Re: [slim] Running AAC Plus with SC7
The update to AACplus for Squeezecenter 7.3 is ready and can be installed using the Extension Downloader (ED) a new feature of 7.3 which is accessed through Settings/Plugins/Extension Downloader/settings. This makes installation even easier. The new streaming module of SC 7.3 also fixes the delayed song titles and you can also bitrate limit AACplus streams. Install instructions for AACplus plugin are below following some explanation about the ED. ABOUT EXTENSION DOWNLOADER The Extension Downloader (ED) is an automated method for installing, updating and removing plugins, applets, InfoBrowser Addons etc from repositories. Currently the public repository is small but it will be expanded to hold popular/recommended plugins etc. Currently most Plugins are in private repositories and the user will have add URLs to the Additional Repositories list. The AACplus is in my repository at URL. URLs for other repositories can be found here http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/SqueezeCenter_Repositories Feedback on the functionality, ease of use, shortcoming, problems etc on ED is needed so that it can be improved for the next release. TO INSTALL AACPLUS PLUGIN 1. If you have a version of the AACplus plugin already installed in SC 7.3 then it needs to be deleted and SC restarted SC. 2. Open SC Setting/Plugins/Extension Downloader/Settings 3. Add this URL http://bpaplugins.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/repo.xml to Additional Repositories and click Apply. 4. A list of Plugins should be displayed. Check the box opposite the AACplus plugin and click apply. 5. If Installation is successful - restart SC. The Extension Downloader does not install plugins into the server/Plugins or the server/Slim/Plugin directory. It will install plugin into a new directory called InstalledPlugin in Sc's cache directory. The path to the SC cache directory can be found on the Settings/Information web page near the bottom of the page. Using ED is the preferred installation method but if the user really wants to install manually from a zip file then the AACplus plugin is available from the following location http://code.google.com/p/bpaplugins/downloads/list -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41403 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Running AAC Plus with SC7
Just tried this with 7.3. It works, though I had to edit the install.xml file to update MaxVersion. I just made it 7.5 and it was fine. Thanks for this -- beats editing all the config files every time I upgrade. muski -- muski Transporter via XLR-Bryston BP26DA-Bryston 4B SST-Wilson Watt Puppy 7s Transporter via XLR-Headroom Max Balanced Headphone Amp-Balanced AKG701s muski's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3670 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41403 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Running AAC Plus with SC7
bpa;331820 Wrote: Those messages are produced at startup. It looks like you did not enable the logging or you rebooted after changing the logging level. Logging level will be forgotten after a reboot. 1. Change the logging level of player.source to INFO and click apply. 2. Make a note of the time of day (HH:MM:SS) and then try to play the RMF URL 3. Open log and look at recent messages from the time you tried to play the RMF URL - if you do not get messages like the one I posted previously then logging has not been enabled or your system has some other problem. NOW IS Working for me too RMF FM working very good. Thanx for all help. -- Ptaku Ptaku's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19521 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41403 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Running AAC Plus with SC7
I just did like you wrote but my friend can listen to: http://87.98.223.167:8000/ but its not working for me att all. On my squezzbox i get RMF FM but is not playing. bpa;272774 Wrote: For SC7, to simplify installation of AACplus support, I have created a plugin. It is a holder and does nothing but enables all the AACplus files to have their own directories and so editing of conf or strings.txt files is no longer needed. Mplayer is required to decode the AACplus streams and can be downloaded from http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html Feedback on the installation instructions (especially for different Linux distros and OSX) is needed so the Wiki can be updated. For slow AACplus streams (e.g. 48k,64k) - the track titles will appear on the SB displayed but they are delayed by around 5 minutes Windows Installation. 1. Download the AACplusWin.zip file 2. Unzip the contents so that in the SC7 directory server/Plugins/AACplus there is a Plugin.pm and a Bin directory. 