[pholcus1975]

Never mind, I will check tonight song number 2

 

[Lurker0]

After playing around with other albums I noticed the issues are very album specific. Take three albums, all FLAC 24bit 192khz legally purchased from HD Tracks, and all of which play fine on VLC player from my laptop even if the data is being transferred from the iBasso itself.

If you can provide an example (one track via  a shared space and PM) of a flac that causes the problem, I could try to find a reason.
 
I've faced a similar problem some months ago, and the cause was a non-standard compressing mode of that flac. It was done using a Windows-based software, but it is not supported by the official libFLAC. Then iBasso had updated libFLAC to the latest (1.3.1 those days), but I don't remember whether it helped or not... I've re-packed those flacs using foobar2000 as the solution.
 
If you have foobar2000, or any other tool that shows information about software/tool used to encode the file, you may check yourself. If it is different from "reference libFLAC x.x.x YYYYMMDD" (where x.x.x - version not bigger than 1.3.1, and YYYYMMDD - a date), then it is the cause of the problem.

 

[pholcus1975]

Also pls check size of embedded artwork.

 

[LordHiler]

Never mind, I will check tonight song number 2

 
Thank you for helping me out! I assume you are talking about the album "Face Value" by Phil Collins, the first track "In the Air Tonight" stutters for me usually right in the first fifteen seconds or so. Definitely let me know how it goes for you!

 

[LordHiler]

  If you can provide an example (one track via  a shared space and PM) of a flac that causes the problem, I could try to find a reason.
 
I've faced a similar problem some months ago, and the cause was a non-standard compressing mode of that flac. It was done using a Windows-based software, but it is not supported by the official libFLAC. Then iBasso had updated libFLAC to the latest (1.3.1 those days), but I don't remember whether it helped or not... I've re-packed those flacs using foobar2000 as the solution.
 
If you have foobar2000, or any other tool that shows information about software/tool used to encode the file, you may check yourself. If it is different from "reference libFLAC x.x.x YYYYMMDD" (where x.x.x - version not bigger than 1.3.1, and YYYYMMDD - a date), then it is the cause of the problem.

Lurker that is extremely helpful information, I really appreciate it. I have no experience with libFLAC but I will check that out. I'm also willing to provide a file to you so you can take a look, but I have never done that before and I'm not sure what the best method is, I will PM you. Thanks!

 

[pholcus1975]

Thank you for helping me out! I assume you are talking about the album "Face Value" by Phil Collins, the first track "In the Air Tonight" stutters for me usually right in the first fifteen seconds or so. Definitely let me know how it goes for you!

No. Teach Your Children I meant

 

[LordHiler]

Oh OK, that totally works too. Thanks!

 

[pholcus1975]

I don't understand if you have problems with "Teach your Children" too!

 

[LordHiler]

As far as I can tell the whole album simply will not play.

 

[Lurker0]

I'm also willing to provide a file to you so you can take a look

Yes, I was right! It was encoded using "Lavf57.34.103" library. I've re-encoded it using foobar2000 ("libFLAC 1.2.1 (UTC 2007-09-17)"), and the result plays flawlessly on my DX80. By the way, the problem I described before was with a different encoder, not LAVF!
 
You can install free MediaInfo (https://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo) for Windows to check media file information. After installing, right click on a file and choose MediaInfo. Select menu View->Text, then look for "Writing library" at the end of the list.
 
 
So, don't blame iBasso: they use official flac decoder which sometimes fails on non-standard files. It's a shame that HDTracks sells music files created by not so compatible flac encoders!

 

[pholcus1975]

Great!!well done Lurker0

 

[jamato8]

  Yes, I was right! It was encoded using "Lavf57.34.103" library. I've re-encoded it using foobar2000 ("libFLAC 1.2.1 (UTC 2007-09-17)"), and the result plays flawlessly on my DX80. By the way, the problem I described before was with a different encoder, not LAVF!
 
You can install free MediaInfo (https://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo) for Windows to check media file information. After installing, right click on a file and choose MediaInfo. Select menu View->Text, then look for "Writing library" at the end of the list.
 
 
So, don't blame iBasso: they use official flac decoder which sometimes fails on non-standard files. It's a shame that HDTracks sells music files created by not so compatible flac encoders!

Your new name, Sherlock Holmes. :^) 

 

[LordHiler]

Thank you so much for doing this! I am definitely dissapointed in HD Tracks, considering what you pay for the files you expect them to work.

I know this is probably a 100% newb question but will reincoding my problematic files using an official FLAC encoder degrade the quality at all?

Thanks again!

 

[pholcus1975]

No, because flac is lossless , so you turn lossless into lossless!

 

[LordHiler]

Fantastic! Lurker for me at least you've made a great player a perfect player. I already loved the DX80 but between your kick-ass firmware and your help today I really feel like it does everything I need with excellence. Thank you so much!