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Old 01-01-2021, 09:59 AM   #20
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mylink's audio player i believe (at least the 2016) is based on some open source software that will play pretty much anything you'd expect non-proprietary players (without copy protection) to play. What they dont support is a wide range of metadata reading support.

So the system only white-lists based on filename extension the formats that it supports metadata for. But because it uses stupid filename matching and not mime/magic file format reading to determine the file data (like most good software would), you have the option of just renaming the files to circumvent the whitelist.

This means you can rename files to end in .mp3 even if it's not and it will play fine. I do this with all of my flac files. You dont get the meta data support, but i'll play flac files without metadata any day over mp3s if i'm playing over flash drive vs just streaming .

so tldr; if you test your file and it doesn't play, just rename it to .mp3 and test again and you may be surprised.
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