One of my solutions to get the sound back on my lounge hifi is to play
the stream from the BBC website on my wireless laptop. I then monitor
the output and use vlc to stream that (wirelessly again) to a favourite
stored on LMS and then play that on my hifi. It's a bit of a palava,
and trying it tonight needed a further strange hack. I used to be able
to play the stream to a linux 'null' device and monitor that. Tonight
that didn't work for the BBC stream, so I resorted to an old faithful
that even the BBC cannot stop. Play the sound on my laptop audio,
monitor that, and plug a headphone adaptor into the headphone socket to
switch the sound off on the laptop.
Of course the BBC will claim that they know how I am using their stream
- firefox on a laptop. Not quite the whole story.
I don't know what quality the source stream is using this method, but
I'll find out somehow.
Grrrrr.
To anyone wishing to try something so daft, the vlc command I am
currently using is:
Code:
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cvlc pulse://null.monitor
:sout='#transcode{vcodec=none,acodec=mp3,ab=320,channels=2,samplerate=44100}:http{dst=:8081/laptop.mp3}'
:no-sout-rtp-sap :no-sout-standard-sap
--------------------
I'm aware this isn't quite as good as it could be, but it is working.
And my favourite is:
Code:
--------------------
http://w.x.y.z:8081/laptop.mp3
--------------------
where w.x.y.z is the IP address of my laptop.
LMS 7.9 on VortexBox Midi, Xubuntu 14.04, FLACs 16->24 bit,
44.1->192kbps. LMS & Squeeze2upnp to MF M1 CLiC (to MF amp & ESLs) &
Marantz CR603 UPnP renderers. Minimserver (server) & upplay (control
point) to same renderers & to upmpdcli/mpd PC renderers. Squeezelite to
Meridian USB Explorer DAC to speakers/phones. Wireless Xubuntu 14.04
laptop with firefox/upplay or Android 'phone with
Squeeze-Commander/BubbleUPnP controls LMS/Minimserver. Have a Touch
with EDO, and a spare, but don't use.
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