Cannot play flac files

[Z3NOX]

• Vanilla Music Version: 1.0.73
• Android Version: unofficial lineageOS 14.1 [Android 7.1.2]
• Phone vendor / model: Motorala G5
• Application was downloaded from:
  • [ ] Play Store
  • [x] F-Droid
  • [ ] Other (Nightly Build)
• Did this work in a previous version?
  • [ ] Yes
  • [ ] No
  • [x] NA / Don't know.

I scanned my music files stored on the mSD card. When I want to play a *.flac file from the library the file is said to be played back, the song appears in the playlist with its metadata but nothing happens. The timeline is frozen at 0:00. I can toggle the play/pause button but nothing happens there either.

Everything works well with mp3 and opus files though.

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To reproduce simply try to play the following file: flac.zip

Are any further information needed?

[adrian-bl]

Complain to the maintainer of your rom: we use androids media framework which seems to be broken in your rom.

(Disabling offloading may help)

[Z3NOX]

Thank you! With vlc the playback is working but I guess vlc is not using androids media framework?! What exactly do you mean by "disable offloading"?

[adrian-bl]

By default, android devices try to use special hardware to decode audio - it seems that this is broken on your device.

You can disable this by setting / adding

audio.offload.disable=true

to your build.prop (if you are root)