bayard1music wrote: > i) I'm not sure that there any images on the AAC station (not in front > of me now), but there are some on the MP3 stream I'm sure. As it happens, Global Radio does not provide images in their icy metadata offering. Any images that you may see probably stem from how the stream has been started - if from the 'Radio' menu on the Radio then probably TuneIn (the underlying driver of that menu) is providing them.
bayard1music wrote: > > ii) Should a modified version of 'jive' become available , might I ask > how I would program that on my Squeezebox ? Or is this only something a > developer would be skilled enough to do. I obviously don't want to > 'brick' the radio beyond recovery due to my errors. Plus how might I > know that the code is available if its something I could attempt. (I'm > an electronics eng. but whilst having some Rasberry Pi/Arduino > experience today I couldn't call myself a programmer.) I inadvertently overstated the capabilities of the replacement 'jive' that I have built and am currently running as a test. There are some closed source/private elements that don't go in. Notably no native AAC or WMA decoding. That's not necessarily a show stopper, because LMS will step in and transcode any AAC or WMA stream. But WMA (Windows media) requires, I believe, an additional plugin to be installed. I don't recall ever needing it, frankly. Helpful overview of the LMS transcoding process: https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?113362-The-sound-quality-of-different-LMS-versions-differ-!&p=997751&viewfull=1#post997751 That said, there is a project to keep the Radio's firmware updated, initiated by forum member @ralphy: Community Build Radio Firmware: https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?111663-Community-Build-Radio-Firmware&p=995413&viewfull=1#post995413 That does have native AAC support (kudos to @ralphy), although some other limitations remain. I suspect that the absence of a native WMA decoder is the only item of any significance, and then only if you find yourself needing that format. I am intending to offer up this particular 'patch' for inclusion in a future release, if it passes muster. 'Bricking' is a distinctly relative term. Given that you have Rasberry Pi experience, I imagine that you are content with using the command line to copy, move, unzip, delete files, etc. Were you to choose to install the 'jive' that I am making, it would be a simple upload together with a sequence of simple copy/move steps to put it in place *correctly*, followed by a *careful* check that all is as it should be before restarting the Radio. At worse, a factory reset would remove the change and revert to the 'vanilla' system. It would also remove any saved settings, Wi-fi password, etc... A different approach may yet be found that requires no firmware tinkering. As usual, it will become a matter of figuring out the various pros/cons. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mrw's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=38299 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=113309 _______________________________________________ Radio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
