Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce Planet Radio / Bauer Media plugin - PlanetRock, Absolute, Kiss, Scala ++

2021-04-16 Thread bpa


Paul Webster wrote: 
> I will if things fail to play ... however, for me, things are, in
> general playing well.
> Note - I am on 8.1.2

PlayMP4 is not valid for 8.0 upwards.
If it is working - it is more by accident and I think you have come
across its limitations.

It would be better to remove PlayMP4 and expose an LMS 8.* bug/issue if
there is one (e.g. not handling some MPEG4 file options)

Native MP4 handling enables LMS seeks into non-live MPEG4 content.



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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce Planet Radio / Bauer Media plugin - PlanetRock, Absolute, Kiss, Scala ++

2021-04-16 Thread bpa


Paul Webster wrote: 
> I do - version 1.0

Remove it - it is not valid for 8.* as LMS 8.* has MP4 handling as part
of LMS and the plugin is breaking it.



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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce Planet Radio / Bauer Media plugin - PlanetRock, Absolute, Kiss, Scala ++

2021-04-16 Thread bpa


Paul Webster wrote: 
> On my setup ... pCP 7 (recent LMS 8.1.2) with updated ffmpeg (from
> yesterday) and playing to a Joggler running old Squeezeplay ...
> the boxsets are transcoded to flac via ffmpeg which, I presume, means
> that Reliable (which I do have enabled on my system) is not involved.
> 
> Looking at the conversions configuration ... it picked this one
> 
> MPEG-4 -> FLAC (F, R) - ffmpeg

LMS does not normally invoke ffmpeg as it is not part of the LMS
install.  AAC Transcoding is normally done using faad

Have you got PlayMP4 plugin installed ?



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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Mixcloud plugin?

2021-04-15 Thread bpa


philippe_44 wrote: 
> As @bpa said, I think there is more to do, including handling HLS files
> as obviously dmixcloud indicates that it's also an available format, and
> this would probably solve the issue of some files not playing, but
> that's beyond my objectives.

Mixcloud provide URLs specifically to stream programs both live and
non-live. The chosen HLS format is using a newish option - fMP4
(fragmented MPEG-4). I am updating the playHLSv2 (no ffmpeg) plugin to
support this HLS/fMP4.  This is generic plugin as the HLS format is used
by many broadcasters,  it needs to satisfy more than just the Mixcloud
needs so take it is taking a bit longer to complete.

When complete, the Mixcloud plugin would need to be updated to support
to use the HLS URLs.  I am not sure whether the current plugin supports
finding the URLs for live streams.

The change to https by many stations and services has required LMS and
many users to upgrade system as shortcoming were exposed.  Support for
LMS under Windows is a bit harder as the Perl is version is stuck at
5.14 because support for the particular product used by LMS has ended
and the Perl vendor no longer updates the libraries. So some libraries
are getting a bit out of date and so other issues may appear from time
to time. Ralphy has been good at updating these libraries so far.

The number of developers on LMS plugin and core is still quite small and
their free time is finite. 
Orphan plugins are the hardest to deal with as devoting time to fix them
means less time to deal with other LMS issues and the prospect of later
calls for support.

Philippe has been exceptional in his efforts ( and courage) in adding
much needed code adding required modern features (e.g MP4, https, http
1.1, SqueezeAMP, numerous bridges etc.) to LMS core.

If anybody wishes to help & learn to add/fix code to LMS and/or plugins
- you will be supported as the pool of developers has to be increased
otherwise LMS may stagnate.



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Re: Signal Generator Plugin � where does it install to?

2021-04-14 Thread bpa


MichaelPr wrote: 
> Do we talk about the same thing? First of all, I like to see an icon in
> the Extras menu
> .
> .
> Sorry about this silly question - but I'm not deep into it.
Yes we are talking about different things. Icons can typically show up
in three instances: Menus , favorites and when playing.  Often Favorite
icons don't show up when playing - I thought this was the case.

The icon in menus driven by the install.xml and so should display
normally as long icon is in the location and the HTML settings match the
installation (i.e. EN is for English) - although I think EN is the
default if there are no other languages defined.

For some devices like controller - icons may be slow to load (e.g.
needed scaling) and in which case never show until maybe controller is
power up again.



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Re: Signal Generator Plugin � where does it install to?

2021-04-14 Thread bpa


MichaelPr wrote: 
> Guess that's what I'm missing - where can I read it out/change it


I haven't looked at plugin code but "cover art" is usually returned as
part of the data returned by the routine getmetadatafor for the "Now
playing " displays and the plugin icon is used if a plugin has no cover
art.



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Re: Signal Generator Plugin � where does it install to?

2021-04-14 Thread bpa


MichaelPr wrote: 
> The only thing what I'm missing - an icon. I just tried to create one
> (plugins/SigGen/html/icon.png) - it failed - I'm not sure
> what I'm missing... My son really liked this plugin for his physics
> lesson to understand the parameters while home schooling  :)

Was in in the right directory ?

The icon location depends on what is set in install.xml

so for 

Code:


plugins/SigGen/html/images/siggen.png
  



The siggen.png is in the
Plugins/SigGen/HTML/EN/plugins/SigGen/html/images



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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Mixcloud plugin?

2021-04-14 Thread bpa


It looks like problem getting ajax.php from dlmixcloud.com

Code:


  [21-04-14 18:26:15.7020] Plugins::MixCloud::ProtocolHandler::getTrackUrl 
(140) Error: Cannot get play URL for 
Jazzmo/guidos-lounge-cafe-flip-fantazia-mix-guest-mix-by-t_mo/ from 
https://www.dlmixcloud.com/ajax.php
  



I did some test using wget from dlmixcloud and every so often it can
take over 20 secs to reply.

What is your setting for Advanced/Network/Radio Station Timeout ?

If it is 15 or less, increase to say 30 - just to see if it make a
difference.



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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Mixcloud plugin?

2021-04-14 Thread bpa


There are no log entries of player.source with the updated LMS.

As a sanity check - can you show the size of all the files in  the
InstalledPlugins/Plugins/Mixcloud directory.



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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Mixcloud plugin?

2021-04-14 Thread bpa


I'd start with an updating LMS.  Philippe first updates to 8.2 were on
Apr 7 (and another one yesterday I think)  - your LMS is from Apr 4.



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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Mixcloud plugin?

2021-04-14 Thread bpa


staresy wrote: 
> Still no luck on my setup, every stream I try to play via Mixcloud comes
> up with "Problem, unable to open file type..."
That implies MP4 implementation is not right or there is something
overriding the LMS MP4 handling or possibly more fundamental the
mixcloud plugin.

What version of LMS are you using ?
Have you removed PlayMP4 ?

What does Settings/Advanced/Filetypes show for MP4 ?

What does log with player.source set to INFO show ?



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Re: Signal Generator Plugin � where does it install to?

2021-04-13 Thread bpa

SpiderJon wrote: 
> Hi all
> 
> I've installed triode's "Signal Generator Plugin".
> 
> It's listed as being installed on Server Settings > Plugins, but doesn't
> have any options. 
> 
> 34163
> 
> I'm assuming it should have its own page somewhere in the LMS interface
> — on which you can 'start' it and set the test tone frequency — but I
> just cannot find it.
> 
> TIA
> 
> Jon

I think this thread tells how
https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?56203-signalgenerator-on-controller



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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: PlayHLS Plugin - plugin to play Apple HLS m3u8 stream

2021-04-11 Thread bpa


Paul Webster wrote: 
> Very good chance that there was (France Inter playing somewhere).
The module in question is an old AnyEvent  module which I used to add
HTTP 1.1. support (i.e. persistent connection - multiple http GETs over
same TCP connection) which reduced processor load considerably for HLS
and also enabled old version of LMS to play HLS streams because it had
better TLS support than pre LMS 7.9.

HTTP 1.1. has since been added to LMS and also many users have now
migrated to 8.* so I have felt the time has come to remove this module
dependency and go back to using LMS HTTP methods.

I'm working adding support for fMP4 (fragmented MPEG4 - basically DASH
MPEG4 fragments under HLS) - it is the remaining unsupported media type
in HLS V2.

If the error is only occasional then there is no rush to update the
module but it should go away when I finish the 

If the fMP4 support takes longer than I'd like - I'll do an interim
release (>8.1 only) which basically would be current HLSv2 without
AnyEvent module - if only to test that LMS HTTP 1.1. support is OK.



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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: PlayHLS Plugin - plugin to play Apple HLS m3u8 stream

2021-04-11 Thread bpa


Paul Webster wrote: 
> Sometimes on LMS restart I find that PlayHLS plugin fails to load.
> Perhaps a timing issue somewhere.

Was a player playing a HLS stream previously before the restart ?



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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Mixcloud plugin?

2021-04-10 Thread bpa


cortegedusage wrote: 
> I don't think so, the streaming comes directly from Mixcloud dlmixcloud
> has nothing to do with that,
> The only thing it does (as far as I understand it) is decoding a file it
> gets from mixcloud and getting the url out of it..
> .
> .
> .
> 
> but it gets the stream directly from Mixcloud
> 
> cheers
> Dennis

I think we've been through this already. Look at my earlier post
https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?88286-Mixcloud-plugin=1017759=1#post1017759

In the JSON from dlmixcloud are usually 3 URLs. 2 Streamable (HLS/fMP4 &
DASH) and one downloadable (http/MP4). Many site don't like streaming
from downloadable URL and timeout

However, this is maintaining the plugin - maintaing a plugin takes
effort (usually more than initial development) and at present there is
no users of the plugin who is a plugin developer.

> now I'm no coder but this looks like there is something encrypted.

Nothing stopping you becoming a coder and this seems as a good an
opportunity to start.



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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Mixcloud plugin?

2021-04-10 Thread bpa


mherger wrote: 
> > @mherger it would be nice if statistics of plugin installs/usage were
> > available. Is this something you have, or interested in adding to LMS
> > server?
> 
> I'm sorry, I don't even have an idea about my own plugins.

