Re: [slim] Do any Squeezeplayers actually have the horsepower to play 192/24 remote streams?

2012-11-17 Thread AndrewFG
Triode wrote: Touch is the only player which can play 192k streams and needs 7.8 if its wav. If the requirement is to stream from another source on the local lan then I don't see why this will be any different from streaming from the LMS - the client code in squeezeplay is the same.

Re: [slim] Do any Squeezeplayers actually have the horsepower to play 192/24 remote streams?

2012-11-15 Thread AndrewFG
Triode wrote: For pcm streams which are received without any transcoding, the critical thing is for LMS to tell the player what the bitrate/sample depth is in advance. This means custom protocol handler or LMS connecting to the remote stream to parse the audio stream and then telling the

Re: [slim] Do any Squeezeplayers actually have the horsepower to play 192/24 remote streams?

2012-11-14 Thread AndrewFG
MrC wrote: Think: Local LAN DLNA. Thank you MrC !! -- You got there before me. Yes indeed, the context is my Whitebear application which provides extended UPnP / DLNA functionality to the Squeezebox world. There are quite a few UPnP / DLNA media Control Points coming out that have the

Re: [slim] Do any Squeezeplayers actually have the horsepower to play 192/24 remote streams?

2012-11-14 Thread AndrewFG
JJZolx wrote: You don't say which players you've tried without success. Transporter, Squeezeplay and Radio... JJZolx wrote: One thing I've noticed about 24-bit FLAC is that the compression ratios tend to be much worse than their 16-bit counterparts, so that will compound the problem.

Re: [slim] Do any Squeezeplayers actually have the horsepower to play 192/24 remote streams?

2012-11-14 Thread AndrewFG
JJZolx wrote: I may not understand the protocols that well, but I don't see what this could have to do with your problem. Obviously the content-length won't be correct, and since I've seen typical 16/44.1 material that can have compression rates anywhere from 20% to 70%, the number can be

Re: [slim] Do any Squeezeplayers actually have the horsepower to play 192/24 remote streams?

2012-11-14 Thread AndrewFG
Mnyb wrote: Did you try a wired player (not wifi ) ? Yes. Of course. Mnyb wrote: 16vs 24bit flac ,the difference can be natural as the s/n ratio of most recordings are not that great ,then the lowest bit are all pure stochastic noise in 24bit material hence it will not compress very much.

Re: [slim] Do any Squeezeplayers actually have the horsepower to play 192/24 remote streams?

2012-11-14 Thread AndrewFG
pippin wrote: I'm still confused about whether you are talking about LAN (this works, you probably know that, so I assumed that's not what you were asking about), about using a certain streaming service, then I would wonder who does such a ridiculous thing as wasting tons of expensive

Re: [slim] Do any Squeezeplayers actually have the horsepower to play 192/24 remote streams?

2012-11-14 Thread AndrewFG
pippin wrote: In a squeezebox system the player would not use the size for a seek operation but the server would tell the player which offset to use, maybe that's the difference. That is correct. In the case of a squeezebox system, if the remote server does not furnish a ContentLength then

Re: [slim] Updating Squeezebox Radio to Smart Radio

2012-11-13 Thread AndrewFG
castalla wrote: The key issue is whether this process can be reversed? And the *other* key issue is whether the Smart Radio version allows you (reversibly) to connect the player to either one of 1) LMS (last released version), 2) mysqueezebox.com, 3) my-ue-thingy.com ??

[slim] Do any Squeezeplayers actually have the horsepower to play 192/24 remote streams?

2012-11-13 Thread AndrewFG
I have been experimenting a bit with try to get Squeeze players to play remote hi-res stream files e.g. via Tune-In Url. I am not convinced that they really have the horsepower to download and play such streams. In my experience they are always running out of buffer and you get continuous

Re: [slim] Do any Squeezeplayers actually have the horsepower to play 192/24 remote streams?

