d6jg wrote: > Hang on fellas. > > The only reason that this has reared its head is me testing > phillchillbill's MediaSever skill for Alexa. This provides two modes of > operation 1) as a controller for existing players of whatever type and > 2) as a player in its own right where it uses stream.mp3. > > As far as 1) is concerned there is no issue with playing Tidal, Qobuz > etc although voice control needs perfecting. > > It is 2) that generates the issue but we already know that Alexa Echo > devices are (in the main) HD capable from Amazon Music HD however at > present there is no documentation on how a developer can utilise that > capablity but surely that must only be a question of time? > > If so is it even worth trying to transcode a remote stream for this > single use case which could go away very quickly.
With regard to it being 'a question of time': Amazon took a year to make certain Smart Home functionality that was available to en-US skills also available across the pond for en-GB. Why? Who knows. They may see it as a competitive advantage that only Amazon HD is capable of FLAC and may want to block other streaming providers while they sell HD subscriptions. So I'd love to be wrong, but /stream.mp3 may be with us for longer than you'd like... Just sayin' ------------------------------------------------------------------------ philchillbill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=68920 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97146 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