I used to use sourceforge as a repository because they had these
statistics but SF was not reliable as a repository (or perhaps it was
partly https related)



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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Mixcloud plugin?

2021-04-08 Thread bpa


philippe_44 wrote: 
> Just for clarity, I'm happy to provide a few fixes and updates for LMS
> 8.x (make AAC/MP4 play and seek) but I will not be the maintainer.
> AFAIC, it works now and I don't think I'd do more than than. I have
> still experienced a few early playback stop and if this is because the
> mixcloud model is to download the entire file and then do local playback
> instead of streaming, this is way beyond this contribution. That would
> be a LMS general problem where we'd have to define a new base protocol
> handler I think, above HTTP(S) which would do that. Very different
> target.

Looking at what is streamed when Mixcloud is playing through a browser,
there are other formats (HLS/fMP4 & DASH) available which may provide
other streaming rather download options for an LMS plugin. So when I get
the playHLS plugin upgraded, I'll probably look at the Mixcloud plugin
as a source of test material but not as maintainer.



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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Mixcloud plugin?

2021-04-08 Thread bpa


mherger wrote: 
> > The developer of the plugin made only one post to the forum in 2015
> then
> > disappeared.
> 
> Are you sure? I see three postings this year alone, in this thread:
> 
> https://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?44967-505

>From github & plugin page the plugin seems to have been started by
Christian and then updated by Daniel (505) added but his comment is

> 
> This Plugin is in Alpha stage and build from the SqueezeCloud Plugin
> (thanks to the developers), because the documentation of the LMS Server
> is very bad and Perl still sucks.

So I think there is no active development for it just occasional help
just enough to keep it going.



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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Mixcloud plugin?

2021-04-08 Thread bpa


scoob101 wrote: 
> I`ve read a few pages of this thread, and just wanted to confirm::
> 
> Is it fair to say that robust Mixcloud streaming in squeezebox currently
> a work in progress?

That's one view but I think incomplete.

What is being discussed are issues relating to current mixcloud plugin
and incompatibilties with LMS 8.*. It also highlighted other issues
related to Mixcloud and possibility of better ways to access Mixcloud
services

However it is not clear whether there is an active maintainer/developer
of the mixcloud plugin (no recent contribution to this thread) - so when
the issues are resolved who will implement and maintain the plugin.



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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Mixcloud plugin?

2021-04-08 Thread bpa

philippe_44 wrote: 
> They might simply have a white list of agents rather than a blacklist, I
> don’t know but I agree this is a good suggestion to try that route.

This issue was highlighted when OP remarked that URLs played when using
ffmpeg to transcode. Not sure what UA ffmpeg uses.

The unobfuscated  test URL I used also work with wget which has a user
agent string of "Wget/1.20.3"  So is Mixcloud agnostic except for iTunes
!!  Perhaps iTunes has a special deal with Mixcloud.

Code:


  ---request begin---
  GET 
/secure/c/m4a/64/2/6/0/6/442f-d95a-4b49-a3a1-8c1c59ed1186.m4a?sig=oP6RGk-Bo-2rKvOpYVPOTQ
 HTTP/1.1
  User-Agent: Wget/1.20.3 (linux-gnu)
  Accept: */*
  Accept-Encoding: identity
  Host: stream6.mixcloud.com
  Connection: Keep-Alive
  
  ---request end---
  



I've come across a one or two other podcast sites where "iTunes" in a UA
blocked the request.

Without real thought - I think a preference at plugin level (e.g. maybe
a register type function)  might be the most flexible.



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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Mixcloud plugin?

2021-04-07 Thread bpa


philippe_44 wrote: 
> The URL in tune in probably did not work well, I've change that a bit as
> well. Now, according to what I see, it should not be the download url
> that you'd enter there, but more an URL you'd grab from
> www.mixcloud.com. It's probably doable to change the regex to accept
> any.
> Re half-speed, it might be an issue with the fact that MixCloud seems to
> use AAC SBR and not all decoder know how to read the header. As a
> result, you have the core samplerate returned to the player/LMS and it's
> 1/2 of speed.

The URL I used Tune-in - plays OK outside of LMS and looks like an
acceptable http/MPEG4 file - which is why I am curious why it fails in
LMS when mixcloud URL is not installed. The mixcloud plugin regex grabs
any mixcloud URL so no point testing with Tune-in if plugin is
installed.

As I said I don't use mixcloud so it was a bit of random testing. Some
stream were MP3 so I assume not all mixcloud streams have the same
format and so mixed results are likely.

The half speed playback was happening when I was testing on DAC32.  I
didn't look much further.



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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Mixcloud plugin?

2021-04-07 Thread bpa


As a test, I set up a clean install of LMS 8.1.2 nightly with Mixcloud.
Didn't change any default settings. No personal auth id.  Some MP4
tracks without issue to both DAC32 and to a Radio

So FileType MPEG-4 is all default i.e. Native, faad/flac, faad/lame and
faad.

For streams that plays OK on Radio - LMS  proxies https stream without
any need to change default settings (i.e. Filetype is unchanged,
insecure HTTPS is unchecked !)

Ones that worked OK 
https://stream.btsstream.com:8012/dcfm.aac

It also seems to direct stream OK for another 

Code:


  [21-04-07 10:48:32.1236] Slim::Player::Song::open (460) URL supports direct 
streaming 
[mixcloud://theresa-deane/ms-skyrym-sounds-03-04-2021/->mixcloudd://stream2.mixcloud.com/secure/c/m4a/64/9/9/7/3/90a7-4b3c-4930-ba14-56fe9e53907c.m4a?sig=JPjjUS_BpQRV8QB_jxOXyA]
  
  



However - some tracks fail. I found one track Classical/Fluidnation -
which seemed to jam up the LMS/plugin.
Another track (Jazz SaturdaySelects) plays at slow speed.

When I tried to play the URL I tested before using "Tune-in"
https://stream6.mixcloud.com/secure/c/m4a/64/2/6/0/6/442f-d95a-4b49-a3a1-8c1c59ed1186.m4a?sig=oP6RGk-Bo-2rKvOpYVPOTQ

This cause problems with the mixcloud plugin - I'm guessing the plugin
has hooks (maybe for metadata) and so mixcloud.com URL shouldn't be
played via "Tune-in" or Favorites

I think this means the MP4 issue is OK and the LMS 8.* is prbably OK.
However the plugin itself may need more work to be reliable.



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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Mixcloud plugin?

2021-04-06 Thread bpa


cortegedusage wrote: 
> The mixcloud plugin for kodi seems to have a way to get the stream url
> directly from mixcloud.com
> https://github.com/jackyNIX/xbmc-mixcloud-plugin/blob/branch_matrix/lib/resolver.py
> 
> I am no coder at all and I would love to buy you guys a beer, even if
> you won't get this one working, 
> you are doing a fine job keeping this system up to date.

AFAICT That code effectively does the same thing as dlmixcloud. Returns
the same URLs which LMS is having problem playing. 

So after rewriting the code, it'll come back to the same issue making
the URLs playable from LMS.



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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Mixcloud plugin?

2021-04-06 Thread bpa


Paul Webster wrote: 
> MixCloud has Sonos itegration
> https://help.mixcloud.com/hc/en-us/articles/360005933200-How-do-I-connect-Mixcloud-to-Sonos-
> 
> I wonder if they could be persuaded to allow LMS as a genuine
> integration?
> Might mean putting some code into a non-opensource area (like
> MySqueezebox does) but could make things much better.
That would make a better mid->long term strategy. However it would also
make it dependent on mysqueezebox.

>From a purely problem solving POV - I'd like to know why the 403
happens.



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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Mixcloud plugin?

2021-04-06 Thread bpa


Paul Webster wrote: 
> I just tried that URL from mplayer and it worked.
> 
> My dlmixcloud comment was because, from memory, that is what the plugin
> uses to get the real mixcloud URL.
> When I saw the "secure" and "sig" parts in the URL I thought that maybe
> they were generated by MixCloud as a result the original dlmixcloud
> request and they might timeout or have other protection in them. Seems
> not though since it plays here on mplayer which, in turn, seems to be
> using FFmpeg for the codec handling.

I think dlmixcloud finds the URLs for the playable items on mixcloud. 
The mixcloud plugin I think uses the download MP3 and MP4 URLs to play.
The dlmixcloud response also the HLS/fMP$ and DASH URLs for streaming
(i.e. not downloading).

I think the LMS failed to play the https URL and so it fell through into
the ffmpeg (part of PlayMP4 plugin) and ffmpeg was able to play the
https/MP4 URLs.  

If that is the case then there is something odd about LMS https handling
- however I'm not that familiar with https negotiation details nor LMS
https handling and at the moment don't have the time to go down those
rabbit holes.