3. If you do not have AlienBBC installed ort mplayer in another Bin directpory of SC7 do the following a. Download the non-GUI version of mplayer from http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/win32/MPlayer-mingw32-1.0rc2.zip b. Unzip so that there is mplayer.exe in server/Plugins/AACplus/Bin 4. Restart Slimserver and check Settings/Advanced/FileTypes that there are AACplus entries and they are enabled. 5. Test Linux/OSX Installation 1. Download the AACplusLinux.tar.gz file 2. Unzip the contents so that in the SC7 directory Plugins/AACplus there is a Plugin.pm and a Bin directory. Make sure files have correct ownership and permissions especially aacpmplayer.sh in AACplus/Bin - it must be executable. 3. Install mplayer if you do not have mplayer installed. Use standard OSX mplayer install as th AACplus plugin should find the correct mplayer. 4. Restart Slimserver and check Settings/Advanced/FileTypes that there are AACplus entries and they are enabled. 5. Test -- Ptaku Ptaku's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19521 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41403 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Running AAC Plus with SC7
I am also having trouble getting the above method to include aac plus in the 'file types' menu using the above instructions. I'm running SqueezeCemter 7.1. Any suggestions? -- Davos Davos's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19522 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41403 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Running AAC Plus with SC7
Please provide system info as instructions can vary depending on your configuration. 1. What OS are you using ? Give processor if you are using OSX or Linux. 2. What version of SC ? After plugin installation and SC restart - check If you are running 7.1 and you just installed the plugins you will need to edit the install.xml file to enable the plugin to run on 7.1. I've attached to this post updated plugins which have updated install.xml. After changin install.xml or updating the plugin - restart SC. Check list. 1. Check Settings/Plugins - there should be an AACplus entry and it should be enabled. If there is no AACplus entry then the AACplus plugin was probably installed in the wrong directory. If the AACplus plugin is not enabled then there is some incompatibility that needs to be identified. 2. Check Settings/Advanced/File Types. There should be 3 entries for AACplus. At least the WAV and Flac entries must be enabled. If there are no AACplus entries then installation of AACplus plugin is faulty. On Windows if the AACplus Filetypes are not enabled then mplayer is not installed in the correct directory. 3. When testing a AACplus URL using Tune-in - if elapsed time increments but no audio then on Linux mplayer is not installed properly. +---+ |Filename: AACplusWin.zip | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=5679| +---+ -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41403 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Running AAC Plus with SC7
I have Windows XP and I was trying on SC6.5 and SC7.1 (with edit on install.xml fil) without any luck. Maybe you have some others plugin who helps you to play aacplus URL. I have on my computer only Winamp. WMP and DiVX player install.nothing more. bpa;331778 Wrote: Please provide system info as instructions can vary depending on your configuration. 1. What OS are you using ? Give processor if you are using OSX or Linux. 2. What version of SC ? After plugin installation and SC restart - check If you are running 7.1 and you just installed the plugins you will need to edit the install.xml file to enable the plugin to run on 7.1. I've attached to this post updated plugins which have updated install.xml. After changin install.xml or updating the plugin - restart SC. Check list. 1. Check Settings/Plugins - there should be an AACplus entry and it should be enabled. If there is no AACplus entry then the AACplus plugin was probably installed in the wrong directory. If the AACplus plugin is not enabled then there is some incompatibility that needs to be identified. 2. Check Settings/Advanced/File Types. There should be 3 entries for AACplus. At least the WAV and Flac entries must be enabled. If there are no AACplus entries then installation of AACplus plugin is faulty. On Windows if the AACplus Filetypes are not enabled then mplayer is not installed in the correct directory. 3. When testing a AACplus URL using Tune-in - if elapsed time increments but no audio then on Linux mplayer is not installed properly. -- Ptaku Ptaku's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19521 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41403 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Running AAC Plus with SC7
Ptaku. None of the AACplus plugins will work for SS6.5. The plugin on post #19 will not work for SC 7.1 without change to install.xml I attached to previous post the AACplus plugin for 7.x which will work for 7.1. Have you installed mplayer ? -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41403 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Running AAC Plus with SC7
