cannot play ogg over bluetooth

[pbarsic]

Lossy formats are a strange thing. Theres no concept of bit depth in a lossy compressed file.

If you do commands below you should see an 'f' in the Format: field. This means "no bit depth". You will also notice that  mediainfo on the file does not report a bit depth.

Code:

telnet localist 6600
lsinfo "PATH_TO_FILE_RELATIVE_TO_MPD_MUSIC_ROOT"

IIRC the test ogg files I had would play but they spammed the MPD log with lots of weird errors. It's not surprising that MPD barfs when trying to output the decoded file over a Bluetooth connection.

Hi Tim,

The output indeed shows that there is no bitdepth reported with either method.

I may end up writing that transcode script after all.

Thanks for your help.

Best,
Paul

Code:

$ telnet localhost 6600
Trying ::1...
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
OK MPD 0.22.4
lsinfo SDCARD/Music/The_Meters/The_Very_Best_of_the_Meters/01_-_Cissy_Strut.ogg
file: SDCARD/Music/The_Meters/The_Very_Best_of_the_Meters/01_-_Cissy_Strut.ogg
Last-Modified: 2021-09-29T19:06:29Z
Format: 44100:f:2
Title: Cissy Strut
Artist: The Meters
Track: 1
Album: The Very Best of the Meters
ArtistSort: Meters, The
Genre: Funk
Date: 1970-01-01
Time: 186
duration: 185.973
OK
Connection closed by foreign host.