Code:


  21-04-06 10:29:44.2840] Slim::Networking::Async::DNS::__ANON__ (75) Got DNS 
response 46.23.65.220 for api.mixcloud.com (ttl 300)
  [21-04-06 10:29:44.2849] Slim::Networking::Async::DNS::__ANON__ (75) Got DNS 
response 46.23.65.220 for api.mixcloud.com (ttl 300)
  [21-04-06 10:29:44.2856] Slim::Networking::Async::DNS::__ANON__ (75) Got DNS 
response 46.23.65.220 for api.mixcloud.com (ttl 300)
  [21-04-06 10:29:44.2884] Slim::Networking::Async::DNS::__ANON__ (75) Got DNS 
response 46.28.55.241 for stream6.mixcloud.com (ttl 300)
  [21-04-06 10:29:44.3607] Slim::Networking::Async::HTTP::_http_read (454) 
Redirecting to https://www.mixcloud.com/developers/
  [21-04-06 10:29:44.3627] Slim::Networking::Async::HTTP::_http_read (454) 
Redirecting to https://www.mixcloud.com/developers/
  [21-04-06 10:29:44.3724] Slim::Networking::Async::HTTP::_http_read (454) 
Redirecting to https://www.mixcloud.com/developers/
  [21-04-06 10:29:44.3885] Slim::Networking::Async::DNS::__ANON__ (75) Got DNS 
response 104.20.4.36 for www.mixcloud.com (ttl 300)
  [21-04-06 10:29:44.3896] Slim::Networking::Async::DNS::__ANON__ (75) Got DNS 
response 104.20.4.36 for www.mixcloud.com (ttl 300)
  [21-04-06 10:29:44.3905] Slim::Networking::Async::DNS::__ANON__ (75) Got DNS 
response 104.20.4.36 for www.mixcloud.com (ttl 300)
  [21-04-06 10:29:44.4347] Slim::Utils::Scanner::Remote::__ANON__ (192) Error: 
Can't connect to remote server to retrieve playlist for, 
https://stream6.mixcloud.com/secure/c/m4a/64/2/6/0/6/442f-d95a-4b49-a3a1-8c1c59ed1186.m4a?sig=oP6RGk-Bo-2rKvOpYVPOTQ:
 403 Forbidden.
  




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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Mixcloud plugin?

2021-04-06 Thread bpa


Paul Webster wrote: 
> I have (or at least had) edit rights on the MixCloud plugin in Github
> because of a small change I suggested long ago.
> So - if the current maintainer does not call in over the next few days
> then I should be able to work on this.
> 
> As for the 403 (Forbidden) ... it might be a protection mechanism from
> MixCloud (which does not sanction dlmixcloud) - to prevent later reuse
> of URLs and forcing a regeneration.

I have tested the same URL for the last 2 days. Always 403 on LMS but it
still plays OK on ffplay and VLC.

Even wget with no command line-options works which means no Cookies and
vanilla Headers



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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Mixcloud plugin?

2021-04-06 Thread bpa


philippe_44 wrote: 
> A few additions: to handle mp4 and benefit from the 8.x additions (mp4
> seek and built-decoding to be usable from legacy SB), it seems the
> plugin needs to be changed a fair bit. It cannot inherit from
> RemoteStream.pm and redefine many methods, it must be based on
> Slim::Player::Protocol::HTTPS to handle SSL correctly. A lot of
> redefined methods should be removed and/or call their ancestor. As of
> now, and I've not investigated precisely why, but it only works in
> proxied mode, I assume it's because of the "parseHeader" and
> "parseDirectHeader" that do not call their ancestors as well. I don't
> have more time to investigate. This works in proxied mode

As I said I don't use mixcloud but you have confirmed what I expected -
mixcloud doesn't play well with MP4 support in LMS 8.* .  

Have you checked why the Mixcloud MP4 URL I copied which plays OK with
VLC and doesn't with play in LMS 8.* which hasn't mixcloud plugin
installed (i.e. so all the parseHeader etc. stuff is irrelevant)  ?
https://stream6.mixcloud.com/secure/c/m4a/64/2/6/0/6/442f-d95a-4b49-a3a1-8c1c59ed1186.m4a?sig=oP6RGk-Bo-2rKvOpYVPOTQ

I agree - I think Mixcloud plugin cpould be simplified. The plugin
manages to find a source which has a JSON response of track details. 
The JSON response has 3 playable URLs (HLS/fMP4, DASH and HTTP/MPEG4)
which means the plugin should just provide a playlist of applicable URLs
to LMS and then so could remove all the special stream handling code.

A stopgap would be to provide variants of PlayMP4 to use ffmpeg to play
HLS/fMP4 stream or maybe to proper PlayMP4 support for 8.* (i.e.
override all LMS 8.*  - extreme as I think loses more than it gains) .

Coincidentally, when time allows, I'm working on enhancing PlayHLS to
enable the playHLS plugin to natively play HLS /fMP4  and also a
PlayDASH plugin to play stream with suffix "mpd"  and mime
"application/dash+xml".  These additions would enable mixcloud just to
pass URLs to LMS to play - although metadata would still be up to
mixcloud to maintain.



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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Mixcloud plugin?

2021-04-05 Thread bpa


philippe_44 wrote: 
> It's a long thread/discussion - can you help me with a specific URL that
> causes problem?

Mixcloud plugin seems to have problems.

Somehow it generates https URL for MP4 streamable files which have
problems playing on LMS 8.*.  User have install theplayMP4 plugin to use
ffmpeg to play and even then it is not reliable.

I don't use it but when I try the https/MP4 URLs that are in the posted
logs I get 403 errors. 
I can play the same URL with ffplay or VLC on the same Ubuntu system as
LMS is running.  It might be some sort of Auth issue but can't reconcile
that with playing OK with ffplay.

Try this URL

https://stream6.mixcloud.com/secure/c/m4a/64/2/6/0/6/442f-d95a-4b49-a3a1-8c1c59ed1186.m4a?sig=oP6RGk-Bo-2rKvOpYVPOTQ



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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Mixcloud plugin?

2021-04-05 Thread bpa


staresy wrote: 
> Just so I'm clear, does this mean the only option to use the mixcloud
> plugin is to install ffmpeg and the playmp4 plugin as a workaround and
> it's a bit of luck that it might work?
Yes. I think it's possible because stream fails to play or parse it
falls through into the PlayMP4 plugin.

It needs more work to look at it in more detail.  LMS 8.* defines mp4
type - the playMP4 plugin may override the mp4 LMS 8.* handling but it
was designed for 7.9.* and 8.* has more options and so the MP4 plugin
may be half handling mp4 types.

However, if PlayMP4 is not installed, the http MP4 stream URL (withou
using mixcloud plugin) fails with LMS 8.* MP4 handling with a 403 - so
that implies a problem with LMS MP4 and/or https handling. 

When using the mxcloud plugin, the stream fails to even start playing -
so that indicates something with the mixcloud plugin itself.

So a few layers of issues.

> Is it unlikely that the mixcloud plugin can/will be updated to correct
> this, is it no-longer supported/maintained?

MP4 and https issues should be fixable once Phillippe is made aware.

Last fix to mixcloud was done 3 months ago so it looks like it is being
maintained but you may need to open an issue on the github
https://github.com/danielvijge/lms_mixcloud



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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Mixcloud plugin?

2021-04-05 Thread bpa


cortegedusage wrote: 
> if I put mixcloud plugin logging to debug I get this.(info didn't show
> much, this does)

It doesn't add anything more to what I was saying. 

There is an issue with the mixcloud plugin and or LMS MP4 handling.
The plugin finds the MP4 file with a https URL but either its protocol
handler gives the wrong info to LMS and/or if the URL is attempted to be
played using "Tune-in" is not playable by LMS (I get a 403) 


Code:


  [21-04-05 21:36:31.5301] Slim::Utils::Scanner::Remote::__ANON__ (192) Error: 
Can't connect to remote server to retrieve playlist for, 
https://stream6.mixcloud.com/secure/c/m4a/64/2/6/0/6/442f-d95a-4b49-a3a1-8c1c59ed1186.m4a?sig=oP6RGk-Bo-2rKvOpYVPOTQ:
 403 Forbidden.
  




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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Mixcloud plugin?

2021-04-05 Thread bpa


cortegedusage wrote: 
> When I disable ffmpeg and stream to one touch only (no group, that won't
> work) I get:


This log

Code:


  21-04-05 21:03:55.7920] Slim::Player::Song::open (460) URL supports direct 
streaming 
[mixcloud://mixtuur/late-night-world-woensdag-24-februari-2021/->mixcloudd://stream4.mixcloud.com/secure/c/m4a/64/3/4/e/0/04ff-79a5-45fb-8732-a734dd2a9184.m4a?sig=3Knobxpk76yXqqAbhcx7rA]
  



This seems to indicate that mixcloud is protocol handler for the stream
and it is sending directly to player (i.e. because mixcloud plugin
thinks the player can play a AAC/MP4 stream natively).  But the URL
using ffmpeg shows it is a "https" stream which Touch cannot handle
natively.  So this looks like a mixcloud plugin error.  Perhaps enabling
mixcloud logging might show a bit more info.

So these logs tell me - there are issues with mixcloud plugin (or maybe
its installation) and perhaps LMS MP4 https handling (not sure as
mixcloud plugin is involved). The PlayMP4 plugin is at best a workaround
- I think LMS 8.* should be able to play the URL the ffmpeg is shown to
play (it is a standard single audio track MPEG-4 format just like a
MPEG4 podcast)



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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Mixcloud plugin?

2021-04-05 Thread bpa


cortegedusage wrote: 
> This is what I get when playing a track through the ffmpeg
> 

OK. 

When I try to play the URL through LMS 8.2 for testing with AAC native
disabled but because of https I think some native players such as Radio
/ TOuch cannot handle https so atiev dsiablke is irrelevant. - I get a
403 forbidden.

The URL plays OK using ffmpeg from command line on same Ubuntu system.
So it looks like a LMS https support issue - maybe MP4 specific. 
Philippe is the guy to check out.

The URL is a plain MP4 but it is strange that is it transcoded into PCM
and not Flac with plugin.



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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Mixcloud plugin?

2021-04-05 Thread bpa


It looks like the mixclound plugin cannot process a mixcloud audio file
from dlmixcloud.com (i.e. https://www.dlmixcloud.com/ajax.php ).  The
URL in the log has the following JSON data which I think says the audio
is available in HLS/fMP4 or DASH formats - no MP3 or plain MP4. 

I'm guessing mixcloud plugin has not been installed properly or this is
something new or I'm looking in wrong place.

ffmpeg is able to play HLS /fMP4 so I think errors in mixcloud plugin
may be falling through into PlayMP4 plugin and ffmpeg manages to play
thr format even though it is the wrong setup.