bpa;331790 Wrote: Ptaku. None of the AACplus plugins will work for SS6.5. The plugin on post #19 will not work for SC 7.1 without change to install.xml I attached to previous post the AACplus plugin for 7.x which will work for 7.1. Have you installed mplayer ? Yes I know, then I have install SC7.1 with change install.xml , but still no luck. Yes, I have mplayer in BIN catalog, when I start upp testmplayer.bat I can hear music. -- Ptaku Ptaku's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19521 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41403 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Running AAC Plus with SC7
bpa;331803 Wrote: Is AACplus plugin enabled in Settings/Plugins ? Do you have AACplus entries in Settings/Advanced/Filetypes ? If you have the AACplus entries are they enabled ? Yes, everything is On.just like my friend has on his computer.We have check my files to his files and everything is the same. STRANGE!!! When I put mplayer http://www.shoutcast.com/sbin/shoutcast-playlist.pls?rn=9631file=filename.pls; sting in DOS promt ITS PLAYING RMF FM station without problems... +---+ |Filename: sc7.JPG | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=5680| +---+ -- Ptaku Ptaku's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19521 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41403 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Running AAC Plus with SC7
What security software have you installed such as Nporton, McAfee, NOD32 ? Make sure you have the app socketwrapper.exe marked as a trusted network application. Some security s/w block the operation of socketwrapper.exe which is needed to transcoding. -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41403 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Running AAC Plus with SC7
bpa;331807 Wrote: What security software have you installed such as Nporton, McAfee, NOD32 ? Make sure you have the app socketwrapper.exe marked as a trusted network application. Some security s/w block the operation of socketwrapper.exe which is needed to transcoding. I have only Norton 2008, Maybe I have to do something on my router DIR-655 ? Should I put this fil: socketwrapper.exe in firewall as trusten, manually ? -- Ptaku Ptaku's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19521 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41403 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Running AAC Plus with SC7
If the station plays using mplayer from the same PC as SC then it cannot be the router. Have you rebooted Windows ? some strange problems seem to be caused by Windows caching and a reboot clears them. It is worth trying. To see what is happening, you will need to enable some logging. Change the settings Settings/Advanced/Logging player.source to INFO and click apply. Try playing your RMF URL- then open the server.log (see Settings/Status) and copy the recent messages starting with message somehting like Code: [08-08-23 19:40:23.9753] Slim::Player::Source::resetSong (1744) Resetting song buffer. [08-08-23 19:40:23.9838] Slim::Player::Source::openSong (1845) Trying to open: http://www.shoutcast.com/sbin/shoutcast-playlist.pls?rn=9631file=filename.pls Copy all messages during the tune-in as sometimes it is missing messages that are important. -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41403 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Running AAC Plus with SC7
bpa;331810 Wrote: If the station plays using mplayer from the same PC as SC then it cannot be the router. Have you rebooted Windows ? some strange problems seem to be caused by Windows caching and a reboot clears them. It is worth trying. To see what is happening, you will need to enable some logging. Change the settings Settings/Advanced/Logging player.source to INFO and click apply. Try playing your RMF URL- then open the server.log (see Settings/Status) and copy the recent messages starting with message somehting like Code: [08-08-23 19:40:23.9753] Slim::Player::Source::resetSong (1744) Resetting song buffer. [08-08-23 19:40:23.9838] Slim::Player::Source::openSong (1845) Trying to open: http://www.shoutcast.com/sbin/shoutcast-playlist.pls?rn=9631file=filename.pls Copy all messages during the tune-in as sometimes it is missing messages that are important. My looks like this after I was trying play RFM FM url: [08-08-23 20:43:23.0782] Slim::Schema::init (151) Warning: Creating new database - empty database or database from 6.3.x found [08-08-23 20:45:56.8067] main::checkDataSource (873) Warning: Schema updated or no tracks in the database, initiating scan. [08-08-23 20:47:45.4936] main::checkDataSource (873) Warning: Schema updated or no tracks in the database, initiating scan. [08-08-23 20:48:46.6633] main::checkDataSource (873) Warning: Schema updated or no tracks in the database, initiating scan. [08-08-23 21:06:09.9376] Slim::Player::TranscodingHelper::loadConversionTables (45) Loading conversion config files... -- Ptaku Ptaku's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19521 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41403 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Running AAC Plus with SC7
