A real Squeezebox hardware player which can play WMA natively has none of these problems and you'll be happy with a Radio. In fact for BBC you should be using the AAC streams (i.e. deselect WMA) as it will also show BBC iPlayer art and better quality audio.
There are two sorts of software players that can be used with SBS * A Squeezebox emulator such as Softsqueeze or Squeezeplay * an ordinary media streamer such as WinAmp, Amarok, VLC etc which play the stream.mp3 (which is by definition MP3 only) - this is not a good demonstration of SBS as there are buffer delays when changing. The best demonstrator for radio would be Squeezeplay but the PC based Squeezeplay is still in beta and should be found in the "nightly" directory but for some reason recent builds for Linux are not available. http://downloads.slimdevices.com/nightly/?ver=7.4 The Squeezebox emulators and stream.mp3 both need to transcode WMA into FLAC or MP3 respectively since neither can play WMA streams. On Windows the transcoding support is provided by libraries provided by MS. On Linux the transcoding has to be provided by a 3rd party app such as mplayer. The AlienBBC plugin not only provides RealAudio support but also provides the WMA transcoding support - this explains why things stopped when you uninstalled AlienBBC. -- bpa ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71855 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