Code:


  {
  "id": "tyanh73_mind-001",
  "title": "Mind 001 (Oct 2017)",
  "formats": [
  {
  "format_id": "hls-72",
  "url": 
"https:\/\/audio5.mixcloud.com\/secure\/hls\/c\/f\/d\/c\/ba4c-4fb6-4e67-885b-c8db87982297.m4a\/streamindex-a1.m3u8",
  "manifest_url": 
"https:\/\/audio5.mixcloud.com\/secure\/hls\/c\/f\/d\/c\/ba4c-4fb6-4e67-885b-c8db87982297.m4a\/index.m3u8",
  "tbr": 72.664,
  "ext": "mp4",
  "fps": null,
  "protocol": "m3u8_native",
  "preference": null,
  "vcodec": "none",
  "acodec": "mp4a.40.2",
  "format": "hls-72 - audio only",
  "http_headers": {
  "User-Agent": "Mozilla\/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit\/537.36 
(KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome\/76.0.3779.0 Safari\/537.36",
  "Accept-Charset": "ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7",
  "Accept": 
"text\/html,application\/xhtml+xml,application\/xml;q=0.9,*\/*;q=0.8",
  "Accept-Encoding": "gzip, deflate",
  "Accept-Language": "en-us,en;q=0.5",
  "Cookie": "__cfduid=d51e372ba5d27b84f8ee54e7639da8b541617647485; 
csrftoken=Py1StKusGyI3vbeJcCdIMF3hMZ14O7ForAltbJaoBf5QCrG06IJf7xg9f3Ct90eb; 
c=uzvsb3fn10kf9jdjficfsl79bs3aoz1r; mx_t=12ac6b49-11ca-4fcc-8bd3-bfef845de0e5"
  }
  },
  {
  "format_id": "dash-a1-x3",
  "manifest_url": 
"https:\/\/audio4.mixcloud.com\/secure\/dash2\/c\/f\/d\/c\/ba4c-4fb6-4e67-885b-c8db87982297.m4a\/manifest.mpd",
  "ext": "m4a",
  "width": null,
  "height": null,
  "tbr": 72.664,
  "asr": 22050,
  "fps": null,
  "language": null,
  "format_note": "DASH audio",
  "filesize": null,
  "container": "m4a_dash",
  "vcodec": "none",
  "acodec": "mp4a.40.2",
  "url": 
"https:\/\/audio4.mixcloud.com\/secure\/dash2\/c\/f\/d\/c\/ba4c-4fb6-4e67-885b-c8db87982297.m4a\/manifest.mpd",
  "fragment_base_url": 
"https:\/\/audio4.mixcloud.com\/secure\/dash2\/c\/f\/d\/c\/ba4c-4fb6-4e67-885b-c8db87982297.m4a\/",
  "fragments": [
  {
  "url": 
"https:\/\/audio4.mixcloud.com\/secure\/dash2\/c\/f\/d\/c\/ba4c-4fb6-4e67-885b-c8db87982297.m4a\/init-a1-x3.mp4"
  },
  {
  "url": 
"https:\/\/audio4.mixcloud.com\/secure\/dash2\/c\/f\/d\/c\/ba4c-4fb6-4e67-885b-c8db87982297.m4a\/fragment-1-a1-x3.m4s",
  "duration": 10
  },
  {
  "url": 
"https:\/\/audio4.mixcloud.com\/secure\/dash2\/c\/f\/d\/c\/ba4c-4fb6-4e67-885b-c8db87982297.m4a\/fragment-2-a1-x3.m4s",
  "duration": 10
  },
  .
  .
  .
  ],
  "tags": [],
  "artist": "Sasha, Ale Russo, Chris Cargo, Galestian, Mira J, Greg S",
  "extractor": "mixcloud",
  "webpage_url": "https:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/tyanh73\/mind-001\/",
  "webpage_url_basename": "mind-001",
  "extractor_key": "Mixcloud",
  "playlist": null,
  "playlist_index": null,
  "thumbnails": [
  {
  "url": 
"https:\/\/thumbnailer.mixcloud.com\/unsafe\/1024x1024\/extaudio\/a\/9\/d\/a\/321f-1992-4805-a7cc-1cd5ae559ebc",
  "id": "0"
  }
  ],
  "display_id": "tyanh73_mind-001",
  "upload_date": "20171005",
  "requested_subtitles": null,
  "format_id": "http",
  "url": 
"https:\/\/stream2.mixcloud.com\/secure\/c\/m4a\/64\/c\/f\/d\/c\/ba4c-4fb6-4e67-885b-c8db87982297.m4a?sig=l3tRv7AJGZlMrB0NUsDhPQ",
  "downloader_options": {
  "http_chunk_size": 5242880
  },
  "ext": "m4a",
  "format": "http - unknown",
  "protocol": "https",
  "http_headers": {
  "User-Agent": "Mozilla\/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit\/537.36 
(KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome\/76.0.3779.0 Safari\/537.36",
  "Accept-Charset": "ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7",
  "Accept": 
"text\/html,application\/xhtml+xml,application\/xml;q=0.9,*\/*;q=0.8",
  "Accept-Encoding": "gzip, deflate",
  "Accept-Language": "en-us,en;q=0.5",
  "Cookie": "__cfduid=d51e372ba5d27b84f8ee54e7639da8b541617647485; 
csrftoken=Py1StKusGyI3vbeJcCdIMF3hMZ14O7ForAltbJaoBf5QCrG06IJf7xg9f3Ct90eb; 
c=uzvsb3fn10kf9jdjficfsl79bs3aoz1r; mx_t=12ac6b49-11ca-4fcc-8bd3-bfef845de0e5"
  },
  "fulltitle": "Mind 001 (Oct 2017)",
  "_filename": "Mind 001 (Oct 2017)-tyanh73_mind-001.m4a"
  }
  
  




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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Mixcloud plugin?

2021-04-05 Thread bpa


staresy wrote: 
> [21-04-05 17:50:57.2107] 
> .
> .
> [21-04-05 17:51:40.6779]
> Slim::Player::TranscodingHelper::getConvertCommand2 (485) Error: Didn't
> find any command matches for type: unk
> [21-04-05 17:51:40.6784] Slim::Player::Song::open (384) seek=false
> time=0 canSeek=0SEEK_ERROR_TYPE_NOT_SUPPORTED
> .
> .

This shows why track won't play - track is typed as "unk" i.e. unknown. 


Show a track being played with ffmpeg  so that it can be analysed.



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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Mixcloud plugin?

2021-04-05 Thread bpa


cortegedusage wrote: 
> As far as I understand it, the playmp4 plugin creates a line which uses
> ffmpeg for converting the mp4 stream in flac or pcm.
> For the touch and the radio there is no need for converting as they can
> play it native. the Transporter or the receiver cannot, so for them
> there is need for the conversion. 
> For some reason the command line using faad (whatever that may be) does
> not work with the stream presented by the mixcloud plugin. FFmpeg can
> handle this, so that's why you need
> ffmpeg for conversion.
> 
> That said, for me the plugin works unreliable, most of the streams
> stopping after 20 min. I thought I had it fixed, but it stays
> unreliable. 
> 
> @bpa I don't know if the plugin is presented in 8.1 I had already
> installed it before I did an upgrade to 8.1. So not sure if that's a
> bug.

It sounds like the stream is not plain MPEG-4 but because ffmpeg can
handle different formats - it is "accidentally" working using playMP4 as
ffmpeg. 

What is the URL of the stream being played ?

Use logging player.source to INFO to show the command line being used
and the URL attentped to be played so I can checkl.



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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Mixcloud plugin?

2021-04-05 Thread bpa


cortegedusage wrote: 
> If I want to play to a group I have to enable the playmp4 plugin and
> install ffmpeg
> then I can play to groups.

This is a bug that should be reported as playMP4 is only intended for
7.9.* before MP4 was implemented as part of LMS.



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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Mixcloud plugin?

2021-04-04 Thread bpa


staresy wrote: 
> Hi,
> I've recently been trying to use the Mixcloud plugin to play some NTS
> radio archive feeds, I have installed the plugin, and the bpa playmp4
> plugin.
> 
> I can find the streams I want via the plugin but can't get any of them
> to play, I get the error "unable to play file type for: stream name".
> 
> I am trying to play on an SB radio and Touch. I think I need may need to
> install ffmpeg and do some configuring for transcode but would
> appreciate a pointer as I'm not sure how/what to do.
> 
> I am running LMS on a Win10 machine.
> 
> Thanks

The playMP4 plugiun is out of date and does not work for 8.*.* as LMS
has native support for mP4

If you are using 8.* remove PlayMP4 (I thought it wasn't enabled for
8.*)

Be specific about what you are testing ans how you are trying to get it
to play.



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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce : BBC Sounds Plugin

2021-03-29 Thread bpa


properjob wrote: 
> I haven't had to play about with stream types since BBC messed about
> with the streams for iPlayer & led BPA a merry dance trying to keep up
> with DASH & all sorts of settings.
> 
> Edit: Just looked in iPlayer settings (it's been a while) and there are
> various choices of encoding DASH AAC etc - where there are none in the
> BBC Sounds app. I haven't touched those for years either.
> 
> Under "File Types" "File Format" AAC - Decoder has a choice of Native or
> Disabled. It is currently set to Native (which I believe is default)
> The other 3 listed under AAC (FLAC, MP3 & PCM) are all set to faad

BBCiPlayer plugin is out of date and is in sunset mode. BBC Sounds now
matches the BBC way of doing things and uses a proper API.

The BBciPlayer live stream may still work but there is no real need to
play HLS or MP3 streams as BBC Sounds has proper metadata and ffwd/rew
within a live program.



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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Youtube plugin only plays 44.1 khz files on sq classic & radio

2021-03-25 Thread bpa


Bassie wrote: 
> > Bassie wrote: 
> > And if i search for music, in the youtube plugin,  the only files
> > playing are 44.1 ones
> > 
> > 48.0 don't play at all.
> > 
> > I think it has something to do with conversion in lms??> > 
> 
> Have you confirmed that 48kHz streams work from other sources such as
> from BBC Sounds plugin ?