Those messages are produced at startup. It looks like you did not enable the logging or you rebooted after changing the logging level. Logging level will be forgotten after a reboot. 1. Change the logging level of player.source to INFO and click apply. 2. Make a note of the time of day (HH:MM:SS) and then try to play the RMF URL 3. Open log and look at recent messages from the time you tried to play the RMF URL - if you do not get messages like the one I posted previously then logging has not been enabled or your system has some other problem. -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41403 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Running AAC Plus with SC7
It now works! Just to follow up my previous problem: -I'm running XP with squeezecenter 7.1. -I created the AACplus plugin folder and put mplayer.exe in the bin folder. I tested that it worked with the Testmplayer.bat file. The audio worked. I still didn't get AACplus to show up in the settings/advanced/file types though, even though it was selected under 'plugins.' I tried restarting Windows to no avail. To get the plugin to work, I used the updated install.xml file (thanks bpa!) just in case there was an error in the one I modified and closed squeezecenter. I noticed that it was still running under processes though when i pressed ctr+alt+delete. I ended the process and when I started squeezecenter again, voila! a command prompt popped up when I connected to the AACplus stream I had never seen before with information about the stream/bitrate etc. Thanks for your help bpa! -- Davos Davos's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19522 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41403 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Running AAC Plus with SC7
I am using SC7.2 from the testing main trunk on Ubuntu Hardy Heron. I think I followed Bpa's instructions correctly. The plugin is installed in the correct directory, permissions match the process launch user (squeezecenter:nogroup) and the aacpmplayer.sh has the execute bit set. The SC server log shows this message: Slim::Utils::PluginManager::enablePlugins (408) Couldn't load Plugins::AACplus::Plugin. Error: Plugin is incompatible with this version of SqueezeCenter. Please update. The File Format shows correctly in the SC Settings: Advanced- File Types but the decoder select boxes are ghosted/grey and not functional. I tried putting the conf files in /etc/squeezecenter and removed the plugin. The plugin error goes away (of course) and the decoder select boxes are enabled but the File Format does not list AAC Plus but shows mplayer as enable for the File Format that is missing in that column. In this configuration AAC Streams do not work. Mplayer will play streams correctly when launched from the command line. Could someone feed me a clue? I am happy to change plugins but I am rather new to Squeezecenter. Thanks to all on this forum, I would be totally lost with your support. Cheers -- lowjumpingfrog lowjumpingfrog's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19259 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41403 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Running AAC Plus with SC7
Edit AACplus plugin install.xml (use Wordpad if you are running Windows) and changed the Maxversion from 7.0.+ to *. Then restart SC. -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41403 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Running AAC Plus with SC7
Great, that did it! I guess I need to dig a bit deeper next time. Streaming aacplus now works - Thanks! Is this plugin suppose to handle m4a files as well? It seems like it does not since the Decoder select boxes for File Type Apple AAC or Movie File are ghost/grey. I guess I can still do the trans-coding thing? -- lowjumpingfrog lowjumpingfrog's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19259 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41403 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Running AAC Plus with SC7
AACplus is NOT AAC. You need to change different setting for MOV in convert.conf to handle AAC. Look up the Wiki. -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41403 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Running AAC Plus with SC7
