Uniti2 cannot play FLAC via Fritzbox NAS

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Hi all,

an additional problem to my other UPnP issue. Looking for solutions! Eternal appreciation guaranteed!

Situation: I own a Uniti2 hardwired via ethernet / tested also on wifi. I have set up my music collection drive as NAS via my Fritzbox router. I want to play losless files on that harddrive using UPnP.

Problem: While the Uniti2 recognizes the harddrive, shows the files etc. it will not play FLAC or WAV or any other losless formats - “Can’t Play - Unsupported File Format”.
It plays MP3s of that same NAS harddrive just fine. It alsodoes play the FLAC files when I use the Uniti2’s USB input to connect the drive directly.

Any ideas? I think others here have successfully used their Fritzbox in a similar scenario? Thinking of @robert_h and

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At a guess, I’d say the media server / upnp in the Fritzbox can’t handle the file format.

Well, according to here, flac is supported.
https://en.avm.de/service/knowledge-base/dok/FRITZ-Box-7590/1074_File-formats-supported-by-the-media-server/

I don’t use the Fritz box for anything other than basic adsl router/dhcp functions.

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Thank you, Robert! That was my first thought, too, but I also saw that webpage AND my VLC player was able to play the formats from that NAS just fine.

Thinking it might be a formatting issue? Others report that unplugging the harddrive several times (not Fritzbox but similar issue with FLACs via NAS) has helped…

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Have you tried contacting Fritzbox support with details of your model, explain your issue and seek advice.

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Thank you, @Paul_C . Not yet. I have forever just found the solution / problem (after thinking it has to do with formatting as suggested in this thread). But the solution was different:

The Fritzbox created “shadow files” without any info but the same filename for each song. To find the real FLACs I needed to scroll down quite a bit. But they are all there and sounds great.

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Great you got sorted.
There is nothing special about the flac files so initially difficult to see what your issue was.