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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] piCore/Jivelite: how to turn off/snooze an alarm!?

2021-03-18 Thread bpa


TheCoyote wrote: 
> Just spinning down the volume means to forget spinning it up again for
> the next day, I'm afraid. I'm not a fan of manual steps in processes. :)

Alarms are always played at the set alarm volume level - so no effect if
the previous alarm the volume was turned down.



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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: PlayHLS Plugin - plugin to play Apple HLS m3u8 stream

2021-03-16 Thread bpa


These streams need full mPEG-4 video & audio handling.

The pLayhLS V2 implements MP3, ADTS, MPEG-2/MP3, MPEG2-AAC and
MPEG2-Video handling 
I didn't implement MPEG4 as it was never used in any streams I found up
to now.

So this needs whole chunk of new code. I have some MPEG-4 ftype audio
(no video and no stype) handling elsewhere but it would take time and so
it will not be done soon.



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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: PlayHLS Plugin - plugin to play Apple HLS m3u8 stream

2021-03-16 Thread bpa


Parsing the extra "#EXT-X" is the least of the problems. IT was easy to
handle.

There are codec issues now and something else I'm not sure of.



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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Help with Sox LMS 8.0.0

2021-03-16 Thread bpa


zzzap wrote: 
> Thanks, very informative!
> 
> From 'slimserver-vendor/sox/buildme-linux.sh' I learn the following
> version are current for LM 8.1.1
> 
> SOX=14.4.3
> FLAC=1.3.2
> OGG=1.3.3
> VORBIS=1.3.6
> OPUS=1.2.1
> OPUSFILE=0.11
> MAD=0.15.1b
> MAD_SUB="-8"
> WAVPACK=5.1.0

Remember these can be patched/built for LMS which means it is possible
that (i) LMS specific stuff added, (ii) some functionality disabled (ii)
some old version feature are enabled  (iii) some features added from
later version (iv) special build options chosen.



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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Help with Sox LMS 8.0.0

2021-03-16 Thread bpa


zzzap wrote: 
> Can I ask which version of SoX are packaged with LMS 8.1.1?
> 
> On my RPi all files in the /usr/share/squeezeboxserver/Bin/arm-linux
> folder have timestamp Aug 3 2009.

LMS 3rd party tools are handled through this
https://github.com/Logitech/slimserver-vendor

YOu can see any LMS specific patches etc.



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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: PlayHLS Plugin - plugin to play Apple HLS m3u8 stream

2021-03-16 Thread bpa


olivaar wrote: 
> the url of the chunks isnt correct calculated.
> the code in ScanHLS.pm after line 187 assumes that the line after
> #EXTINF is the url.
> to correct this, you can ignore any lines start with "#" after #EXTINF
> till a line that starts without a #
> 
> the url should something like this
> 

I look into this and hope it is this simple bit and not also just a
stepping stone onto another problem with the video stream and the
"OPTIONS"

I think this is the first stream of version 7 that has been tried. Most
audio streams are older version of the HLS protocol - live with no
significant amount of audio buffered .
This additional element is required for seeking to a specific time point
- seek is not a feature which is supported by the plugin.



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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: WaveInput for Linux

2021-03-15 Thread bpa


Old example of streaming http/MP3 from a CD player in a PC.   The source
device can vary according to the source, CD player, DVB-S card, USB
etc.

Code:


  vlc  cdda:///dev/hda --sout 
"#transcode{acodec=mpga,ab=128}:standard{access=http,mux=raw,url=:8080/vlcstream.mp3}"
  




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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: WaveInput for Linux

2021-03-15 Thread bpa


Paul Webster wrote: 
> I think the answer might be to run pulseaudio as a daemon on the system
> that you want to capture the sounds from.
> Then have pulseaudio client running on the machine where LMS is so that
> it can receive the sound and then give it to the plugin.

I am clearly missing some info but can't see where it was supplied. 
making pulseaudio as a source to wavinput is usually hard work.

Why not just run VLC and make a http/MP3 stream out of the audio source.



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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Compatible Plugins LMS 8.2 nightly

2021-03-15 Thread bpa


frankd wrote: 
> I was cautious before upgrading LMS, thus I updated all install.xml of
> plugins before, as I was not sure if these plugins get removed during
> the update progress. 
That is an unorthodox step and can land you in trouble,
> Probably there is no issue when upgrading an old installation or in the
> worst case people have to reinstall the plugins after upgrading...

Yes- the issue was a problem back in early 2020 as 8.0 was released
"suddenly" and plugins developers had to play catchup without forcing
all 7.* plugin users update plugins with no functional change.

That said, some of your repo URLs were out of date. I would advise to
remove all 3rd party repos URLs and then discover which ones you now
need and make sure they the up to date one.

With the new automated 3rd party plugin list build which rebuilds 3rd
party list every x hours - there is less need for separate plugin repos
previously required to push out plugin updates quickly.



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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: WaveInput for Linux

2021-03-15 Thread bpa


Bristow wrote: 
> If I run arecord -l on the nas, I get this:

That seems to say there is no audio input support on your NAS.

What model Synology NAS have you got ?  It is unusual to have audio
input on a NAS ?



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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: PlayHLS Plugin - plugin to play Apple HLS m3u8 stream

2021-03-15 Thread bpa


olivaar wrote: 
> can VLC play DRM-Streams?
> i think the live streams are without DRM

They are doing something special - I see "OPTIONS" request being used -
not usual.

Normally for "awkward" streams, I advise to use PlayHLS V1  which uses
ffmpeg but even ffmpeg cannot play these streams and ffmpeg is the
engine within vlc.

> As I wrote, I could post links, but these are only valid during the live
> session.
that is the problem. It is a real pain to test and there is no guarantee
for exact same.

To update PlayHLS V2 to play these stream - need to determine what is
missing from mainstream player like ffmpeg, add it and then add video
support which is not going to be used just discarded !! a lot of effort
- not a quick fix - so it will not happen soon.  Only when time allows.



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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Compatible Plugins LMS 8.2 nightly

2021-03-15 Thread bpa


frankd wrote: 
> I try to reverse engineer the source of these 4 plugins.
> Overall my repository list is pretty long, including yours :-):
> 

WRT to my plugins. The list is a bit out of date.  
For example the PlayHLS plugin is for V2 but the a beta test version
which was only used for short periods toi test fixes for user found bugs
and so can get out of date v. quickly. The "release" version is
http://bpa-code.github.io/bpaplugins/repo-playhls-v2.xml

To be part of the LMS "3rd party plugins" list most of my supported
plugins have been moved into
https://netcologne.dl.sourceforge.net/project/bpaplugins/OtherPlugins/bpapluginsrepo.xml
such as iHeartRadio, RadioNet and PlayHLS V1. 
Plugin in this repo such as RadioNet means their own repo URL are no
longer supported (e.g. in your list
https://bpa-code.github.io/bpaplugins/radionet-repo.xml )

Any of my plugins that are needed/supported for 8.* had their
install.xml updated (like many other plugins) in Feb 2020 shortly after
released of 8.0.0 and the then advice for 7.9 users was to delete &
reinstall plugins to get install.xml update.

I think you should base your starting list from the LMS reposiotry
https://github.com/LMS-Community/lms-plugin-repository/blob/master/include.json



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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Compatible Plugins LMS 8.2 nightly

2021-03-14 Thread bpa


frankd wrote: 
> I upgraded my system from 7.x to 8.2 nightly today. 
> Before upgrading I edited the install.xml of those plugins in my local
> installation, which had a 7.* instead of 8.* as maxversion.
> among many plugins installed, I had to update only 4:
> 
> PLUGIN_IHEARTRADIO
> PLUGIN_PLAYHLS
> PLUGIN_PLAYMP4
> PLUGIN_WAVEINPUT
> 
> 

They shouldn't have version problems.  Do you have plugin rfepo URLs ?
maybe they are old development ones.

PlayMP4 was an hack plugin (IIRC used ffmpeg to play MPEG4)  which is
now redundant with addition of MP4 support in 8.* so it is not needed
for 8.*



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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: WaveInput for Linux

2021-03-14 Thread bpa


Bristow wrote: 
> Yes i have FLAC, MP3 and PCM but this is disabled and i can't change it 

Cant change because there is no executables that LMS can use.

The entries should be
Flac  - arecord/flac
MP3 - arecord/lame Thius will be disabled if you do not have "lame"
installed
PCM - arecord

Since you have shown that "arecord" works on your system - then the
problem is the permissions - the user id which is running LMS cannot
find/execute the application arecord.  This is strange.  I have Ubuntu
20.04 and it is ok for me.

Permission may also include groups. For example on some system the
userid which is running LMS needs to be a member of the audio group so
that it can access audio hardware although this depends on your audio
hardware - which looks to be ordinary PC except for an odd additional
subdevice.



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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: WaveInput for Linux

2021-03-14 Thread bpa


Bristow wrote: 
> What more can I do? Thank you for everything!

Is the plugin successfully installed ?  
What version of the plugin is installed according to the WebUI
Settings/Plugins page ?
Do you have a File Format called WaveInput under WebUI
Settings/Advanced/Filetypes and if so - what are the settings for FLAC,
MP3 and PCM ?
What is the output of "arecord -l"   ?   Is there a "default" device
listed ?



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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: PlayHLS Plugin - plugin to play Apple HLS m3u8 stream

2021-03-13 Thread bpa


olivaar wrote: 
> is it possible to play mixcloud live streams?
> it seems that this streams are also HLS
> 
> the links are only valid during the live sessions.
> to try one, please go to the following site
> 
> https://www.mixcloud.com/live/
> 
> and select one of the streams.
> 
> to get the m3u8 file, play the stream, open the developer tools of your
> browser and look into the network tab.
> the m3u8-file is requested every few seconds.
> copy the link and open it with vlc/play network stream
> 
> LMS didnt play the stream.