Do pardon my inquiry if it sounds a bit on the stupid side! I already have AlienBBC installed, with mplayer etc (used the install pack for SqueezeCenter 7.0), I downloaded the AACplusWin.zip file, which contains ACCplusWin folder containing a ACCplusWin file of 3.04KB, I have put the folder ACCplusWin (containing the ACCplusWin file) into C:\Program Files (x86)\SqueezeCenter\Server\Plugins, however what I don't understand is how I get the Plugin.pm and a Bin directory (Step 2 of instructions) into .\Server\Plugins\ACCplusWin folder? I am using Vista Business 64 bit. How do I accomplish this, so I can get accPlus streams to work? Thanks. -- jbloggs jbloggs's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16370 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41403 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Running AAC Plus with SC7
The folder ACCplusWinis still a zip file - you need to unzip it and there you will find the contents of PLugin.pm etc. If you downloaded the AACplusWin.zip file using IE 6 or IE7, they usually compress the AACplusWin.zip file into a GZ file. Why it does this is not clear (it doesn't happen with Firefox) but it adds the extra layer which has to be unzipped. -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41403 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Running AAC Plus with SC7
For SC7, to simplify installation of AACplus support, I have created a plugin. It is a holder and does nothing but enables all the AACplus files to have their own directories and so editing of conf or strings.txt files is no longer needed. Mplayer is required to decode the AACplus streams and can be downloaded from http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html Feedback on the installation instructions (especially for different Linux distros and OSX) is needed so the Wiki can be updated. For slow AACplus streams (e.g. 48k,64k) - the track titles will appear on the SB displayed but they are delayed by around 5 minutes Windows Installation. 1. Download the AACplusWin.zip file 2. Unzip the contents so that in the SC7 directory server/Plugins/AACplus there is a Plugin.pm and a Bin directory. 3. If you do not have AlienBBC installed ort mplayer in another Bin directpory of SC7 do the following a. Download the non-GUI version of mplayer from http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/win32/MPlayer-mingw32-1.0rc2.zip b. Unzip so that there is mplayer.exe in server/Plugins/AACplus/Bin 4. Restart Slimserver and check Settings/Advanced/FileTypes that there are AACplus entries and they are enabled. 5. Test Linux/OSX Installation 1. Download the AACplusLinux.tar.gz file 2. Unzip the contents so that in the SC7 directory Plugins/AACplus there is a Plugin.pm and a Bin directory. Make sure files have correct ownership and permissions especially aacpmplayer.sh in AACplus/Bin - it must be executable. 3. Install mplayer if you do not have mplayer installed. Use standard OSX mplayer install as th AACplus plugin should find the correct mplayer. 4. Restart Slimserver and check Settings/Advanced/FileTypes that there are AACplus entries and they are enabled. 5. Test +---+ |Filename: AACplusWin.zip | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=4391| +---+ -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41403 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Running AAC Plus with SC7
Tested on the Mac. aacPlus streams now successfully play. Thanks, Bryan! -- vinnielo *Come and try:* RadioFeeds UK Ireland for your Squeezebox! *http://www.radiofeeds.co.uk/squeeze* vinnielo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14510 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41403 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Running AAC Plus with SC7
bpa;272774 Wrote: Linux/OSX Installation 1. Download the AACplusLinux.tar.gz file 2. Unzip the contents so that in the SC7 directory Plugins/AACplus there is a Plugin.pm and a Bin directory. Make sure files have correct ownership and permissions especially aacpmplayer.sh in AACplus/Bin - it must be executable. 3. Install mplayer if you do not have mplayer installed. Use standard OSX mplayer install as th AACplus plugin should find the correct mplayer. 4. Restart Slimserver and check Settings/Advanced/FileTypes that there are AACplus entries and they are enabled. so far so good, but the AACplus entries in Settings are all disabled, and won't allow enabling (i.e. clicking Apply does not save). server.log says: [08-02-25 15:01:36.3722] Slim::Player::Source::openSong (1735) Error: Couldn't create command line for aap playback for [http://66.162.107.142/cpr1_aac] -- IceFusion IceFusion's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15255 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41403 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Running AAC Plus with SC7
never mind. fixed my permissions on aacpmplayer.sh. working great. though what transcoding is appropriate? am using flac, but that's likely overkill... -- IceFusion IceFusion's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15255 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41403 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Running AAC Plus with SC7
