Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Alternatives to spotify / spotty?

2022-01-31 Thread bpa
fatuousplatitudes wrote: > WANTING TO SWITCH FROM SPOTIFY TO TIDAL > I'm running LMS 8.2.1-etc in Windows11 and can't get Tidal to show up in > My Apps. > I have the Tidal plug-in (TIDAL v2.0) and the Tidal App from > mysqueezebox.com installed and configured for my Tidal HiFi a/c, but >

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Alternatives to spotify / spotty?

2022-01-29 Thread bpa
Julf wrote: > Tidal does not show up in my available plugins. Does it have to be > installed separately? No. It was in my inactive plugins section. It is included in standard LMS distribution. Have you turned off mysqueezebox integration ?

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Alternatives to spotify / spotty?

2022-01-28 Thread bpa
Julf wrote: > Hmm. Moral dilemma. Tidal still promotes the MQA scam, Quobuz promotes > "hi-res" with the utterly misleading (and erroneous) staircase pictures > a la Sony. OK, neither is killing people, but Don't pay for the MQA service and so not help the business case.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Alternatives to spotify / spotty?

2022-01-28 Thread bpa
Julf wrote: > Tidal is available, but I don't have any plugin. You need to enable Tidal in mysqueezebox and enter your credentials Then after a bit of a delay 30-60 mins, assuming Tidal plugin has been installed (TIDAL v2.0) , menu item will appear under My Apps.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Tidal stutter using LMS

2022-01-21 Thread bpa
Redrum wrote: > @bpa, I played this track in persistent with a receiver synced with a > touch. No issues. I then turned persistent to "normal", restarted LMS, > and played the track again, and again it was fine. > > I think you are right that we experienced different

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Tidal stutter using LMS

2022-01-21 Thread bpa
Redrum wrote: > I am wondering if we are hearing the same thing. I can't recall exact > tracks, but I have heard stutter on shorter tracks (say under 5min). > What I have heard can start immediately in the beginning of a song. I'm pretty sure it NOT hearing the same symptoms. The symptoms I

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Tidal stutter using LMS

2022-01-21 Thread bpa
Redrum wrote: > was this the track you had problems with? No. 2nd item in playlist "Classical at the movies" under Genres/Classical. Also on Hifi Trial so no access to MQA. 36968 I think the main issue is the duration - it is 17 mins long. "Persistent Mode" solves similar problems for

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Tidal stutter using LMS

2022-01-21 Thread bpa
Repeated test this morning. The Rhapsody in Blue track consistently had problems on DAC32 using LMS on CORE32, no problem with DAC32 with LMS on Ubuntu - LMS 8.2.1 version. Problems often started after about 5 min. No problems on CORE32 after Settings/Network/Streaming mode for HTTP(S) set to

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Tidal stutter using LMS

2022-01-20 Thread bpa
bpa wrote: > Then tested with recent 8.3.0 on Ubuntu - same track - no issue with > Receiver or Muse. If the issues was only compression, this shouldn't be > the case. > > I'll try to test with 8.2.* on Ubuntu. Test of Muse & receiver with 8.2.1 on Ubuntu - no pro

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Tidal stutter using LMS

2022-01-20 Thread bpa
I've just been testing Tidal Flac with new Muse speaker on an CORE32 8.2.0 system (default File Types settings) and I got jumps and other issues with a track (Rhapsody in Blue 17min). Jumps and funny silent loop 45 sec before end. Problems were reproducible (i.e. no clean playback of track)

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Uart RaspPi

2022-01-15 Thread bpa
PaulH wrote: > To summarize (with the knowledge I have) , external communication it's > not so easy as I thought :-( > > No issue for metadatas output. > > The only issue I founded to control the player is using the > SqueezeButtonPi. Instead buttons I could connect it to digital outputs >

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Accuradio Plugin 1.0

2022-01-15 Thread bpa
kidstypike wrote: > Thanks bpa, working here no problem. Good to know. Quality isn't great but it's free. I think the number after the title is the number of items in the playlist which are served up at random in groups of 32. I'm not how well the lists are managed. The "Nordic Fo