Where are the URLs - I'm going to spend time hunting them down.



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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Annouce: SB Player, a software Squeezebox player app for Android.

2021-03-13 Thread bpa


Murdock wrote: 
> Hi all,
> 
> I am using SB Player on android TV and am very satisfied with it. I just
> have a problem playing WMA files. I realize that they read well on my
> raspberry (piCorePlayer) but not at all through SB Player.
> Does anyone have a solution?


WMA transcoding would be done by LMS. The solution depends on the LMS
system and the host OS.



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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: PlayHLS Plugin - plugin to play Apple HLS m3u8 stream

2021-03-11 Thread bpa


uranus wrote: 
> I see this is an old post- but can't seem to find updated info -> but
> using PlayHLS V2.  Is this designed to support steams with a back
> buffer?  I have a live stream with a buffer,  on squeezelite-x can't
> seem to move within the stream, just resets to live.   Would be nice to
> go back an hour and skip commercials

Plugin doesn't support back buffer - just live.

This is not a common feature.   Can you supply the URL so that it can be
checked.



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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2021-03-10 Thread bpa


slartibartfast wrote: 
> Although Craig has acknowledged the issue of missing logos a few have
> posted that they don't see it. I don't see it so when does it show up?

kidstypike wrote: 
> I don't see a problem with page 2 station logos, they all seem to be
> there. Better not post a picture though . . oops!

I think this issue seems to be very 1.FM specific and probably how the
logos are served.

I have tried other searches (e.g. Jazz)  with more than 2 pages of mixed
source results and Material worked OK.
I then thought maybe only 2 pages of single source results (e.g. BBC) -
and again it worked OK.
However the 1FM search stubbornly does not show logos in page 2 for me -
yet work for others - so this seems to be a some sort of 1.FM fetch
timing issue.



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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2021-03-09 Thread bpa


kidstypike wrote: 
> You need to click on Page 2, Page 3, ect. to see the stations for that
> page. Seems to be 182 pages?

If you search for "1FM" only 2 pages but all 1.FM !

If you search for "1.FM"  many pages found  - LMS drops any punctuation
in ANY search so I think what happens is  "1.FM" becomes a search for
any station with "1" and "FM" and there are many FM stations



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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: RadioNet plugin to enable playing stream from the radio.net service

2021-03-09 Thread bpa


staresy wrote: 
> Ok, but there is something a little strange. If you search for 1fm you
> get x2 pages, the second doesn't show any logos. If you search for 1.fm
> you get multiple pages, the first is pretty similar to the 1fm search
> result but a different order, all subsequent pages show logos. Do you
> see that behaviour?

Just checked - the icon URL is provided by the plugin.

I see the page 2 icons OK on a Radio

I think the problem is a Material one ?  Are the icons missing for you
on Material or Squeezplay / Touch /Radio /



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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: RadioNet plugin to enable playing stream from the radio.net service

2021-03-09 Thread bpa


staresy wrote: 
> Ok, but there is something a little strange. If you search for 1fm you
> get x2 pages, the second doesn't show any logos. If you search for 1.fm
> you get multiple pages, the first is pretty similar to the 1fm search
> result but a different order, all subsequent pages show logos. Do you
> see that behaviour?
Sorry I misread your 1st post  - I thought you had a problem with first
page. 
I don't normally use Material so only do basic check for logos.
I see the behaviour and it only seems to affect the search results -
page 2 for genres are OK.



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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: RadioNet plugin to enable playing stream from the radio.net service

2021-03-09 Thread bpa


Krisbee wrote: 
> Many thanks for the update to v1.4.  Not exhaustively tested, but I'm
> back to surfing the world radio.
There is no functional change - a JSON variable name was changed by
RadioNet.  So once correct to use new name, functionality is as before.



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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: RadioNet plugin to enable playing stream from the radio.net service

2021-03-09 Thread bpa


staresy wrote: 
> Yes, it's come through OK, thanks.
> 
> Minor observation, search for 1FM, the 2nd page list doesn't show the
> station logos. Page 2 seems OK for other search results.
Nothing to do with the plugin. They show OK for me.
The URLs for the images are delivered to LMS (or Material) and if the
response is not received by the time the page is rendered then the image
will not be shown.



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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: CDplayer plugin

2021-03-06 Thread bpa


MichaelPr wrote: 
> Does anyone see this behaviour too? 
It's a well known bug and I've tried a few ways to fix it but they
didn't work.  IIRC It's some sort of anomaly in LMS.  I think to fix it
means rewriting a section of code but I'm not familiar with the
necessary comet stuff so it would take time. Unfortunately, other things
have always taken priority.



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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: RadioNet plugin to enable playing stream from the radio.net service

2021-03-06 Thread bpa


Finger trouble - put the updated repo xml file into wrong SF directory
so LMS repository update process didn't see the update.

Hopefully this time update will appear within a few hours.



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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: RadioNet plugin to enable playing stream from the radio.net service

2021-03-06 Thread bpa


staresy wrote: 
> This hasn't appeared in the repo yet.

I'll check up.
It's been a while since I updated the plugin and the "new" automated
system started arouns the same time so I may have forgotten something.



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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: RadioNet plugin to enable playing stream from the radio.net service

2021-03-05 Thread bpa


I've posted an V1.4 update - it should work itself through LMS repo in a
few hours.

Small change in RadioNet broke the plugin so easy to fix.



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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: RadioNet plugin to enable playing stream from the radio.net service

2021-03-04 Thread bpa


Krisbee wrote: 
> Thanks for the quick response.  Couldn't be sure it wasn't my
> particularly setup.
Good to post - screen scraping changes happen unexpectedly.  I'll have
try to get V2 with API working.

Hopefully I' ll have an update by later today - most menus just needed
same small change.



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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: RadioNet plugin to enable playing stream from the radio.net service

2021-03-04 Thread bpa


Krisbee wrote: 
> Any ideas?

Yes, There is a problem.  The plugin V1 used a screen scraper technique
and Radionet have changed their internals so screen scraping has
failed.

It'll need an update to plugin - if it is a small change, it'll be
quick.  If it is a big change there is a bigger choice.

I have been planning on a V2 which uses their API but haven't had time
to complete.



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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Squeezelite-x silence in playback from mid-track onwards

2021-02-23 Thread bpa


itm wrote: 
> Thanks for that. My files are mp3, which is also set to "Native" in the
> File Types menu. I'll try setting it to "Disabled" to see if it improves
> things.

The issue sounds similar to the one in this thread.
https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?113554-SqueezeLite-on-Windows-pausing-interruption-dropout-of-audio-every-5-minutes

Perhaps you should try ralphy's experimental version of squeezelite.



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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] GlobalPlayer (UK) Plugin - ClassicFM etc.?

2021-02-22 Thread bpa


ralphy wrote: 
> I kept the VM I used to build the SSL updates for windows.
> If you decide to move forward with the project, I will try building an
> AnyEvent 7.x perl package.
I'll let you know.  Building the library will only be needed if testing
with 7.* on Linux goes OK.



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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] GlobalPlayer (UK) Plugin - ClassicFM etc.?

2021-02-21 Thread bpa


psketch wrote: 
>  but you could have an optional installable extension for Linux that
> overwrote the 5.x to add WS support.  

Can't just overwrite some AnyEvent in LMS by 7.* for WS has ANyEvent is
the key to LMS scheduled and single threadedness - it is used by LMS for
all I/O - DNS, HTTP etc. 

The alternative would be to see if the WS stuff can be made to work
under 5.* but IIRC it is unlikley.



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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] GlobalPlayer (UK) Plugin - ClassicFM etc.?

2021-02-21 Thread bpa


psketch wrote: 
> Ah yes  - I remember some other comments on Windows problems.  I'm
> always happy to help testing and trying things, but my knowledge on
> building things on Linux is limited.  Although I run all of my LSM and
> players on PCP (apart from a transporter and boom), my technical
> knowledge is Windows rather than Linux.
I see the approach to be using LMS on Linux to test an update to
AnyEvent 7.*.  The AnyEvent 7.* module is easily built for Linux but
changes to some LMS core modules are likely.

Upgrading AnyEvent to 7.* on Linux should be feasible as I think LMS use
of AnyEvent facilities is limited and this is a upgrade not a
reimplementation.

The main difficulty will be building for Windows - if a new AnyEvent
module built then I would hope there would be no major issues as they
should have been ironed out testing on Linux.



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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] GlobalPlayer (UK) Plugin - ClassicFM etc.?

2021-02-21 Thread bpa


psketch wrote: 
> Hmm ; that's a shame.  Global claim to be the largest radio group in
> Europe now with 25 million people listening in the UK each week, so, on
> the very large assumption that all of the globalplayer stations use the
> same approach, it would be a really nice addition, and now the HD
> streaming thrown into the mix.
> 
> Did Michael comment further on the need for backward compatibility on
> AnyEvent?  From that thread, it looked like he was saying it would need
> backward compat., which makes perfect sense, vs. there was some kind of
> known issue with 7.x vs. 5.x.  Was it more "we don't know if it works"
> vs. "there's known problems".  If it's the former, is it worth a
> conversation with Michael to see if upgrading AnyEvent is an option, as
> that seems to have the widest benefit, vs. writing some kind of
> standalone proxy.

Looking at updating AnyEvent is on my (long) todo list as it would be
useful for another idea I have.

IIRC Beside the "whether it works ", Michael had more basic concerns
because of problems in building any library module for Perl for Windows
(stuck as 5.14 as longer supported by vendor).  Around same time there
were problem update SSL libraries but Ralphy managed to build new SSL
libraries which meant LMS got reasonable "https" support. Summary - i
feel AnyEvent module could be updated & rebuilt - then "does it work"
can be tested. Just time is needed and unlikely to be Michael's as there
is no pressing need for it.  The simplest approach would be to test 7.*
on Linux and if OK - try to build for Windows.