Cross post. Flac will ensure you get the quality delivered by the stream. If you chose an AAC+ stream for quality - recompressing into MP3 may result in losing that quality. Unless bandwidth is a problem - it is generally not desireable to transcode a lossy format into another lossy format. -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41403 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Running AAC Plus with SC7
The entries disabled means SQueezeCenter either can't find or access aacmplayer.sh or it is not marked executable. The aacmplayer.sh file should be in the AACplus/Bin directory. Did you check the permissions on aacpmplayer.sh to make it is accessible to the user id which runs squeezecenter and that aacmplayer.sh is executable ? -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41403 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Running AAC Plus with SC7
I've gone into my custom-convert.conf file and swapped the lines for the Linux version but I'm still having trouble selecting mplayer in the settings. I'm guessing there's more I need to do than simply changing these? -- vinnielo *Come and try:* RadioFeeds UK Ireland for your Squeezebox! *http://www.radiofeeds.co.uk/squeeze* vinnielo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14510 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41403 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Running AAC Plus with SC7
bpa;251955 Wrote: I haven't tested this with Windows but it works with SC7 on Linux. This method only works in SC7. Essentially in SC7 - if there are custom files in a directory in the Plugins folder - they will be read. This avoids having to edit the AlienBBC custom file. 1. Stop Slimserver. 2. Attached is a zip file of a directory called AACplus which has 3 custom files needed for Windows. Download the attached file and then unzip the file so that you have a directory called C:\Program Files\SqueezeCenter\server\Plugins\AACplus and in this directory there are just the files custom-convert.conf, custom-types.conf and custom-strings.txt 3. Start Slimserver 4. Check In Server Settings/Advanced/Filetypes you have 3 entries for AACplus. I've tested this with Mac OS's SqueezeCenter and it doesn't quite work. Note that I have AlienBBC and mplayer can successfully transcode the RealPlayer streams. This is what I see in settings / file types: AACplus FLAC, mp3, WAV The selection boxes beside all three say Disabled Whenever I try to use mplayer with these types, I get the following returned: Required binary was not found: mplayer for aap-flc-*-* Required binary was not found: mplayer for aap-mp3-*-* Required binary was not found: mplayer for aap-wav-*-* Has anyone successfully enabled aacPlus decoding on SC7 on the Mac? -- vinnielo *Come and try:* RadioFeeds UK Ireland for your Squeezebox! *http://www.radiofeeds.co.uk/squeeze* vinnielo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14510 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41403 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Running AAC Plus with SC7
OSX installation needs some special tweaks to find mplayer. To overcome this and avoid the need to modify conf files - I have put together a AACplus plugin - although it is not really a plugin but using the plugin layout enables separate conf files and a Bin directory for AACplus. The Bin directory has an mplayer.sh like AlienBBC which is used to find mplayer. I'll post the plugin shortly and update the wiki instructions. -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41403 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Running AAC Plus with SC7
The wiki was written for 6.3 and 6.5.1 so it needs to be updated for SC7. I have been putting this off as there have been changes to SC7 which would have meant updating the Wiki often with reviusion specific instructions. Some SC7 file organisation changes have happened since this thread was written but I think SC7 is now stable enough to update the wiki. From your description it looks like something wrong with mplayer. What OS are you running ? What rev of SC 7 ? What version of AlienBBC have you installed ? What is the full path of where mplayer is installed ? I have never tried a Shoutcast AACplus stream - please use the the test URLs as you may be introducing a second problem. I know how the test URLs behave and especially the MIME info they send. The methods described in post #10 is the cleanest for SC7. So revert back to the installation conf and strings.txt files. If you are using Windows follow the instructions for post #10 to get the system into a known configuration. Now describe the symptoms when playing a station. If you are not using Windows - there needs to be a mod depending on the OS. -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41403 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Running AAC Plus with SC7
