So after a few days GTechniq'ing my new GTS, I finally am getting to play! Â I have a couple of niggles which I will put in separate posts.
I have put a bunch of FLAC files on an SD card (also tried on a USB), all ripped with the same settings in Exact Audio Copy, all happily play on several other different devices. Â In the PCM half of the songs are greyed out and won't play. Â I am baffled why some play and others done. Â I've even checked the bitrates to see if over some limit. Â Anyone else come across this before?
thanks
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*** UPDATE: FIX FOUND ***
The problem was caused by erroneous ID3 tags inside the FLAC files (FLAC should only have Vorbis tags), which it appears one of my media servers was putting in behind the scenes.
FIX: use MP3TAG to "REMOVE TAG" (red cross button) from all affected files, then "UNDO" (ctrl-z). This deletes all files but MP3TAG knowing it is a flac file when you undo it only restores Vorbis tags.
Unfortunately the UNDO does not restore albumart, so you have to restore that manually if you use it.
NOTE: also check your settings in MP3TAG to stop it writing ID3 tags altogether
TIP: add the column "TAG" to MP3TAG main view and it lists the tag formats(s) so you can see if there are ID3 tags present e.g. "FLAC (FLAC ID3V2)" or "FLAC (FLAC)"
PS there were a few files that I had to re-encode (flac command line if you input a flac file will just reencode it e.g. flac -6 -V -f song.flac). Â maybe a bug in an old version of flac?