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Uart RaspPi

2022-01-15 Thread bpa
bpa wrote: > i* a serial server (e.g. nc601b type) - probably works but only if > device is supported by PCP kernel but may need an extension for it. > Still would need code on Arduino to login and issue CLI commands - same > as my earlier suggestion After looking at LMS CLI co

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Uart RaspPi

2022-01-15 Thread bpa
PaulH wrote: > I'm ok with C but not with Linux. if you can do C - python P erl , bash etc. is just a bit of reading. > PCP is perfect for me. Restart perfectly after power supply failure, > easy to use and efficient! Limited. I reckon if you could build *socat* for PCP a single command line

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Uart RaspPi

2022-01-15 Thread bpa
PaulH wrote: > I hope I have made myself clearer. I should have started there! Much clearer. I don't know about PCP and as you are doing development, I'd start with LMS on a full Raspbian/Max2play system to have full flexibility rather than cut down piCore. Once you have a workign system, then

[SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Accuradio Plugin 1.0

2022-01-15 Thread bpa
"Additional Repositories" section. http://bpa-code.github.io/bpaplugins/test-accuradio.xml 3. Then check the box for Accuradio in the Accuradio V1.* Plugin repo" section. 4. Restart LMS when prompted. A purple Accuradio icon should appear in Radio or

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Uart RaspPi

2022-01-15 Thread bpa
PaulH wrote: > 36836 > > You are right it's to control the Logitech Transporter (I never saw this > unit) > > > Otherwise I'm not able to write any program on Linux :-(. Maybe I can > use an RS232 -> IP converter. It's probably working to send any basic > commands (play, stop,). For

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Uart RaspPi

2022-01-15 Thread bpa
PaulH wrote: > I discovered that there is a RS232 plugin in the LMS plugin > But I didn't find any documentation. > Could this do the trick? IIRC = No. I think it was about control of amps - LMS to device - you want a device tpo LMS. Look at the readsq.py application - it deal with CLI

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Uart RaspPi

2022-01-14 Thread bpa
PaulH wrote: > I founded this thread about connecting an HD44780 LCD display to show > metadatas. if we could redirect the datas into the UART instead of > LCD... > https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?101269-piCorePlayer-%A32-LCD IIRC the LCD display is done using a small python

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Uart RaspPi

2022-01-14 Thread bpa
I don't know specific about Pi but generally serial on Linux To use a serial interface on a Linux box - 2 option. 1. Dumb async terminals mode tty. 2. SLIP - TCP/IP over a serial link. I think dumb terminal would be simplest. Serial line could be setup so user could then login with a

[SlimDevices: Plugins] Testers - Accuradio LMS plugin

2022-01-10 Thread bpa
. Repository for plugin. http://bpa-code.github.io/bpaplugins/test-accuradio.xml +---+ |Filename: Movie.pm | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=36748

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce : BBC Sounds Plugin

2022-01-10 Thread bpa
beneix wrote: > Yes, I have noticed... If using a VPN, do both the server _and_ clients > need to go through the VPN, or just the server? Streams from the BBCSounds plugin use DASH format and so I think only the server needs to be in VPN as DASH streams are not played directly by players. If

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce : BBC Sounds Plugin

2022-01-10 Thread bpa
beneix wrote: > Great app! > > When using this app, do BBC serve different streams depending on your > location? I am outside the UK and getting a 96kbps CBR stream on Radio > 3. Is this what people in the UK also get? Besidses slower speeds for non UK users. Some programs/stations are not

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Jivelite VU and Spectrum Analyser displays

2021-12-31 Thread bpa
Bscott wrote: > Here are some of the logs for picorePlayer using Dacmagic that seemed > most pertinent. Apologize for the long post. Also, I am a newb to > squeezelite and picoreplayer, so please excuse my ignorance. Everything but the log output from squeezelite. I don't know PCP so I'm

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Jivelite VU and Spectrum Analyser displays

2021-12-31 Thread bpa
Bscott wrote: > Yup, same for Dacmagic. No volume control. Are there any messages logged (squeezelite output not LMS server) when squeezelite start ? Looking at code - if Alsa mixer init fails - it will log an error that it will revert to s/w volume control.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Jivelite VU and Spectrum Analyser displays