Thanks! I got it working with your help. (Sometimes, you have to take the blind back to the water hole they almost drowned in before they'll drink .. ;-D ) One other thing that helped is that I used the new AlienBBC installer for SqueezeCenter and I think that helped to clean things up a bit. I probably had some file in the wrong place somewhere from my manual install. -- NFLnut NFLnut's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13180 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41403 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Running AAC Plus with SC7
The custom-convert.conf file that I downloaded from http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?AACplus does not contain the #PIPE# string. So I went to edit the fileto add this string but when I came to save the file I just got the following error message: Cannot create the C:\program File\SqueezeCenter\Custom-Convert.Conf file. Make sure that the path and file name are correct. I am using Windows Vista and edited the file with Notepad. As I mentioned earlier, I downloaded custom-convert-conf from http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?AACplus, so why do I now need to edit it. Are there any files available for download that already have the #PIPE# string set correctly? Thanks for your assistance. -- norderney norderney's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=378 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41403 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Running AAC Plus with SC7
The attached files are templates for Linux/OSX users. The Wiki instruction says for Windows - download the attached files and then edit custom-convert.conf. The instruction were written a while ago. I've been thinking how to make it easier. Edit the conf file with Wordpad. Windows Vista has extra protection and a slightly different directory layout so offhand I am not sure where the custom files should go. They should go in the same Squeezecenter directory as the existing convert.conf and types.conf files. -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41403 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Running AAC Plus with SC7
I think this is what is wrong but I don't have Vista. Probably because you are a user not authorised to write into the direftory. Vista has separated code and data directory and users are not allow to write into code direcotry. So you will need to login as a more powerful user who installs applications (administrator ?) -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41403 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Running AAC Plus with SC7
Wordpad wont save the file either. Just says Access to Custom-convert.conf was denied. What now. Why will it not let me save these files? -- norderney norderney's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=378 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41403 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Running AAC Plus with SC7
Hi bpa. Thank you very much for your reply. I do indeed want to get AAC Plus working and I am happy to test any procedures you want to try. I very much appreciate your assistance. In order to get back to a clean state I have uninstalled SC7, rebooted and then re-installed SC7. I then re-installed AlienBBC. The SC7 install process creates a folder called Squeezecenter in Program Files. It then creates sub directories within Squeezecenter, one of which is called Server. If you select the Server folder you then get to a folder called Plugins. If you go to this Plugins folder, you will find a sub directory called Alien :- Volume in drive C is OS Volume Serial Number is 08DA-E924 Directory of C:\Program Files\SqueezeCenter\server\Plugins 27/12/2007 22:16DIR . 27/12/2007 22:16DIR .. 27/12/2007 22:02DIR Alien 1 Dir(s) 390,794,772,480 bytes free If you select the Alien folder you then get a number of files and folders. Here is the ccontents of the Alien folder: Volume in drive C is OS Volume Serial Number is 08DA-E924 Directory of C:\Program Files\SqueezeCenter\server\Plugins\Alien 27/12/2007 22:02DIR . 27/12/2007 22:02DIR .. 27/12/2007 21:55DIR Addons 29/08/2007 12:32 1,646 custom-convert.conf 29/08/2007 12:32 1,567 custom-convert.conf.alt 19/04/2007 19:20 431 custom-types.conf 27/12/2007 21:55DIR Default 27/12/2007 21:55DIR HTML 18/11/2007 16:36 603 install.xml 27/12/2007 21:55DIR Parsers 27/12/2007 21:55DIR Playlists 27/11/2007 20:53 7,237 Plugin.pm 11/11/2007 11:32 2,123 RTSP.pm 22/11/2007 22:28 3,558 Settings.pm 11/11/2007 11:32 2,051 StartTime.pm 29/09/2007 12:59 2,410 strings.txt 9 File(s) 21,626 bytes 7 Dir(s) 390,826,532,864 bytes free If you need any more information from me please let me know. Thanks Andrew Smith -- norderney norderney's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=378 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41403 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Running AAC Plus with SC7
