Notwithstanding some theories expounded her and on the defunct blog, I still believe this was an almighty cock-up rather than a conspiracy. They thought they were saving money and asked Internet Radio manufacturers if moving off WMA to AAC would be a problem. The answers would have been mostly OK, so they went ahead. They failed to notice that the critical change was in the protocol, not the codec.
They did no trials, no tests, no communication with users, nothing of that sort, because they are not good at their jobs. They closed the blogs because they can't be bothered with us. We are a rather noisy bolshy bunch. They will carry on as they are, making unannounced changes, because they know best. Their supplier may well be driving some of this, but much of the mess is done out of ignorance since they seem to be a mainly video organisation. Bugger. So we will depend on bpa, expectingtofly and a few others who really understand the technology to try and help us with key changes as and when the BBC move the goalposts, and the rest of us will muddle along trying to help each other as best we can. We are still, at present, in much, much better shape than other Internet Radio users, especially the blind. 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PasTim's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=41642 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53229 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
