Songs won't play on computer using Groove Music nor On my Astell & Kern SR25.

[pjlawall@comcast.net]

Hi, I recently bought the pro version of Vinyl Studio to Digitize my old record collection.

So far I seem to be working out how to record and save the songs on my hard drive. I am saving the files as FLAC. However, the files do not play on the Groove music player on my PC nor when I load them into my Astell & Kern SR25 player. The files are either not recognized or unplayable. However, on my PC the files play fine with Winamp.

I need to get this sorted before I spend a lot of time making recordings that won't play. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks  Pete

[Paul Sanders (AlpineSoft)]

Hi,

What sample rate and bit depth are you saving your *tracks* at, please?  Not all players support all formats, especially 20 bits per sample.

[pjlawall@comcast.net]

Hi Paul,

I think I left them at default, checking the settings, I find the sample rate is 44.1 kHz and the bit depth is 20.

Based on your comment I suppose I should try 16 bit, however the SR25 supports high resolution files and I would think it would handle 20 bits as well. After looking up the specs on the SR25, it supports up to 32 bit/384 kHz.

On further investigation, I found that the SR25 handles 8/16/24/32 bit rates, so 20 could be the problem.

Thanks

Pete

[pjlawall@comcast.net]

OK, I recorded another album using 24 bit and now the files play on both Groove Music and the SR25!

Thanks again for the quick help

Pete

[Paul Sanders (AlpineSoft)]

OK, thanks.

FYI, you don't need to re-record.  Just save your tracks as 24 bit.