2021-12-31 Thread bpa
slartibartfast wrote: > I don't remember the VU meters amplitude changing with volume level in > Squeezelite. Same with VU meters on the Touch. I don't use displays and its been a long time since I looked at the source code. I always thought "VU" stood for Volume Units and when I used tape

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Jivelite VU and Spectrum Analyser displays

2021-12-30 Thread bpa
Bscott wrote: > Yup, same for Dacmagic. No volume control. It may be worth looking at squeezelite to see if this absence of Volume control results in no FFT processing of output data bpa's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Jivelite VU and Spectrum Analyser displays

2021-12-30 Thread bpa
Bscott wrote: > Overall though, it seems weird that VU Meter is working off the output > signal. Shouldn't it be based on the input and not change based on > volume level? IIRC squeezelite analyses the PCM sample (i.e. after decoding audio and applying any gain settings) that are about to be

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Jivelite VU and Spectrum Analyser displays

2021-12-30 Thread bpa
Bscott wrote: > > numid=1,iface=MIXER,name='Headphone Playback Volume' > ; type=INTEGER,access=rw---R--,values=1,min=-10239,max=400,step=0 > : values=400 > | dBscale-min=-102.39dB,step=0.01dB,mute=1 > > Very strange volume range min is -10239 and max 400 !! I wonder if squeezelite is

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Jivelite VU and Spectrum Analyser displays

2021-12-30 Thread bpa
The -V will use the ALSA controls but not all USB devices have lots of controls - some may not even have a volume (i.e. device just converts PCM to audio - volume control is done on PCM samples not by USB device) To check whether the USB DAC present any control use the amixer command . Example

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: CDplayer plugin

2021-12-18 Thread bpa
cubii wrote: > Hi bpa, > I found time to check this. Still have the sd cards laying around, so i > can check logs or else, if it helps: > > 1. Max2play: time to switch from one track to next track: 5-6 sec. > Picore 7: ca 30 sec. > Picore 8: ca 30 sec. same > > 2.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: iHeartRadio to play US live iHeart radio stations

2021-12-13 Thread bpa
Example of my WebGui - no metadata showing from other URLs 36437 +---+ |Filename: iHeart13Dec21.png| |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=36437|

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: iHeartRadio to play US live iHeart radio stations

2021-12-13 Thread bpa
yeomanspc wrote: > First off, big thank you for all your work continuing to keep the > Squeeze environment current over the years - it seems like you have > supported additional features for longer than Logitech supported the > original product. > > The screen shot was from IPeng. > > > > >

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: iHeartRadio to play US live iHeart radio stations

2021-12-13 Thread bpa
yeomanspc wrote: > [image: > https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20211213/5f0c83cb406c25aea85e529a51cfb901.jpg] How & where is this screenshot taken ? It is a snapshot of the HLS m3u8 chunk Playlist (i.e. usually 10 sec segments but in this case zero secs ! ) and AFAIK should not be made visible

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: iHeartRadio to play US live iHeart radio stations

2021-12-13 Thread bpa
I've just done a quick test on Z100. iHeart ad stuff is a mess. I get "adContext" only in thr HLS EXTINF - nothing in the ID3 tags. No "song_spot" stuff so no flags. I get no "adContext" displayed on WebUI or Material. "adContext" seems to be another way of inserting ads. Code:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: iHeartRadio to play US live iHeart radio stations

2021-12-13 Thread bpa
yeomanspc wrote: > Hi, > I have a few server setups. Main ones are QNAP running LMS 8.3. I also > have an Odroid U2 (like a pi) running Max2play 211022 - this is running > LMS 8.2 (can’t seem to get it to install8.3). Last week this was on > 7.9.4. The players are Squeezebox classic (3?) and

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: iHeartRadio to play US live iHeart radio stations

2021-12-12 Thread bpa
yeomanspc wrote: > Use iHeart plugin a lot. Mostly to older squeezeboxes. When playing a > track it correctly parses the track name and artist and in between it > shows the radio station but when playing ads I get all the “adcontext” > data scrolling across the display (listening to z100 NY).

