Re "Issues with Large Files" and "Recent Radio Downloads Not Playing".

[batguano999]

> 
>Trouble is, if this is due to ffmpeg update, I have no idea when change 
>took place but certainly within the last week or so. (Or on reflection 
>was it when I upgraded from openSUSE 42.1 to 42.2??? Groan) How can I 
>find that info on my system? That would at least enable me to test and 
>if correct demonstrate to ffmpeg that they have introduced a bug. 
>

Hi
To check whether your version of FFmpeg creates m4a files that play nice with the Linn...
Create some test files with different durations... 15 minutes, 30 minutes, 60 minutes etc. up to 3 hours.
If they all play OK then you can eliminate FFmpeg.

This is how to ceate a 15 minute (900 second) test file.
ffmpeg -f lavfi -i sine=d=900 -y 900_FFmpeg.m4a
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@mint ~ $ ffmpeg -f lavfi -i sine=d=900 -y 900_FFmpeg.m4a
ffmpeg version git-2017-01-21-cde007d Copyright (c) 2000-2017 the FFmpeg developers
 built with gcc 5.4.0 (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.4) 20160609
 configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libvorbis --enable-libx264
 libavutil 55. 43.100 / 55. 43.100
 libavcodec 57. 75.100 / 57. 75.100
 libavformat 57. 62.100 / 57. 62.100
 libavdevice 57. 2.100 / 57. 2.100
 libavfilter 6. 69.100 / 6. 69.100
 libswscale 4. 3.101 / 4. 3.101
 libswresample 2. 4.100 / 2. 4.100
 libpostproc 54. 2.100 / 54. 2.100
Input #0, lavfi, from 'sine=d=900':
 Duration: N/A, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 705 kb/s
 Stream #0:0: Audio: pcm_s16le, 44100 Hz, mono, s16, 705 kb/s
Output #0, ipod, to '900_FFmpeg.m4a':
 Metadata:
 encoder : Lavf57.62.100
 Stream #0:0: Audio: aac (LC) (mp4a / 0x6134706D), 44100 Hz, mono, fltp, 69 kb/s
 Metadata:
 encoder : Lavc57.75.100 aac
Stream mapping:
 Stream #0:0 -> #0:0 (pcm_s16le (native) -> aac (native))
Press [q] to stop, [?] for help
size= 7765kB time=00:15:00.00 bitrate= 70.7kbits/s speed=51.4x 
video:0kB audio:7613kB subtitle:0kB other streams:0kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead: 1.999211%
[aac @ 0x372b8e0] Qavg: 314.807
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@mint ~ $ AtomicParsley 900_FFmpeg.m4a -T 1
...
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AtomicParsley version: 0.9.6 (utf8)
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Movie duration: 900.024 seconds (15:0.02) - 69.29* kbp/sec bitrate (*=approximate)
Low-level details. Total tracks: 1
Trk Type Handler Kind Lang Bytes
1 soun SoundHandler mp4a und 7795324
 69.29 kbp/s MPEG-4 AAC Low Complexity/LC Profile channels: [1]
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