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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce : BBC Sounds Plugin

2021-02-21 Thread bpa


expectingtofly wrote: 
> There is a lot of content

Some may argue too much content and adding to it every day. 

There are 6,481,547 (TV, Radio, podcast etc) available according to BBC
programmes (https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes) .

The old BBCiPlayerExtra method of "browsing" doesn't really work when
there are so many programmes.



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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Squeezelite on rPi 3 suddenly not working

2021-02-20 Thread bpa


Just checking other possibilities on Pi4 and Buster Desktop

The following both work from a shell prompt (not tested as a service)
and audio is output via Pulseaudio. Using pavucontrol squeezelite can be
seen to be an application using Pulseaudio (output is shared with system
sounds)  and it also shows activity on the device.
*squeezelite -o default*
*squeezelite *



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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] How to Remove Incompatible Plugins

2021-02-19 Thread bpa


rootee wrote: 
> "Use unsupported extensions" is _un_checked for me...
Good. That avoids one possible source.

> Ok, so you're saying that there can still remain rogue, incompatible
> plugins (E.g. NPR Radio) users can install, even if "Use unsupported
> extensions" is _un_checked, unless developers fix their repo XML's?
Yes but in this case they don't install - they are on the list to be
installed but never get installed as they fail validation but LMS will
probably try to install at next startup.

If developer had made a mistake or omitted something (plugin updates are
rarely done at leisure) - plugin install may fail at one of many points
or may partially succeed (e.g. wrong name in URL, bad checksum, error in
code).

The main point is that LMS hasn't crashed or broken anything else so
current methods are adequate.  If you feel LMS must be improved - just
write the code and submit the pull request.



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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Squeezelite on rPi 3 suddenly not working

2021-02-19 Thread bpa


Paul Webster wrote: 
> I think that RPi4 (and perhaps 400) is the only RPi model(s) that needs
> nmap 0

The annoying thing is without the "-a :::0"  squeezelite looks like it
is working.

A slimproto command to change volume show on a log "-d slimproto=info"
so squeezelite looks normal - just that playing never starts playing
output.

By enabling "-d output=info" it shows squeezelite cycles (very fast)
re-trying to open the output device and failing.

I need to get an up date to date build of squeezelite and see if this
behaviour has been fixed/changed.



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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Squeezelite on rPi 3 suddenly not working

2021-02-19 Thread bpa


I have a Raspbian Desktop Pi4 whicis my LMS server. Never bother to test
audio on it before. 
I installed an old squeezelite build 1.9.7 from a tar file.  No other
files (e.g. no sysntemd stuff).

running squeezelite from shell prompt - I get no sound etc. out of
CARD=Headphone
VLC 

SQUEEZLITE -D PLUGHW:CARD=-HEADPHONES,DEV=0

NO sound. Sits there no output.  Slimproto works OK - vol up /down.

SQUEEZLITE -D PLUGHW:CARD=-HEADPHONES,DEV=0 -A :::0

Sound OK.

I also noted that if you enable logging "-d output=info" - squeezelite
produces lots of log error messages unless there is a "-a :::0"



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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] How to Remove Incompatible Plugins

2021-02-19 Thread bpa


rootee wrote: 
> It's not clear to me what you're referring to here...

The 3rd party Plugins are listed in the extensions repo xml which is
downloaded as required by LMS from here
https://github.com/LMS-Community/lms-plugin-repository/blob/master/extensions.xml

The NPR plugin is listed as Maxversion of *"* which means no LMS version
restricitions.

> And, what, if anything, I should manually do to prevent incompatible
> plugins from showing up as installable?

Except keeping "Use unsupported extensions" setting unchecked, you can't
anything more - it is up to plugin developer to keep the data correct. 

What happened was 8.* released and my plugins had a max version then of
7.9.*
I hadn't tested the older plugin whether they worked with 8.* so it was
safeer to keep restrictions.
Usually there isn't a great takeup of 8.0.0 release - a lot of user wait
until 8.0.1 so it seemed like no pressure.
However 8.0.0 had a lot of on-line integration features and Tidal
support that meant there was a rush of "non-technical" users to update
followed by a rush of "complaint" about plugins not loading.

So with lots of caveats - I made a blanket change to all my plugins. I
removed what I thought were all the "old" plugin but NPR slipped by.

For those users who still wanted to use incompatible plugins whose
developer didn't update their repo xml - the Plugin "Use unsupported
extensions" setting was added to LMS.



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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] How to Remove Incompatible Plugins

2021-02-18 Thread bpa


rootee wrote: 
> Seems like LMS should remove incompatible plugins from the 3rd party
> listing entirely, or list them and disallow install.
There are LMS versions in two places: repo XML (controls listing in
3rdpaty list)  and Plugin install.xml (controls installation in LMS)
Must be something left behind in a repo XML - because incompatible
version shouldn't even appear on the 3rd party list.
I thought I had cleared it out with the V8.* updates.



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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] How to Remove Incompatible Plugins

2021-02-18 Thread bpa


rootee wrote: 
> I've tried installing the NPR Radio plugin, and get "Plugin is
> incompatible with this version of Logitech Media Server. Please update."
> In "Server Settings"->Plugins I see no option to update, nor a way to
> remove from the active plugins section (see attached).  Enabling "Update
> plugins automatically" doesn't seem to be updating this plugin; actually
> "Update plugins automatically" is the only way I've managed to *remove*
> the unchecked/non-updateable NPR Radio from active plugins, I.e.
> Enabling "Update plugins automatically" removes the un-checked NPR Radio
> from active plugins.  Should I just avoid NPR Radio plugin?  Is this a
> bug with the LMS plugin manager?

The NPR plugin no longer works as NPR changed their API and there is no
update.  What probably happened is you upgraded LMS and the old NPR
plugin (now incompatible) got carried along but cannot be updated so
left in limbo.  I thought LMS would delete it.

I think the way to delete it is to stop LMS and edit the
prefs/extension.prefs file and delete the line with "NPR:1 " and also
delete the NPR directory in Cache/InstalledPlugins/Plugins.  Then
restart LMS.



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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Squeezelite on rPi 3 suddenly not working

2021-02-18 Thread bpa


If you want a GUI to see/control Pulseaudio then you can install
pavucontrol.



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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Squeezelite on rPi 3 suddenly not working

2021-02-18 Thread bpa


> 
> > 
Code:

  >   > sudo /usr/bin/squeezelite-armv6hf

> > 
> 
> Success! Audio output.
> 
this will be using the default output.
> 
> Then I tried with *hw:CARD=Headphones,DEV=0* and all of the other
> "bcm2835 Headphones" devices and either got no sound or various error
> messages.
> 
Did you check volume ?  
Different devices can have different settings.

Until you have things settled, I'd avoid "hw:" as they require the
output to be matched to the input with no conversion.
Try "plughw:" devices first as they support ALSA software conversion
which increase chances of audio output.

So, the things that I have noted are:
> 
> >   >   > 
  - *Man in a van*'s tutorial is using Raspian Lite and I have been
  > using Raspian OS with Desktop.
  - I have noticed an oddity in the result of the output from the
  > *sudo /usr/bin/squeezelite-armv6hf -l* command.  When I issue that
  > command in a terminal window on the pi desktop, the device "default"
  > is at the top of the list, referring to PulseAudio.  When I ssh to
  > the pi, the same command does NOT show this first line of a
  > "default" device, rather the first device listed is "null".  I'm not
  > sure if this is significant.
  - The other difference is that *Man in a van*'s tutorial shows that
  > his audio devices are listing as *CARD=ALSA* rather than the
  > *CARD=Headphone* that I am seeing.
  > > > 
> 
> I believe this last point to be the most important.  I'm not sure if
> it is related to the first point (ie the OS difference).  I have seen
> some info about PulseAudio but don't know enough about it to judge its
> impact in this situation.  In order to explore this further I'm going
> to burn another fresh image, this time with Raspian Lite and go
> through this process again.
> 
> As before, I'll report back

IIRC Pulseaudio is now standard with Buster.  This can have an effect if
applications are sharing audio.

If there is no output with an ALSA device it is possible some other
application has already "opened" the device and so squeezelite has no
access - but no error will show.

Try enabling logging such as "-d output=info" to show what is happening
when handling output device



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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] CBC Canada track info plugin + PiCorePlayer + wrong track information

2021-02-18 Thread bpa


bobcoupee wrote: 
> I use the stream for CBC Music Eastern (Toronto, Canada / Pop) provided
> by the RadioNet plugin (which I believe is
> http://cbcmp3.ic.llnwd.net/stream/cbcmp3_cbc_r2_iet).
> 
> Is the information from the stream just incorrect? Is there a better one
> I can use.
> 
> I am using LMS Version: 8.1.2 - 1613284909, via PiCorePlayer v7.0.0.
> 
> Thanks in advance.

RadioNEt just provides the URL - it has no involvement when playing. Any
program metadata is in the radio stream. 

Have you installed the CBC plugins which provides the metadata for CBC
stream from the website ?



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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Squeezelite on rPi 3 suddenly not working

2021-02-18 Thread bpa


ryandkg wrote: 
> The 1.8 version is the one that is installed by the Add/Remove Software
> tool in RaspbianOS.  Also the version that is fetched using "apt-get"
> which I presume is the engine for the GUI tool.[/quopte]
> For some reason the Debian squeezelite does not seem to be maintained. I
> wouldn't use it as there are many bugs fixed since 1.8
> 
> > > > I had tried downloading and running the most recent build from the
> > Sourceforge repository a couple of days ago but that just led to some
> > other problems.> > 
> 
> These are probably finger trouble as many users use the SF builds on
> Raspbian. It is better to solve the install problem than use an old
> buggy player which will bring other mysterious problems when playing.
> 
> MAC address issue could be a case that network is not running before
> squeezelite is started - IIRC Squeezelite start should be made to be
> network dependent.
> 
> > > > In any case, I'm going to give the tutorial by *Man in a van* (ronnie) a
> > crack tomorrow with a fresh install.  Will report back.> > 
> 
> Report back. There are many users of same Squeezelite / Raspbian combo
> so it is likely any problem you encounter has already been seen.