2012-11-13 Thread AndrewFG
pippin wrote: What on earth should that be good for? Sorry Pippin but I don't understand your point. AndrewFG's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15838 View this thread:

Re: [slim] UE Boombox

2012-11-06 Thread AndrewFG
musicom wrote: Keep in mind that Bluetooth is a lossy transmission method, so you throw all semblance of quality out the door when you use it. Sonos and Squeezebox uses lossless transmission protocols over wi fi and are bit accurate up to the limits of the DAC in the SB or Sonos device

Re: [slim] I HAVE SEEN THE FUTURE! It doesn't look good ...

2012-11-02 Thread AndrewFG
ModelCitizen wrote: ... Logitech's decision to make the functionality of their players so heavily dependent on MSB was an atrocious one. ... I don't think that anyone save some stupid Logitech manager thought it was a good idea. ... it is the sort of short-sighted, short-term,

Re: [slim] Customising the display on Players

2012-10-13 Thread AndrewFG
cparker wrote: Hi Hope its semi-helpful :) Wow. Thank you for the info. But it seems that I have to learn a whole new programming language first... :-( AndrewFG's Profile:

Re: [slim] Customising the display on Players

2012-10-12 Thread AndrewFG
MelonMonkey wrote: The classic players have a dot matrix display, not a one line display, and can be made, through settings and/or plugins to display anything you want. The remote features a size button that switches between three different display modes (or layouts), but via plugins you can

[slim] Customising the display on Players

2012-10-11 Thread AndrewFG
On players with a one line display (Squeezeboxes, Transporter, Boom) you can customise the display e.g. TRACKNUM. TITLE - ARTIST - ALBUM (YEAR) But it seems that on players with a three line display (Radio, Controller, etc.) you get three fixed lines TITLE, ARTIST, ALBUM with no way to

Re: [slim] Return to Slimdevices??

2012-09-17 Thread AndrewFG
epoch1970 wrote: Could the continuation as UER be a simple matter of sustaining the fair value of the asset ? I'm not exactly clear as to when fair valuation applies. When one acquires a company they usually pay more than book value, this being the value of tangible assets like cash,

Re: [slim] Return to Slimdevices??

2012-09-17 Thread AndrewFG
signor_rossi wrote: But can Logitech make a profit with the UER alone? If they don't they would lose less if they sell what they can sell? Not necessarily. It depends on the math. Let's take the hypothesis that Slim Devices had (say) a book value of $100, and Logitech paid (say) $250 for it.

Re: [slim] Announce: Whitebear Media Server v2.2 Released

2012-08-12 Thread AndrewFG
psketch wrote: I wondered if any progress had been made on xbox360 support with Whitebear and if anyone had it working? Most other clients seem to work nicely with Whitebear, but I can't get the xbox to see the server at all from its Music Player. I've been able to see other UPNP servers

Re: [slim] Announce: Whitebear Media Server v2.2 Released

2012-08-12 Thread AndrewFG
psketch wrote: Yes, happy to work with you on this. I'll enable that logging later and come back to you - shall we switch this to PM for now? Great. I will send you a PM now. AndrewFG's Profile:

Re: [slim] Announce: Whitebear Media Server v2.2 Released

2012-08-12 Thread AndrewFG
vagskal wrote: ... wonder if you could be so kind to have a look when you have the time. Or do you prefer I post here? I will look at it and respond in the MC Forum. AndrewFG's Profile:

Re: [slim] What if Logitech pulls the plug

2012-07-02 Thread AndrewFG
erland wrote: The issue with Spotify is that I don't think it expose a http url, it just expose a spotify identity and the player have to understand that and use Spotify API on the player side to get the audio data. Is something like that possible through UPnP or does UPnP require that the

Re: [slim] What if Logitech pulls the plug

2012-07-02 Thread AndrewFG
erland wrote: The whole point of using UPnP ... is if it allows me to mix players, controllers and servers from different manufacturers in the same system, if I'm forced to use only components from the same manufacturer I suspect I will be better of using their proprietary protocols.