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: iHeartRadio to play US live iHeart radio stations

2021-12-12 Thread bpa
Type "T" is not reserved for station title but text such as the ad company name Code: #EXTINF:10,title="International Diamond Center",artist="International Diamond Center",url="song_spot=\\"T\\" MediaBaseId=\\"0\\" itunesTrackId=\\"0\\" amgTrackId=\\"-1\\"

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: iHeartRadio to play US live iHeart radio stations

2021-12-12 Thread bpa
I thought EXTINF was the source of the metadata being displayed when playing HLS stream - turns out the data is in MPEG2/AAC embedded ID3 tags The TIT2 and TPE1 tags have artist and track title but the ICY and EXTINT metadata "string" is found in the TXXX and WXXX tags. I haven't found ads on

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: iHeartRadio to play US live iHeart radio stations

2021-12-12 Thread bpa
I can only to quick tests every so often at the moment, I haven;t heard an "ad" - I wonder if ads are mainly "prime-time" (i.e. not sunday afternoon/evening). As I havn't captured an ad in HLS EXTINF yet, I'm tryin a few other station at random to see if ads are more prevalent.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: iHeartRadio to play US live iHeart radio stations

2021-12-12 Thread bpa
New song spot type "T" - looks like a station title burst Code: #EXTINF:10,title="Z100",artist="NY\'s #1 Hit Music Station",url="song_spot=\\"T\\" MediaBaseId=\\"0\\" itunesTrackId=\\"0\\" amgTrackId=\\"0\\" amgArtistId=\\"0\\" TAID=\\"0\\" TPID=\\"0\\"

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: iHeartRadio to play US live iHeart radio stations

2021-12-12 Thread bpa
Paul Webster wrote: > Now the format of their ICY metadata has changed! > > e.g. > > Code: > > > StreamTitle='title="SOMETHING JUST LIKE THIS",artist="Chainsmokers / Coldplay",url="song_spot="F" MediaBaseId="0" itunesTrackId="0" amgTrackId="-1" amgArtistId="0"

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: iHeartRadio to play US live iHeart radio stations

2021-12-12 Thread bpa
With HLS there are multiple places to provide metadata. For Z100, track data seems to be provided into the HLS playlist - and I think it is easy to spot any title starting with *text="Spot Block End"* . As it looks like a small mod, I'll try to get around to updating PlayHLSv2 but time at the

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: iHeartRadio to play US live iHeart radio stations

2021-12-12 Thread bpa
Paul Webster wrote: > My trick is working for http streaming … but … when I have been trying > it out over the last hour or so they seem to have stopped putting song > details into the ICY metadata but are putting the ad breaks in there. > A bit annoying. > I’ll leave it running for a few more

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: iHeartRadio to play US live iHeart radio stations

2021-12-12 Thread bpa
Paul Webster wrote: > > I left it running over breakfast and then reviewed the logs ... and it > caught one > > > Code: > > [21-12-12 08:23:22.6534] Slim::Player::Protocols::HTTP::parseMetadata (298) Icy metadata received:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: iHeartRadio to play US live iHeart radio stations

2021-12-12 Thread bpa
yeomanspc wrote: > Use iHeart plugin a lot. Mostly to older squeezeboxes. When playing a > track it correctly parses the track name and artist and in between it > shows the radio station but when playing ads I get all the > adcontext data scrolling across the display (listening to > z100

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: RadioNet plugin to enable playing stream from the radio.net service

2021-11-08 Thread bpa
Jeff07971 wrote: > I have added the Sourceforge repo to my plugins page. It's not necessary 2.1 was available from standard LMS 3rd parties yesterday. The sourceforge delay quirk varies - it's best not to save the sourceforge repo in your LMS in case the repo is moved. If a Favorite was

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Radio Now Playing plugin

2021-11-07 Thread bpa
slartibartfast wrote: > I just tried there API from the command line and didn't see a time > difference. Originally I saw the difference with a browser - then I repeated from a command line and saw no difference - odd but maybe some sort of caching. Lisbon is also on same TZ as Dublin &

