Can you play the files with another player, like audacity or whatever other free app will play hirez files on the computer? foobar maybe? That will verify your ripper and media files are OK. You don't have to hear them, just see if they open and play visually. Then try kicking them off manually using Squeezecenter transport controls. If doesn't work, try ripping to WAV instead. If that works, then see if your flac decoding is set to happen at the TP or Squeezecenter. If it is set to convert at the TP, you might try converting at the PC and streaming WAV to it. My Squeezebox prefers to do the converting itself, but it might be an issue with high rez for some reason. You might need hard wired ethernet to avoid dropouts with that much data, don't know on that one, but it's a lot more data. But you should hear something even if it does dropout.