Re: [slim] What if Logitech pulls the plug

2012-06-28 Thread AndrewFG
erland wrote: The issue with Spotify is that I don't think it expose a http url, it just expose a spotify identity and the player have to understand that and use Spotify API on the player side to get the audio data. Is something like that possible through UPnP or does UPnP require that the

Re: [slim] What if Logitech pulls the plug

2012-06-28 Thread AndrewFG
pippin wrote: How do you usually handle Ogg or FLAC? The UPnP server side of Whitebear offers tracks in: lpcm (transcoded), mp3 (transcoded), and native (if native is not already mp3), and the remote UPnP player can decide, depending on its capabilities, which of those three offers it

Re: [slim] What if Logitech pulls the plug

2012-06-28 Thread AndrewFG
erland wrote: So since online streaming services is the future, it feels like UPnP has to have support for things like this if it want to be the future solution for music streaming. Else it will only be the future for locally stored music and that's something that's likely going to be less

Re: [slim] What if Logitech pulls the plug

2012-06-28 Thread AndrewFG
pippin wrote: Believe me, I read the specs. Most of them at least. And I did make an effort. I even implemented some of the more obscure parts of the spec myself, I know it quite a bit by now. Ok, pippin, I did not mean to put you down. But, (I don't want to brag about it this), I would

Re: [slim] What if Logitech pulls the plug

2012-06-28 Thread AndrewFG
pippin wrote: So you transcode FLAC or OGG to mp3 and lpcm? Yes. As mentioned before, the media server side of Whitebear offers each track in 3 formats lpcm, mp3 and native (e.g. flac). And the player is free to select which one of those three offers it wants to download. If the player selects

Re: [slim] What if Logitech pulls the plug

2012-06-28 Thread AndrewFG
pippin wrote: Now give me one or two examples of devices that can do multiroom sync using UPnP I don't know of any such devices. But to be honest I have not surveyed the player market very much. My point is that it is wrong to blame the specification for such lack of multi-player sync;

Re: [slim] What if Logitech pulls the plug

2012-06-28 Thread AndrewFG
erland wrote: Thanks for the information, it's good to know that the UPnP standard is prepared for it. Now I'm just getting a bit worried the music industry will ensure we will end up with something like HDCP that causes even more struggling and incompatibilities for end consumers. Do

Re: [slim] What if Logitech pulls the plug

2012-06-28 Thread AndrewFG
pippin wrote: What is interesting here? They bought Twonky, who make what still probably is the most ubiquitous server SW used in many embedded devices, not really a surprise I would think.Oh. You are not surprised that such a company is investing in active support of what you consider to

Re: [slim] What if Logitech pulls the plug

2012-06-27 Thread AndrewFG
erland wrote: Now, let's say I would like to replace all this setup with something completely based on UPnP, are there any recommendations from someone that believes in UPnP and know it's possible to accomplish something that works with UPnP ? Is it even possible to accomplish something

Re: [slim] What if Logitech pulls the plug

2012-06-27 Thread AndrewFG
erland wrote: - Is smart playlists supported if I control the player with a tablet and use JRiver Media Center as server ? Sorry Erland, but I don't know what you mean by a smart playlist? erland wrote: - Is Dynamic Playlist plugin provided smart playlists supported if I use

Re: [slim] What if Logitech pulls the plug

2012-06-27 Thread AndrewFG
erland wrote: Minimum requirement would be possibility to have an automatic playlist that either: - Contains all tracks in my library except for those I've marked it to ignore. The ignore can be accomplished with low ratings or something similar, doesn't matter as long it works. I don't

Re: [slim] What if Logitech pulls the plug

2012-06-27 Thread AndrewFG
erland wrote: The issue with Spotify is that I don't think it expose a http url, it just expose a spotify identity and the player have to understand that and use Spotify API on the player side to get the audio data. Is something like that possible through UPnP or does UPnP require that the

Re: [slim] Perfectwave DAC with bridge and LMS

2012-06-27 Thread AndrewFG
adamdea wrote: Is there any way I can retain the functionality of LMS while using a PS audio dac with bridge. Should this work with LMS as it is , or via some other program eg whitebear. You will need to provide us with the specs of the device. A quick google indicates that the PS audio

