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    Default Any plans for WMA Lossless Support?

    I noticed in an earlier thread that it appears WMA lossless is not supported (and passed through without transcoding to the device). Any plans to support it or is there an option to force transcoding it?

    My receiver (Onkyo TX-NR905, with v1.08 firmware) works great with any files that are MP3, but if I attempt to select any WMA song, it flashes “CANNOT PLAY” on the receiver display, and on the TV monitor, it moves to the next song, and the process repeats. I know the receiver does not support lossless WMA, and I suspect that's what is being sent.

    Also in Mezzmo’s folder listing, the “File Type” folder only has “wma” as a sub-folder, but no “mp3” as I’d expect. When “File Type” directory is selected, you do see all the MP3 and WMA songs. This is really minor, but I'd at least be able to use it if there was a MP3 folder.

    Here's the FFmpeg data on a sample WMA song:

    ffmpeg version N-31788-g0d4ea7b, Copyright (c) 2000-2011 the FFmpeg developers
    built on Aug 10 2011 11:16:35 with gcc 4.4.2
    configuration: --enable-memalign-hack --arch=x86 --target-os=mingw32 --cross-prefix=i686-mingw32- --enable-static --disable-shared --enable-zlib --disable-ffplay --prefix=/media/windows/ffmpeg --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libx264 --enable-gpl --extra-libs='-lx264 -lpthread' --enable-runtime-cpudetect --pkg-config=pkg-config
    libavutil 51. 11. 1 / 51. 11. 1
    libavcodec 53. 10. 0 / 53. 10. 0
    libavformat 53. 6. 0 / 53. 6. 0
    libavdevice 53. 2. 0 / 53. 2. 0
    libavfilter 2. 28. 1 / 2. 28. 1
    libswscale 2. 0. 0 / 2. 0. 0
    libpostproc 51. 2. 0 / 51. 2. 0
    [asf @ 01549b40] max_analyze_duration 5000000 reached at 5060000
    Input #0, asf, from 'D:\Pdata\Music\Duran Duran\Decade- Greatest Hits\10 A View to a Kill.wma':
    Metadata:
    title : A View to a Kill
    artist : Duran Duran
    genre : Alternative
    album : Decade: Greatest Hits
    track : 10
    WM/Year : 1989
    composer : Andy Taylor; Nick Rhodes; Simon LeBon
    album_artist : Duran Duran
    WM/MediaPrimaryClassID: {D1607DBC-E323-4BE2-86A1-48A42A28441E}
    WMFSDKVersion : 12.0.7600.16385
    WMFSDKNeeded : 0.0.0.0000
    PeakValue : 312
    AverageLevel : 754
    WM/EncodingTime : 1844674
    WM/Provider : AMG
    publisher : EMI Music Distribution
    WM/UniqueFileIdentifier: AMGa_id=R 6392;AMGp_id=P 4144;AMGt_id=T 1934735
    WM/ProviderRating: 8
    WM/ProviderStyle: Pop/Rock
    IsVBR : 1
    MediaFoundationVersion: 2.112
    Duration: 00:03:35.96, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 936 kb/s
    Stream #0.0: Audio: c[1][0][0] / 0x0163, 44100 Hz, 2 channels, 1152 kb/s
    At least one output file must be specified


    ---> DB Level Info: 0, -99
    ---> Frame rate:
    ---> Aspect ratio:

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    Unfortunately FFmpeg still doesn't support lossless WMA (see in the output you've pasted where it says "Stream #0.0: Audio: " - it's not even recognized properly). Once FFmpeg developers add support for WMA lossless, Mezzmo will be able to support it as well.

    Regarding the mp3 folder issue - is this one of the standard active playlists? If you run maintenance, does the mp3 folder appear? I assume that your mp3 files have an .mp3 extension, right?

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    Thanks for the fast response. Sorry to hear WMA lossless is not supported yet. Hopefully in the future, although I gather this is one of Microsoft's proprietary undocumented formats, so I suspect it may never be handled (not a fault of Mezzmo). I may have to convert these to something else like lossless FLAC.

    On the missing mp3 folder, running the Maintain Library did the trick, and the mp3 folder now shows up.

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