ogg support

[simoncn]

(08-02-2014 12:15)tarnkappe Wrote:  Hello,

I am new to minimserver (smoothly installed yesterday on a Synology DS213+). The reasons why I am trying minimserver are

1) support for upnp search. This enables the random track functionality in the BubbleUPnP app. Great!
2) The support for transcoding to wav, because a naim uniti device does sound better when streamed with wav than flac.
3) Cover art is reliably transferred in high resolution (other than with the Synology media server that always forgets about the setting to transfer it that way).

I have read that the Synology media server will support to transcode to wav always, too, in the DSM 5 version. But I have no hope for 1).

After listening to some music I found that all my ogg/vorbis tracks were missing on the minimserver. Ohhhhh nooooo. It's a pitty. Such a good looking server and then such a show stopper for me.

Why I am using ogg instead of mp3: Not only because it is completely free (free like freedom). Also it has better sound quality in low bit rates (what was interesting in former times on mobile mp3/ogg players because storage was small). But the main reason is, that mp3 does not support gapless playback as it is encoded in chunks, where the last chunk is padded with zero to fill it up AFAIK.

MP3 is encoded as a sequence of individual frames. Each frame contains 1152 samples, so each frame corresponds to about 1/40 of a second for a sample rate of 44100. In theory, this could cause a small gap of up to 1/40 of a second between tracks. However, I would expect the MP3 encoding of a complete album to adjust the break points between tracks so that they fall exactly on frame boundaries.

I haven't checked whether popular MP3 encoders do this adjustment. If they don't, there's an opportunity for someone to write a software tool that reads the tracks of an MP3 album and applies this adjustment.

Quote:Anyhow I have really many music files mainly in flac, mp3 or ogg/vorbis. But I do not want to recode ogg always I get ogg. So I really vote for ogg support in minim server. How much had I to donate to trigger the development on this feature?

Greetings,
Gert

It's not a matter of money; it's a matter of time. I have a very long list of requested enhancements and I don't have time to do them all. I don't see any realistic prospect of being able to find time to add ogg/vorbis support in the foreseeable future.