Re: [slim] What if Logitech pulls the plug

2012-06-25 Thread AndrewFG
djdrey wrote: It would be sad if they did, but considering the audio world seems to be turning into a ipod/Apple mono-culture, it seems like it could easily go that way. Fortunately, the music world is *not* going in the direction of an Apple mono-culture. Actually the real trend is towards

Re: [slim] What if Logitech pulls the plug

2012-06-25 Thread AndrewFG
pippin wrote: The problem with UPnP is that it sucks as a standard (especially UPnP AV) If you want to make an assertion like that, you have to provide us with specifics. { IMHO, as in a court of law, your assertion is wrong until proven otherwise. } pippin wrote: ... and more

Re: [slim] What if Logitech pulls the plug

2012-06-25 Thread AndrewFG
pippin wrote: No, it's just my opinion after spending quite a bit of time on the topic over the last year. It's overly complex, uses badly performing interfaces like SOAP and the architecture is 1990ish not taking into account the realities of today's world. Well, I have spent more than a

Re: [slim] Announce: Whitebear Media Server v2.2 Released

2012-06-10 Thread AndrewFG
IMGrant wrote: Is it possible to customize the names of the Whitebear server and renderers? I don't like that it adds '(by Whitebear)' to the names. Ummm. Well, no... (I don't get paid for this, so the reward is my advertising...)

Re: [slim] Play to SqueezeBox from Windows?

2012-06-07 Thread AndrewFG
vinhattieu wrote: I've installed White Bear and WMP Tag Plus, but I cannot play Flacs to my Touch (it works fine with Mp3). WMP keeps saying contacting media server and nothing happens. WMP will not natively support Play To of FLAC files unless it has a 3rd party *Media Foundation* codec

Re: [slim] Announce: Whitebear Media Server v2.2 Released

2012-06-01 Thread AndrewFG
Morph666 wrote: What would be great is to use xbmc in normal way to play music and send the music to squeezebox. Is this possible in any way? Yes xbmc should be able to Play To your Squeezebox (by Whitebear). You need to check that it is a fairly recent version that has the capability to

Re: [slim] Announce: Whitebear Media Server v2.2 Released

2012-05-20 Thread AndrewFG
batka wrote: I wonder whether is it possible to use Whitebear with a remote Squeezebox Server? However it would be a great feature if the IP also could be specified, so that Whitebear would connect to remote Squeezebox Server. Unfortunately this is not possible because Whitebear also

Re: [slim] Announce: Whitebear Media Server v2.2 Released

2012-05-09 Thread AndrewFG
bsmith1051 wrote: Isn't this the functionality that Whitebear is supposed to add? Yes, LMS added this in v7.7 (or v7.6 I don't recall). But Whitebear had it first !! So you have two options: a) use the LMS UPnP/DLNA plugin, or b) use Whitebear. IMHO Whitebear still provides better

Re: [slim] Browsing these forums in a PDA

2012-05-06 Thread AndrewFG
Recoveryone wrote: If you are running windows mobile 6.5 you have most likely a Samsung Jack/blackJack phone. but still they are able to by id as a mobile device and get an option to use which format. you may need to see if an update is available for the phone or re-install windows 6.5.

Re: [slim] Announce: Whitebear Media Server v2.2 Released

2012-05-05 Thread AndrewFG
*Setting up Windows Media Player 12 to play FLAC files to a UPnP/DLNA Renderer (Player) via the Play To command* -*Note*: the following only works on Windows Media Player 12 running on Windows 7 or Vista- 1) Uninstall any previously installed *DirectShow* codecs related to playing FLAC files;

Re: [slim] Browsing these forums in a PDA

2012-05-05 Thread AndrewFG
routehero wrote: If it detects you as a mobile, it should place you in the mobile skin by default. Well presumably it doesn't detect me as a mobile, because it doesn't place me in the mobile skin. routehero wrote: At the very bottom of the page, you should see something that says Full

[slim] Browsing these forums in a PDA

2012-05-03 Thread AndrewFG
I have a Samsung mock Blackberry pda, and the fancy new skin of these forums won't render any more on that device. So is there some other url where one browse these forums in a lightweight manner on a pda? AndrewFG's

Re: [slim] Browsing these forums in a PDA

2012-05-03 Thread AndrewFG
mherger wrote: You should be able to select a smartphone skin at the bottom of the page. Doesn't this work for you either? Apparently not. Maybe I am overlooking something, but I don't see anywhere that such a skin selection would be done.

