mherger wrote: > > What exactly was improved with Spotify Ogg Direct streaming? Seeking > > improvements, or something else? > > Yes, native seeking. Previosly Spotty would switch to PCM when seeking, > > sometimes causing a change in volume level. Plus I believe previously > embedded non-standard meta data in the Ogg stream could cause glitches > in playback. > > > Also, is what you're calling Ogg Direct here, simply when File Types > is > > set to both "Prefer native format" and Spotty->"Ogg Vorbis" file type > is > > set to "spotty-x86_64" (or something other than Disabled, depending > on > > server platform)?? > > Yes. I called it this way because initially spotty would receive Ogg, > but always decode to PCM. With Ogg Direct it can send the Ogg data > directly to the player without decoding it to PCM (and re-encode it to > FLAC to save bandwidth etc.).
Nice improvements! I had disabled Spotty Ogg Vorbis because of the volume change from re-converting to PCM/FLAC. I've updated to this 4.5.0 and seeking is working very well. Thanks for this awesome Spotty plugin, Michael! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ rootee's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=70728 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=114726 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
