My Naim app does not allow me to "seek to time" on MP3 files playing through my NDX 671F (it works fine for AIFF files).
The app description lists:
"Play, pause, skip tracks and seek to time" as one of the features and does not say this is limited in anyway.
Is anyone else having this problem or am I doing something wrong?
Posted on: 28 January 2016 by Aleg
I think this could due to the fact that mp3 has a variable bitrate and AIFF has a constant bitrate.
With variable bitrate you never know where you are in time when you've read x kB.
while with constant bitrate you know that a position in time is after [(time in sec)*bitrate] kB . In that case you can position playback accurately.
cheers
Posted on: 28 January 2016 by gert
As a workaround you can use e.g. minimserver and let mp3 transcode to wav on the fly. This way the naim streamer is able to seek in such tracks. (Also it sounds better IMHO.) The only problem I still have is, that minimserver does not support the transcoding of ogg/vorbis, so this format is not seekable.