Oh this is turning into a nightmare! I have pasted the correct details into Custom-convert.conf. Am I right in thinking that Custom-convert.conf needs to be renamed to convert.conf? I have tried this. I have also added the appropriate bits to strings.txt and types.conf. Then rebooted my PC but now Slimserver will not start. The icon in the system tray just says SqueezeCenter Starting and my squeezeBox has an error message saying it can not find Slimserver. It was working ok before I made these changes. Why is this so difficult to do? Could this configuration not be included in the main SqueezeCenter software, or failing that could we have an installation program like we have for Alien BBC? When I installed AlienBBC I downloaded 1 install program, ran it and within a few minutes it was installed and working ok. I am very keen to get this AAC Plus working. -- norderney norderney's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=378 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41403 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Running AAC Plus with SC7
Parts of the problems stem from using SC7 and Vista. I do not have Vista and this is complicating issues. It was working ok before I made these changes. Get rid of the changes and get SC working again. With SC7 I have found a simpler install process which works with Linux - I haven't tested with Windows so I need to do a bit of research. I can test XP but I can't test Vista - can you provide the full directory path for the Alien Plugins directory as the new solution requires creating a new Plugin directory. -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41403 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Running AAC Plus with SC7
I haven't tested this with Windows but it works with SC7 on Linux. This method only works in SC7. Essentially in SC7 - if there are custom files in a directory in the Plugins folder - they will be read. This avoids having to edit the AlienBBC custom file. 1. Stop Slimserver. 2. Attached is a zip file of a directory called AACplus which has 3 custom files needed for Windows. Download the attached file and then unzip the file so that you have a directory called C:\Program Files\SqueezeCenter\server\Plugins\AACplus and in this directory there are just the files custom-convert.conf, custom-types.conf and custom-strings.txt 3. Start Slimserver 4. Check In Server Settings/Advanced/Filetypes you have 3 entries for AACplus. +---+ |Filename: AACplus.ZIP | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=3910| +---+ -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41403 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Running AAC Plus with SC7
Hi Bpa. Thank you very much for your help. AACplus is WORKING perfectly on SC7 running with Windows Vista!!! Putting those 3 files in the AACplus folder like you suggested worked perfectly. Just exploring the wonderful world of AACplus radio. It's nice to actually hear good quality internet radio at last. Thanks again. -- norderney norderney's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=378 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41403 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Running AAC Plus with SC7
Here is a good source of AACplus streams but you'll need to dig a bit to get the URL. http://tuner2.com/index.html Only the live streams work. -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41403 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Running AAC Plus with SC7
I have just installed SqueezeCenter Version: 7.0 - 15528 today onto my PC running Windows Vista Ultimate. I was hoping to configure AAC Plus, so that I can listen to AAC Plus streams. I have already installed AlienBBC, which is working, so I know MPlayer is installed ok. I downloaded the following files custom-convert.conf, custom-strings.txt and custom-types.conf from http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?AACplus. I put these files into both C:\program files\squeezeCenter and C:\program files\squeezeCenter\server, but I am not getting any audio from the AAC Plus streams. I am getting scrowling text showing the track and artist names relating to the AAC Plus streams. Have I done something wrong. Any advice would be appreciated. -- norderney norderney's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=378 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41403 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Running AAC Plus with SC7
Does your custom-convert.conf file contain the #PIPE# string as per the instruction ? If so - can you enable logging with player.source set to INFO and copy the log of trying to play a stream to a post. -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41403 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
