# AIFF Playback as PCM

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/aiff-playback-as-pcm/826263>\
**Category:** Plex Labs\
**Tags:** plexamp\
**Created:** [January 10, 2023, 6:34am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/aiff-playback-as-pcm/826263 "2023-01-10T06:34:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![elan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/elan/32/5_2.png) [@elan](https://forums.plex.tv/u/elan)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2023, 10:21pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/aiff-playback-as-pcm/826263/3 "2023-01-13T22:21:06Z")

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it shouldn’t make a difference where it is played from, but [Plexamp logs](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plexamp-debug-logs-how-to-extract-them/753427) taken right after playback would help. My suspicion is that you are missing media analysis on some of your files and thus it’s transcoding.

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