mrw wrote: > 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. > > > 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.I am running the jive alsa that you modified to workaround the bass > amp issue. I thought that one did support aac but I could be wrong.
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