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Radio Now Playing plugin

2021-11-07 Thread bpa
Only quickly looking at the data from worldtimeapi.org - in their datetime filed - there is a difference of 4 minutes between Dublin and London !! Definitely something is wrong with worldtimeapi.org bpa's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: RadioNet plugin to enable playing stream from the radio.net service

2021-11-06 Thread bpa
staresy wrote: > OK, thanks, downloaded direct from github, all OK, working again, thanks > :D If you are using V1. Favorites - you should update them so that the dependency on a working plugin is broken. bpa's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: RadioNet plugin to enable playing stream from the radio.net service

2021-11-06 Thread bpa
staresy wrote: > No sign of this yet, is there a problem with the repository? Yes and No - mainly a sourceforge issue. I upload my repository XML to sourceforge.net (plugins ZIP etc are hosted in github) but for reliable downloads the LMS 3rd party extension specifically loads from the Cologne

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: RadioNet plugin to enable playing stream from the radio.net service

2021-11-05 Thread bpa
V2.1 should become available within a few hours when LMS repository is updated. The only change to plugin is a fix to make plugin work again after change to Radio.net website. V1.* Favorites depend on an operational RadioNet plugin to deliver the latest URLs as a playlist. V1.* Favorites also

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: RadioNet plugin to enable playing stream from the radio.net service

2021-11-03 Thread bpa
I think I have fixed the issue but I need to do some more testing tomorrow. I think there may be an additional "Favorites" issue if they are V1 Favorites. If so they should be replaced by Favorites created from V2 as V1 Favorites have problems on some players.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: RadioNet plugin to enable playing stream from the radio.net service

2021-11-03 Thread bpa
Jeff07971 wrote: > My Radionet favourites stopped playing last night. > . > . > . > > Does anyone have any ideas ? The URLs are grabbed from webpages not a proper API (it was deprecated) so if web page format changes - the URLs can't be found. It has happened that a web page change is in

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] What (if anything) is the latest word on AccuRadio?

2021-11-01 Thread bpa
Paul Webster wrote: > If someone wants to try to build a plugin they could might get some > inspiration (URLs at least) from > https://github.com/chadparker/accuradio > > (I have not tried it) That plugin hasn't been updated in 8 years but it looks to be the similar API as a more recent Kodi

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] What (if anything) is the latest word on AccuRadio?

2021-11-01 Thread bpa
djringjr wrote: > So is there a plug in for Accuradio? On mysqueezebox.com there is a App for Accuradio but IIRC it hasn't been working for years. AFAIK There is no working LMS plugin for Accuradio. bpa's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Annouce: SB Player, a software Squeezebox player app for Android.

2021-10-26 Thread bpa
kidstypike wrote: > Seeing the same - Unsupported sample rate. Just to understand setup what is the BBC Sounds setting Code: Hide the audio sample rate from LMS. This can help with a specific transcoding issue on devices that can't natively support 48000

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Annouce: SB Player, a software Squeezebox player app for Android.

2021-10-26 Thread bpa
hopeful wrote: > Not sure if this is a BBC Sounds problem or an SBPlayer one? > With SBPlayer selected as the player in LMS, nothing will play from the > BBC Sounds plugin. Can the SBplayer play other station and audio files OK ? In particular can the player play a AAC internet stream such as

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce - Programme info plugin for RTE Ireland

2021-10-25 Thread bpa
Paul Webster wrote: > Some months ago RTE removed the API that I was using to collect the > programme data. > I've found another one to use - although it lacks the programme > description (for now at least). > > So I've moved the functionality of this plugin over to my Radio Now > Playing

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: CDplayer plugin

2021-10-10 Thread bpa
cubii wrote: > Thanks for the answer, > > checked it today, but couldnt find a fast solution. With check > everything again, when i have time. > > One correction: The os is picoreplayer, not picore, > Can you at least confirm 1. what is the time difference between max2play vs pcp -

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: CDplayer plugin

2021-10-09 Thread bpa
Looking at logs there are many strange thisg - not CDplayer associated. 1. Player seems to be "discovered" very often - this coudl imply players are dropping off the network. Perhaps the delay is LMS waiting for a player - not CDplayer being slow. Many many instances of following. Code:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: CDplayer plugin

