)p(;679491 Wrote: > UPDATE: I embedded a cover for a flac album in the individual files and > it did also not show on the touch with whitebear. > UPDATED2: I embedded some mp3 and they work when embedded.Good news! This is > a very interesting observation! Thank you.
Obviously when JRMC is streaming MP3 files (mediated by Whitebear) to a Squeezeplayer, it is sending the original file, which includes the embedded native ID3v2 tags. And in such cases it seems SBS is able to parse the ID3v2 tags on the fly and update its player meta data including album art. But apparently when JRMC is streaming FLAC files (mediated by Whitebear) to a Squeezeplayer, something is going amiss. There could be two possible things going on: 1) JRMC may be transcoding the FLACs, and streaming them in PCM form to Whitebear, and then Whitebear may be trancoding them back to FLAC for SBS and the player. (I know this sounds odd. Don't ask.) But anyway in this case it would be no big surprise that the PCM file would have no metadata in it, and so meta data (including art) would/could not be supplied further to the player. or, 2) JRMC may be sending the FLACs as they are, including their embedded native FLAC tags. But perhaps SBS may not able to read the FLAC tags on the fly in the same way that it can read ID3v2 tags. As mentioned before, in LMS own UPnP/DLNA implementation they built in an internal special protocol handler within the plug-in that can handle both cases 1) and 2) -- but unfortunately I am not able to go down that road with Whitebear. However I think I may have found an alternate way for Whitebear to restore the missing meta data (including art) by using ICY tags. This should work at least for the case 1) and it might even work for case 2). However before I proceed with developing code, it would certainly help me to know which of case 1) or 2) is actually happening in your case. => Could you please turn on logging of "Http Server" in Whitebear, and record what happens when you do a "Play To" command from JRMC? )p(;679491 Wrote: > Also I have to investigate further but its seems like Whitebear won't > play files from jrmcs library that are on a shared drive accessed by a > shared drive letter. (I have some music in d:\music that is referenced > in the jrmc library as x:\ It works when I add it to the library as > \\SERVER\music\ )This sounds like a problem in JRMC, and not in Whitebear. > But again, if you do a log of "Http Server" in Whitebear for such a (failed) transaction, I may be able to say more about this after. -- AndrewFG Regards, AndrewFG Try out Whitebear. The middleware that joins the two worlds of: 1. UPnP/DLNA media clients and media players, and, 2. Squeezebox Server and Squeeze Players Download it for free here: http://www.whitebear.ch/mediaserver ------------------------------------------------------------------------ AndrewFG's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15838 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=90842 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
