GoCubs;188278 Wrote: 
> I'm not sure if something recently changed in the firmware or in the
> actual Sirius streams, but the built-in WMA decoding in
> SB2/3/Transporters is now able to stream Sirius streams direct
> (disabling built-in wma is no longer required).  I have tested this
> using the release version of 6.5.1 (build 11206) on a Windows machine.
> 
> I "believe" I tried the 6.5.1 release previously and it did not work,
> so my guess is that something changed on Sirius' end that allowed the
> built-in decoding to handle the streams.
> 
> Soooo...  you can go ahead and re-enable the built-in wma decoding if
> you previously disabled it!  In my experience streams start up much
> quicker and for whatever reason visualization plugins are more
> responsive.  Synced players seem to work fine.  I'm not sure if the
> server settings for buffering/timeouts are followed with direct
> streaming, so if you experience more dropouts you can always go back
> and disable the built-in wma decoding.
> 
> I haven't yet investigated seeing if song title info can be pulled
> directly from the stream (would this occur automatically?).
> 
> -Greg

Great News!  Has anyone determined if the title info can be gotten from
the stream data?  That would be great...


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