altruizine wrote: > Thanks a lot for responding -- and good to know I'm not the only one > with this problem. > > I tried thinking very hard what I might have changed in my system setup > before the problem started. The only relevant things I could come up > with are a Linux kernel upgrade, including an upgrade of the VirtualBox > kernel module. I'm running OpenSUSE 11.4 on a 64-bit AMD box and have > upgraded the distro kernel from the shipped 2.6.37.6 to 3.3.6 to fix a > USB issue. > > Some other observations: > > Spotifyd seems to encode the decrypted stream to FLAC. Theorizing that > my Wifi does not have the bandwidth to stream FLAC through my house, I > tried playing various other FLAC content from my library to various > synchronized players -- without any problem. > > I also tried limiting the stream bandwidth of my players in their > respective settings pages. This recodes my own FLAC content to MP3 > using the system's Lame installation. But in case of the Spotify > content, something strange happens, probably uncovering another bug: It > looks like Spotifyd dutifully decodes the stream to PCM, thinking it > will be reencoded with Lame. However, this last step does happen: Lame > is not started, and instead it looks like the PCM is streamed to the > clients. > > Does any of this ring a bell with you?
With the plugin, the server does not touch the audio, so setting bitrate limiting for a player won't make any difference. It will stream as flac or pcm depending on what options you have set for the Spotify file type. I'd suggest retrying the self test - does it show the both streaming tests working ok and is it using the same player as you have the problem with (it is random which player it uses, so maybe turn the others off). At present your debugs show a problem with streaming - its really only the self test which breaks the streaming into two stages and helps assess if this is a problem getting to the server or getting to the player. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Triode's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97851 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