2021-10-09 Thread bpa
cubii wrote: > Hi @all and bpa! > > I installed the updated plugin on my fresh installed picore (raspi 3, > only server) and have a usb CD-rom attached. > It works, but realy sluggish. What i mean is, that if i select the > plugin CDPlayer, it takes 5 seconds to check the c

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: RadioNet plugin to enable playing stream from the radio.net service

2021-09-28 Thread bpa
3rd party extensions has been updated & V2.0 is now available. bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111951

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: RadioNet plugin to enable playing stream from the radio.net service

2021-09-28 Thread bpa
Rasputin_GY wrote: > can't wait :) You may be disappointed, it's mainly cosmetic and internal changes to help maintenance - there are no new stations listed. AFAICT The repo should have been updated - not sure why it hasn't happened.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: RadioNet plugin to enable playing stream from the radio.net service

2021-09-27 Thread bpa
V2.0 of RadioNet plugin (will be available as soon as plugins list is refreshed). CHANGES * fix the issue of favorites & missing logos. * add top level menus to align closer to web site * added short list of topics, genres and countries with "All" at a lower level. * add new Radionet domains

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Raspberry Pi Squeezelite not honoring WaveInput sample rate

2021-09-15 Thread bpa
hafnpin wrote: > Changing --compression-level-0 to --compression-level-8 improved the > sound but increased the delay. I can live with this. Sounds much better. That makes little sense - expectation bias ? Flac is lossless - so audio stream output from flac is identical regardless of

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Raspberry Pi Squeezelite not honoring WaveInput sample rate

2021-09-15 Thread bpa
hafnpin wrote: > Thanks BPA. Changing the custom-convert.conf file fixed the sample rate > on the Pi. Any advice on how to optimize the sound quality? Even after > lowering the sound and stereo mix levels the sound sounds a bit canny. > Do you know if a new sound card would hel

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Raspberry Pi Squeezelite not honoring WaveInput sample rate

2021-09-15 Thread bpa
The conf file entry is "wavin pcm" that is the plugin supplies a PCM stream. PCM stream has no header and there is nothing in the PCM sample which provides the format (unlike for example Flac or MP3) so LMS does not know from the stream what is the sample format and so LMS assumes CD (44.1kHz

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: RadioNet plugin to enable playing stream from the radio.net service

2021-09-08 Thread bpa
philchillbill wrote: > Good idea. Easier to recognise across URL-string variations. > > I notice a lot of inconsistencies in the data-structure returned via > jsonrpc.js related to favorites. If I do ["favorites", "items", 0, 300, > "want_url:1", "item_id:8"] then the returned JSON is > LMS

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: RadioNet plugin to enable playing stream from the radio.net service

2021-09-08 Thread bpa
philchillbill wrote: > I've modified my code to check for radio.net appearing in the URL of the > favorite. If it matches, the skill plays that favorite via the > playlist-menu construct (and apparently the plugin) rather than directly > by URL. Note that playing favorites this way will be

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: RadioNet plugin to enable playing stream from the radio.net service

2021-09-08 Thread bpa
staresy wrote: > Thanks bpa and Phil for looking at this. I think the best option as it's > a bit of a corner case, is for me to favourite the "now playing" stream > and modify the favorites.opml file to point to the radionet artwork for > the required sta

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: RadioNet plugin to enable playing stream from the radio.net service

2021-09-08 Thread bpa
If you look at the Favorite opml - you'll see that the radio.net URL in the Favorites has to be processed by the RadioNet parser specified in the Favorites entry. Just playing it like "Tune-in URL" won't work. philchillbill wrote: > > "url": "https://www.radio.net/s/1fmreggaetrade;, >

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: RadioNet plugin to enable playing stream from the radio.net service

2021-09-08 Thread bpa
staresy wrote: > OK, I've done a bit of experimenting, and it works, nearly... Similar issues came up a few months ago. I did the same a few months ago and went through the option and documented the same in a post in a thread somewhere > So is it possible either for Mediaserver to handle the

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: RadioNet plugin to enable playing stream from the radio.net service