Re: [slim] Announce: Whitebear Media Server v2.2 Released

2012-04-30 Thread AndrewFG
NogNeetMachinaal wrote: what is the value of Whitebear? At a basic level, the LMS/SBS DLNA plug-in does the same thing as Whitebear; but IMHO the plug-in is not compatible with some Control Points and Renderers, and it lacks features too. But if the LMS/SBS DLNA plug-in works for you

Re: [slim] Announce: Whitebear Media Server v2.2 Released

2012-04-30 Thread AndrewFG
NogNeetMachinaal wrote: So if I disable the plugin on LMS and install Whitebear, which application serves which request? And how do these two communicate with each other - if at all? Whitebear provides a UPnP/DLNA open system front end to LMS/SBS proprietary back end. And yes, of course

Re: [slim] Announce: Whitebear Media Server v2.2 Released

2012-04-30 Thread AndrewFG
AndrewFG wrote: This confirms my suspicion that the problem is on the side of your codecs. And *not* a problem with Whitebear. Hi Wigster, I found you a solution. I sent you a PM explaining it. Please test it, and if it works, I will publish it here

Re: [slim] Announce: Whitebear Media Server v2.2 Released

2012-04-29 Thread AndrewFG
NogNeetMachinaal wrote: So in other words: If I have another collection of MP3 stored on my laptop (for example), I can use Whitebear to stream these to the Squeezebox(es) without copying and rescanning. The Logitech Media Server is used as a sort of proxy server to keep things in sync

Re: [slim] Cool

2012-04-29 Thread AndrewFG
billybeek wrote: ... football fields full of washing machines. Sounds like one of todays server farms. (Only the washing machines now have a tumble dryer stacked on top too...) AndrewFG's Profile:

Re: [slim] Cool

2012-04-27 Thread AndrewFG
froth wrote: other leading edge computer systems When I learned programming as a teenager at school, the language was Fortran (Purdue University Fast Fortran Translator PUFFT), we used 80 column cards for input, and the IBM Port-a-Punch to write them; -- and when you made a typo you would

Re: [slim] Announce: Whitebear Media Server v2.2 Released

2012-04-25 Thread AndrewFG
Wigster wrote: I cannot get WB to connect to SBS: WB is complaining that the CLI connection if offline, even though it does find the CLI server on port 9090. Edit 2: After a bunch of restarts, this seems to have cleared itself up. But I am not sure whether it is somehow related to the

Re: [slim] Announce: Whitebear Media Server v2.2 Released

2012-04-25 Thread AndrewFG
AndrewFG wrote: Ok. I will study your PM and get back to you. I believe this is a WMP-12 / Shark issue and not a Whitebear issue... I studied your log. it shows that WMP is talking to Whitebear, and send many SOAP GetXyz() commands and one single Stop() command to the player. All

Re: [slim] Announce: Whitebear Media Server v2.2 Released

2012-04-23 Thread AndrewFG
Wigster wrote: That's the weirdest thing: With version 2.1 (and before) I could play both MP3 and FLAC. Then 2.2 broke the FLAC support and now that I've installed 2.3, mp3s don't work either, it seems in exactly the same way. I've tried going back to no avail, so I've no idea if it's just

Re: [slim] Announce: Whitebear Media Server v2.2 Released

2012-04-23 Thread AndrewFG
Wigster wrote: ...I am not sure exactly which upgrade/change broke what. What version of LMS are you running? I have a suspicion that 7.7.2 broke something, because for me now it also does not work any more. AndrewFG's

Re: [slim] Announce: Whitebear Media Server v2.2 Released

2012-04-22 Thread AndrewFG
Wigster wrote: I am not sure what happened, but somewhere between my running WB 2.1 (where everything worked) and installing 2.3, the playback of files in the WMP library to the Squeezebox broke. I have tried going back to WB 2.1, but this does not fix the issue anymore. At some point I did

