is either RPi or Libreelec specific or something to do with my configuration.

For now I've disconnected my RPi and using a desktop PC running ubuntu and it's working near perfectly.

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The common issue I've encountered the ALAC files is that they must have all ATOMs at the beginning of the file for ffmpeg in squeezelite to be able to play them. I use mp4file --optimize filename.m4a on every alac and aac file before deploying them to my music library and never have an issue. You haven't provided a log file with the errors reported by squeezelite. Alternatively, you can disable native alac in LMS advanced settings-> file types and have the server decode the alac files.

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