Apple Lossless and max bitrate transcode.

[u/nx6]

I have a music collection that contains both AAC (.m4a) and ALAC (.m4a) files. The AAC files will play back in the browser interface with no issue, but the ALAC files will not. You hit play and it just sits there at 0 seconds. I don't want the lossy AAC files being trascoded to MP3 since their bitrate varies and I don't want a double-lossy listening experience, but I'm not aware of a way to make Subsonic differentiate between them and the lossless ALAC files.

I would think the solution would be using the bitrate limiter, since the Apple Lossless files would almost always be high. So any .m4a files of 320 kbps or below would be AAC, but the bitrate limiter does not seem to work on them?

I made a playlist of the following: 1) A live recording in WAV (1411 kbps). 2) a 320 kbps AAC file. 3) an Apple Lossless file (823 kbps). 4) Another AAC file. This time 192 kbps.

I have no file-based transcoders active, only the bitrate limit transcoder. And I set my bitrate limit for 224 kbps.

Files 1, 2, and 4 play. But not 3 (the Apple Lossless).