2021-09-07 Thread bpa
staresy wrote: > Ahh, yes, that does ring a bell. When I get back to my LMS later I'll > have a play to see what options do what. probably for MediaServer - save the Favorite while it is playing. I'd hope to eliminate this issue sometime - one way or another - but for the moment saving the

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: RadioNet plugin to enable playing stream from the radio.net service

2021-09-07 Thread bpa
staresy wrote: > Hi bpa, > v1.6 works for me, and radionet stations play for me now, thanks. > > However, I've noticed a peculiarity when calling radionet stations > stored as favourites via the Mediaserver Alexa smart skill. All the > radionet favourites fail to pla

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: RadioNet plugin to enable playing stream from the radio.net service

2021-09-07 Thread bpa
V1.6 should now be available to fix the latest problem. bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111951

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: RadioNet plugin to enable playing stream from the radio.net service

2021-09-06 Thread bpa
beneix wrote: > Having the exact same issue. Tried to uninstall and reinstall the > plugin, but that made no difference. I'm back from vacation and had a chance to look at issue. The problem is a change to Radionet website (i.e. the canonical domain name has varied between adding/removing

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: RadioNet plugin to enable playing stream from the radio.net service

2021-09-03 Thread bpa
I'm on vacation and can't look at this issue. I'll look at it on return next week. bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: RadioNet plugin to enable playing stream from the radio.net service

2021-08-28 Thread bpa
RadioNet V1.5 is now available to fix the problem that broke V1.4. bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111951

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: RadioNet plugin to enable playing stream from the radio.net service

2021-08-26 Thread bpa
frankd wrote: > I just realized that I cannot play any of the stations which are listed > by the plugin (e.g. top stations or using the search function). > from the log file: > [21-08-26 20:29:28.7274] Slim::Control::XMLBrowser::_cliQuery_error > (1684) Error: While retrieving

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce : BBC Sounds Plugin

2021-08-13 Thread bpa
expectingtofly wrote: > Ah, gosh, that does explain it. I did ask that question of them a > while back > https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?114103-CORE32-Energy-Efficient-LMS-Music-Server=1013935=1#post1013935 > . What you are experiencing does appear to be contrary to what they

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce : BBC Sounds Plugin

2021-08-13 Thread bpa
expectingtofly wrote: > That is odd, works fine for me, and to be honest I can't see a reason > for that behaviour. That change did only come in the most recent > version 2.19. Please can you check if you are running that version. If > you are, please can you PM me a bbc sounds debug log

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce : BBC Sounds Plugin

2021-08-12 Thread bpa
After playing a short section directly with sounds://_m000y5fp_m000y5fq_0 I checked and Sounds still showed sounds://_m000y5fp_m000y5fq_1680 But after a long delay (i'm guessing an update sent to BBC or cache expiry) - the link now shows sounds://_m000y5fp_m000y5fq_18 Interesting on a

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce : BBC Sounds Plugin

2021-08-12 Thread bpa
expectingtofly wrote: > Yes, you can create your own sounds url, the last part of the url is the > resume point. So for the latest "Unbelievable Truth" the url (with a > resume point) will be something like sounds://_m000ykp1_m000ykp3_1565 > > You can change it to

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce : BBC Sounds Plugin

2021-08-12 Thread bpa
expectingtofly wrote: > Hmmm, I'm having trouble recreating this. Although I've never seen the > "0 minutes left", which is probably the problem. I think I set the player to "sleep at end of song" (in case I fell asleep before end) so perhaps LMS shut the connection down within say 5 seconds

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce : BBC Sounds Plugin

2021-08-12 Thread bpa
It seems to be a similar problem to the one in post 888 https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?113045-Announce-BBC-Sounds-Plugin=1027528=1#post1027528 Maybe a boundary issue with zero minutes left. Is it possible to disable the BBC resume fuictionality ? even just to test.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce : BBC Sounds Plugin

2021-08-12 Thread bpa
expectingtofly wrote: > You can rewind to the beginning by short pressing on rewind on the boom. > Or by going to a seek point using any controller e.g. material skin. > (although its a bit odd that it said 0 minutes left) Doesn't work. When I select the program and get the display "Play - 0

