sachadog wrote: > Hello Paul, > > Yes I do have it ticked. > > The moment I use Flow, the system comes to a grinding halt. If Flow > isn't used, I get individual tracks and artwork and artist as it should > be. > > I've even deleted LMS and re-installed a clean download, updated my > plug-ins, but still the moment Flow is started, the music stops. > > My home Wi-Fi signals are very strong. I have four mesh discs with no > blackspots in the house. My Cambridge Audio player is indicating > maximum signal being received. > > It all seems to track back to the Flow setting. I have tried the system > playing to wireless speakers (Yamaha). Philippe's plug-in finds them > with ease. Again, they play individual tracks of music, but once Flow > is used, the music stops. > > I've tried my Roberts Radios, which are internet capable. They too > receive individual music tracks, but come to a stop when Flow is used. > They show the artwork and artist etc, on their screens, but as soon as > flow is used, this become an unknown > > track, unknown artist and no artwork. > > If I change the setting in Flow to MP3, then "if" music plays, it plays > Flac tracks as MP3 without artwork or artist details, with just a ? on > the screen. That playback can be very flakey, stopping and starting > randomly. But take Flow out of the system > > and tracks play. However, that replay isn't always one track after > another. If the music stops at the end of a track, the next track > details may show on the screen, but not play. > > It's all very odd! > > Dave M.
Please bear with me for a few lines of comments - Flow mode works and in fact by design should be the most stable working mode because it avoid the transition between tracks which are a nightmare in UPnP. - Flow uses the most CPU because the audio potentially transcoded by LMS, then decoded by the bridge, then re-encoded by the bridge into flac or mp3. So that might explain difficulties if you have not enough CPU - Flow acts like a webradio and this is why metadata is difficult. There is one option for limited support of artist, title and artwork *if* the player supports the ICY protocol. If not, then you'll miss any metadata. So please check that metadata sending is activated *and* send ICY metadata is enabled as well. - In non-flow mode, if playback stops and the end of one track and does not move to the next track, then the UPnP track "chaining" is not working properly. It can be due to player not supporting gapless (see related option) - Now, for all that, at some point it becomes useless to discuss about it w/o logfiles. I do *not* need to have set "additional debugging" to anything else than "none" to start with, but I need these log file. - In addition, a copy of your config file helps LMS 8.1.x on Odroid-C4 - *SqueezeAMP!*, 5xRadio, 5xBoom, 2xDuet, 1xTouch, 1xSB3. Sonos PLAY:3, PLAY:5, Marantz NR1603, Foobar2000, ShairPortW, 2xChromecast Audio, Chromecast v1 and v2, Squeezelite on Pi, Yamaha WX-010, AppleTV 4, Airport Express, GGMM E5, RivaArena 1 & 3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ philippe_44's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17261 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103728 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
