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Did it play in earlier versions of Kodi?
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any thoughts on why this may not be working?
thanks!
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I know nothing about shn format (who knew there were so many music file formats), but the debug log is showinng errors from ffmpeg - the player library that kodi uses. This library gets updated with differnt versions of Kodi, so it could well be a regression in ffmpeg at some point.
As for a fix, or pinnng it down more closely, that will need someone with knowledge of ffmpeg.
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2020-09-25, 03:04
(This post was last modified: 2020-09-25, 03:12 by koawmfot.)
thanks guys.
fwiw too, it does play in Foobar2000 but not VLC; VLC just closes no error nothing. (i only have VLC for testing stuff, its not really used this setup is like htpc mostly for music). i have also tried lots of other SHN files and same thing. having trouble tracking down the encoder to convert something from wav/flac.
does it play in kodi for you or no?
edit: one other thing... when i browse the directories, the flac files do not show an extension and seem to read the metadata and i can get tag info in an Information dialog. when i right click the SHN there is not even an "information" option.
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Yes you are absolutely correct on both the tagging and conversion. I am super familiar with Foobar so i am not worried about converting either. (i love the Foobar DVD-A plugin, it rips the 5.1 hi res surround audio to standalone flac that can be tagged and played back in Kodi in full 5.1 glory and passed as 6 channel LPCM to the reciever...)
Really the question was just that it is supposed to work and is a supported format but its not working. I had no real plan to tag or manage this content, or add it to the library or anything, since its organized enough as is in a flat file share by concert date/venue.
Maybe if its not going to get fixed, drop it from the list of supported codecs?
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I still think this is an issue for the ffmpeg guys (VCL also uses ffmpeg), what can be done by team Kodi is limited. The list of audio formats suppoted is simply those supported by ffmpeg.
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2020-09-26, 19:47
(This post was last modified: 2020-09-27, 11:02 by DaveBlake.)
OK, I can confirm that trying to play the example .shn file from file view mode works if you pick videoplayer from the "play using..." context menu, but does not work if using paplayer. Paplayer gives errors:
ERROR <general>: CDVDDemuxFFmpeg::Open - error probing input format, C:\MusicTest\SHN file\01 - Gathering Storm Part I.shn
ERROR <general>: CAudioDecoder: Unable to Init Codec while loading file C:\MusicTest\SHN file\01 - Gathering Storm Part I.shn
As for playing in previous versions of Kodi, I tested back to v15.2, and paplayer does not play the example .shn file in any of them, in fact Jarvis and Krypton both crashed. Could be that particular file, otherwise this is not a recent regression.
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i can submit a bug report if someone points me in the right direction. thanks//