Hi there. I need to setup a cron task that starts a player on random tracks, with fade-in (yes, I know alarm does that.) I'm using squeezy or the telnet CLI I generate the random playlist with "<player> playlist add randomplay://tracks", then I expected the player would start smoothly with something like "<player> playlist index 0 100".
However this is rarely the case. Many times the player will start at normal volume without fade-in. Squeezy seems to report a timeout in the JSON client. I examined track duration, file format and system load, however I don't see why fadeInSecs is sometimes taken into account, and often not. The server is a Pi with an USB HDD, it isn't fast and one core is loaded at 100% for a little while when the URL is converted into a list of tracks. I didn't find a way to generate the actual playlist without starting to play it right away (ie without using "index 0"). I would rather not step player volume over a period of time in the script, but now I am tempted to try that... Thanks in advance for any advice. 3 SB 3 Libratone Loop, Zipp Mini iPeng (iPhone + iPad) LMS 7.9 (linux) with plugins: CD Player, WaveInput, Triode's BBC iPlayer by bpa IRBlaster by Gwendesign (Felix) Server Power Control by Gordon Harris Smart Mix, Music Walk With Me, What Was That Tune? by Michael Herger PowerSave by Jason Holtzapple Song Info, Song Lyrics by Erland Isaksson AirPlay Bridge by philippe_44 WeatherTime by Martin Rehfeld Auto Dim Display, SaverSwitcher, ContextMenu by Peter Watkins. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ epoch1970's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16711 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=108001
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