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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Squeezelite on rPi 3 suddenly not working

2021-02-17 Thread bpa


ryandkg wrote: 
>  The squeezelite instance is reporting version 1.8 with playername
> "raspberry pi".  The player MAC address is appearing as
> 00:00:00:00:00:00

Follow "Main in a van" comments.

My observations: 1.8 is old - so whereever you are getting the
Squeezlite - stop using and find the up to date build - 1.9.8

MAC address should never be all zeroes - it is a bad foundation to do
testing.  On a Pi squeezelite usually finds the network address - if it
doesn't solve this problem before all others.



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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Help with Sox LMS 8.0.0

2021-02-14 Thread bpa


With Tidal you may come across 8.0.0 shortcomings so perhaps it is time
to start thinking about a Pi for LMS and files staying on Synology as it
seems to be the well trodden path for Synology users.

In the meantime, if you need sox - you could send a PM to Ralphy - he
has built the 3rd party tools for various platforms.



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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Help with Sox LMS 8.0.0

2021-02-13 Thread bpa


For Tidal, I think you should update to 8.1.*  - when 8.0.0 was
released, it was quickly updated as it had bugs. 8.1.* had even more
fixes and bugs especially for Tidal

Code:


  [21-02-13 17:44:22.4482] Slim::Player::TranscodingHelper::tokenizeConvertCo 
mmand2 (641) Using command for conversion: 
"/volume1/@appstore/SqueezeCenter/Bin/sox" -q -t flac - -t flac -
  [21-02-13 17:44:22.4487] Slim::Player::Song:: open (565) Tokenized command: 
"/volume1/@appstore/SqueezeCenter/Bin/sox" -q -t flac - -t flac -
  [21-02-13 17:44:22.4716] Slim::Player::StreamingController::_Stream (1282) 
00:04:20:07:0b:98: stream
  [21-02-13 17:44:22.4745] Slim::Player::StreamingController::_Stream (1319) 
Song queue is now 2
  [21-02-13 17:44:22.4752] Slim::Player::StreamingController::_setPlayingStat e 
(2377) new playing state BUFFERING
  [21-02-13 17:44:22.4757] Slim::Player::StreamingController::_setStreamingSt 
ate (2386) new streaming state STREAMING
  [21-02-13 17:44:22.5640] Slim::Player::Source::_readNextChunk (372) end of 
file or error on socket, song pos: 0
  [21-02-13 17:44:22.5646] Slim::Player::Source::_readNextChunk (377) 
00:04:20:07:0b:98 mark end of stream
  [21-02-13 17:44:22.5651] Slim::Player::Source::_readNextChunk (385) Didn't 
stream any bytes for this song; mark it as failed
  [21-02-13 17:44:22.5656] Slim::Player::StreamingController:: 
playerStreamingFailed (2248) 00:04:20:07:0b:98
  [21-02-13 17:44:22.5667] Slim::Player::StreamingController::_playersMessage 
(796) Problem: Can't open file for:: wimp://96206243.flac
  



The "end of file" error is typical of a problem in transcoding and since
only sox in trasncoding -  I think your version of sox doesn't run on
your system Maybe missing libraries, maybe wrong architecture (e.g.
armhf instead of armle).

Your sox reside at */volume1/@appstore/SqueezeCenter/Bin/sox*  - you
could try to run it form a shell prompt.

If it doesn't run, you could probably replace it with a good version
from older LMS since sox hasn't changed much.  If a "bad" sox was
packaged with LMS 8.0.0 , it may be a good reason to try 8.1.* as a good
version may now be packaged.



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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Help with Sox LMS 8.0.0

2021-02-13 Thread bpa


I'd advise get a log of trying to play a Flac track with player.source
set to INFO.

This will show whether the custom convert is working correctly and if
not how LMS is trying to invoke sox.

Usually there is a tab before the "[sox]" in the conf file but not sure
if it is significant or whether it is just not being shown by forum



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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce : BBC Sounds Plugin

2021-02-12 Thread bpa


expectingtofly wrote: 
> I'm pretty sure that is a unique feature to the BBC Sounds Plugin :) It
> automatically rewinds on the live stream from the schedule if the AOD is
> not available.   Neither the BBC sounds web player or App lets you
> rewind before the current programme,  admittedly they are pretty slick
> at at getting the AOD out nowadays.

LMS allows developers to get ahead of the BBC from time to time. 
When BBC added DASH streams as a beta facility - they only had a simple
JS player no metadata etc whereas BBCiPlayer plugin was able to use DASH
to provide better quality streams.



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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce : BBC Sounds Plugin

2021-02-12 Thread bpa


expectingtofly wrote: 
> You can rewind to previous programmes from the schedule (if they are not
> available as AOD yet).

The change was reflected in BBC Web player.
The original player was the same abs BBCiPlayer - the rewind could back
up to 3 hrs and schedule was displayed as there was a significant delay
before programmes were available AOD.
When web player was revised for BBC Sounds - it was changed to way BBC
Sound plugin operates.  Playing program from schedule.



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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce : BBC Sounds Plugin

2021-02-12 Thread bpa


slartibartfast wrote: 
> OK I didn't know they handled the streams differently.

The BBCIplayer plugin handles live radio as infinite stream but which
you could rewind up to 3hrs and so on say R4 could go back across a
number of programmes.  Since the introduction of HLS and DASH The BBC
evolved the metadata about programmes and rewind capability.  BBCiPlayer
plugin didn't change the underlying live stream mechanism from FLash and
AAC which were just infinite streams and no rewind.

BBC Sounds handles live radio programmes as a series of tracks of known
duration but I think you can only rewind to start of current programme.



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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] WaveInput plugin and Cirrus Logic (Wolfson) audio card

2021-02-12 Thread bpa


It would be better to use 

arecord -l

as that would only show the valid capture devices  - "aplay -L" shows
ALL alsa device playback and capture.

WaveInput is a LMS plugin and so audio input will only work on the Pi
which has both the Line-in hardware and LMS.

If want to use a Line-in on a PCP player (i.e. no LMS) - IIRC there is a
PCP facility to take Line input and stream it as a Http MP3 stream and
so "Line-in" can be played as a Favorite.



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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce : BBC Sounds Plugin

2021-02-08 Thread bpa


scooper wrote: 
> I've been unable to get any programs to play on BBC Sounds running on a
> Synology LMS. Given that I know that isn't supported anymore, I have set
> up a Raspberry Pi 4 running piCorePlayer. I have LMS 8.1.1 and version
> 2.13.3 of the BBC Sounds app running.
What version of IO::Socket::SSL does LMS show in the WebUI
Settings/Information tab



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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Squeezelite on rPi 3 suddenly not working

2021-02-07 Thread bpa


Ignore the visualisation for the moment - it is driven from the data
stream from LMS. 

No audio output is an issue with the output device. If as a result of
Pulseaudio or something else,  some other application has access to
audio output device - it can kill output from Squeezelite to same device
- Squeezelite wants sole access.

Please confirm your Raspbian version - I think it is Buster ?
Please confirm you want to use the HDMI port and not the Headphone ?
What Alsa device did you use on the Squeezelite command line  (e.g.
hw:CARD=b1,DEV=0   plughw:CARD=b1,DEV=0 )

When test playing with omxplayer are using "-o hdmi" or "-o
alsa:"

If using "-o hdmi" - test playing with omxplayer using same Alsa device
as you use on Squeezelite ?

What is the full command line you use to play squeezelite to output on
HDMI ?



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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Squeezelite on rPi 3 suddenly not working

2021-02-06 Thread bpa


ehjones wrote: 
> I'll try specifying an output device, thank you // edit: no change :(

Not clear what that update is. OS Update could change changed output
devices - if it is a big version change to Buster - you may now have
Pulseaudio.

What does squeezelite -l (lower case letter L) show for available
devices.


Please try to upgrade Squeezelite to a 1.9.8 in case it is a bug which
has already been fixed.



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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Squeezelite on rPi 3 suddenly not working

2021-02-06 Thread bpa


ehjones wrote: 
> Any ideas how to troubleshoot this further, please? Thank you!

What could have changed ?

Between playing tracks did it suddenly stop ? or was there a gap in
usage between workg and not working when something happened (e.g. OS
update)

>From log - it looks like squeezelite is v1.8.*  - update to latest (e.g.
1.9.8)  to be sure it is not an old bug that ghas been fixed..

edit:

It looks like no output device specific on command line. Don't use
default output device as that can change "randomly" - always specify the
output device.



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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce : BBC Sounds Plugin

2021-02-05 Thread bpa


Poldark wrote: 
> This is probably me remembering wrongly, but I thought the BBC Sounds
> App provided best quality streams (320kbps?).
> 
> I'm using the plug-in on LMS feeding a RPi 3B (running Picoreplayer)
> into a Caiman SEG via Optical and the Radio 2 live stream shows at
> 96kbps on my Squeezer App.
> 
> Is there a setting I've not got right, or am I just deluded about BBC
> Sounds stream quality?

96k is best quality if outside the UK.



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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Community Firmware for Squeezebox Radio/Touch/Controller and LMS 8

2021-02-03 Thread bpa


Heuer wrote: 
> Boom with Community f/w?

Only the "new" products Touch, Radio and Controller (Lua & C, ARM
processor & Linux kernel) could be updated as some of the source code
and build environment is available.

The older IPK based products such as SB3/Classic, Receiver, Boom &
Trasnproter cannot be modified becuase
1. No source code available.
2. Even if LMS player code was available - lots of proprietary licensed
software such as the OS and decoders.
3. No build environment for the IP3K processors which are specialised
and so require proprietary development tools.



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