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce : BBC Sounds Plugin

2021-08-12 Thread bpa
I'm missing something on how to control "remembered" programs from a Boom. >From a Boom. I'm trying to re-play a "Listen again" program. I fell asleep when playing it the first time and it played through. Now when I try to play it again but Boom tells me "play - 0 mins left" and I cannot

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Picore - Squeezelite 32 bit length padding

2021-08-09 Thread bpa
oshcar wrote: > i got an answer the other day saying the extra zeroes dont matter > because there is no information within them > the information not present is voltage ? I think the answer said the zeroes were added for resolution when doing calculations. They do not add information (e.g. do

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Picore - Squeezelite 32 bit length padding

2021-08-07 Thread bpa
Your last two posts are minimal - don't understand, You need to get logging working. If your command lines parameters are wrong - squeezelite may not show an error, may not stop and you may not get sound. Logging will show where you are going wrong. PCP is being used by many people who are

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Picore - Squeezelite 32 bit length padding

2021-08-07 Thread bpa
oshcar wrote: > well after your last comment about cat not really showing you what is > going on -- i`m not sure > but > ALSA f =16 This doesn;t seem right. I'd expect forcing a format is done from the squeezelite command line using the "-a" - the alternative might be changing the alsa

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Picore - Squeezelite 32 bit length padding

2021-08-07 Thread bpa
Example of trying to force 24 input on a DAC using "hw" which does not support 24 Squeezelite can't open the device each time it tries, but it keep trying and doesn't stop - no indication of error. Logging is necessary. Code: $ ./alsacap -d hw:system,0 ***

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Picore - Squeezelite 32 bit length padding

2021-08-07 Thread bpa
oshcar wrote: > but the 5102 drivers for the various pi dacs never work for me on any > software i have tried when i try to force 16bit -- no sound How are you forcing 16 bit ? bpa's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Picore - Squeezelite 32 bit length padding

2021-08-07 Thread bpa
oshcar wrote: > "Interesting next log - as it show something I didn't expect. > Same device, similar test (2nd stream is 44.1Khz) only this time using > the "hw" - device is opened with S16_LE but re-oppend with S32_LE later. > I'm not sure why squeezelite has changed device but shows you need

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Picore - Squeezelite 32 bit length padding

2021-08-07 Thread bpa
oshcar wrote: > ok bpa > > "Give specific exaplanations of the test "i never get 16bit output > unless i force with f=16 ( Rpi driver ) " so thatit can be understood." > > just booted up with Rpi driver -- hw:sendrpi output setting > > everyt

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Picore - Squeezelite 32 bit length padding

2021-08-07 Thread bpa
oshcar wrote: > quote "It doesn't but if you have to perform an operation on 16 bit > sample (e.g. gain for volume adjust) and then any 16 bit operations > usually ends up with a 32 bit answer" > i dont want to perform any software operations > so why do i have to pad to 32 bit ? In case

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Picore - Squeezelite 32 bit length padding

2021-08-07 Thread bpa
oshcar wrote: > "improve sound quality" -- i have no desire to argue this. My potion Is I think you want avoid degradation rather than actively "improve signal" > dont know what LSB is LSB = Least Significant Bits To convert a 16 bit auidio sample to a 24 bit audio sample you add 8 zeroes

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Picore - Squeezelite 32 bit length padding

2021-08-07 Thread bpa
oshcar wrote: > I am just trying to improve sound quality. something about picore sound > has never sat right with me. i have played around with the bit length > padding alot in other software and have never liked padding 16bit source > material to 32 bit. when i suspected that picore was

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Picore - Squeezelite 32 bit length padding

2021-08-07 Thread bpa
oshcar wrote: > thx Greg > > at the very least it should be possible to go into the relevant piece of > code and change a "32" to "24", so the software runs the same only with > 24bit length instead of 32. > I understand this may complicate SOX implementation -- for example : > 28bit precision

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] SB_EXTRA_ARGS Error

2021-07-30 Thread bpa
dror_israel wrote: > > > Code: > > SB_EXTRA_ARGS=-C 10 > > > Look carefully the double quotes - they are slanted - they must be vertical ones. " vs bpa's Profile:

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