Issues with Large Files

[Budge]

Hi Richard,

On 14/01/17 15:20, iz wrote:
>> Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2017 at 12:05 PM
>> From: RS
>>
>> always suspicious of people who refer to "chunks" when there is a recognised
>
> I suspect they are using "chunk" from MP4 parlance, though a chunk contains multiple audio blocks ("samples" in MP4).
>
>> Does the Linn play all the files in a directory in turn?  It it does, would
>> it help to split the file into separate files for each act of the opera?
>
> The issue could be that Linn's player doesn't have enough memory to read the sample tables from the file's MP4 container, so it refuses to play the file. If so, splitting the file or transcoding to FLAC are probably the best options.

Thanks for the replies and yes I take the point about the arithmetic.
I too am surprised by Linn's response and the memory shortage seems most 
plausible.  What I do not understand is why they have not come across 
this before.  I shall pursue them on this and report back.

Breaking up the download into acts would be a huge task and one I cannot 
contemplate for more than a couple of favourites and with my RPi working 
so well the Linn devices may be destined for ebay!