Re: [slim] Announce: Whitebear Media Server v2.2 Released

2012-04-20 Thread AndrewFG
papaiannis wrote: I thought that the WhiteBear proxy made a UPnP device look like a Logitech device to LMS. Wrong!! ( WhiteBear makes Logitech devices look like UPnP devices to UPnP control points... ) AndrewFG's

Re: [slim] Announce: Whitebear Media Server v2.2 Released

2012-04-19 Thread AndrewFG
papaiannis wrote: I'd like to have my popcorn c200 media server behaving as a squeezebox player. Given that c200 supports DLNA/UPnP rendering, may the Whitebear proxy be used to bridge a LMS to my c200? My ultimate target is to remotely control the c200/squeezeplayer with my Squeezebox

Re: [slim] Announce: Whitebear Media Server v2.2 Released

2012-03-31 Thread AndrewFG
almost certainly won't work...) -- AndrewFG Regards, AndrewFG Try out Whitebear. The middleware that joins the two worlds of: 1. UPnP/DLNA media clients and media players, and, 2. Squeezebox Server and Squeeze Players Download it for free here: http://www.whitebear.ch/mediaserver

Re: [slim] Play to SqueezeBox from Windows?

2012-03-25 Thread AndrewFG
... -- AndrewFG Regards, AndrewFG Try out Whitebear. The middleware that joins the two worlds of: 1. UPnP/DLNA media clients and media players, and, 2. Squeezebox Server and Squeeze Players Download it for free here: http://www.whitebear.ch/mediaserver

Re: [slim] Announce: Whitebear Media Server v2.2 Released

2012-03-25 Thread AndrewFG
? -- AndrewFG Regards, AndrewFG Try out Whitebear. The middleware that joins the two worlds of: 1. UPnP/DLNA media clients and media players, and, 2. Squeezebox Server and Squeeze Players Download it for free here: http://www.whitebear.ch/mediaserver

Re: [slim] Announce: Whitebear Media Server v2.2 Released

2012-03-12 Thread AndrewFG
AndrewFG;681862 Wrote: I have added support for SetNextAvTransportURI in Whitebear, but it turns out that JRMC does not call it. It seems they announced support for SetNextAvTransportURI in their RENDERER for those control points that support it, but they did not choose to support

Re: [slim] Announce: Whitebear Media Server v2.2 Released

2012-02-25 Thread AndrewFG
testing by the guys over at J. River. If I get positive feedback both here and on the J. River forum, that the fixes work, and that nothing else got broken, then I expect to post the new version officially in a few days time. -- AndrewFG Regards, AndrewFG Try out Whitebear. The middleware

Re: [slim] Announce: Whitebear Media Server v2.2 Released

2012-02-15 Thread AndrewFG
days or so... -- AndrewFG Regards, AndrewFG Try out Whitebear. The middleware that joins the two worlds of: 1. UPnP/DLNA media clients and media players, and, 2. Squeezebox Server and Squeeze Players Download it for free here: http://www.whitebear.ch/mediaserver

Re: [slim] Announce: Whitebear Media Server v2.2 Released

2012-02-13 Thread AndrewFG
and the other doesn't sounds unusual... What type of player are you using? Is it a Touch? Does it have in player support for Flac and not Aac? Or vice versa? And what version of SBS/LMS are you using? -- AndrewFG Regards, AndrewFG Try out Whitebear. The middleware that joins the two worlds of: 1. UPnP

Re: [slim] Google is developing wireless music system

2012-02-10 Thread AndrewFG
companies with whom they are in direct competion on the hardware side. -- AndrewFG Regards, AndrewFG Try out Whitebear. The middleware that joins the two worlds of: 1. UPnP/DLNA media clients and media players, and, 2. Squeezebox Server and Squeeze Players Download it for free here: http

Re: [slim] Announce: Whitebear Media Server v2.2 Released

2012-02-09 Thread AndrewFG
in the Play To functionality. Players should now display much more track meta data and album art. Also if you Play To with WAV, PCM or AIF, then Whitebear fixes the above mentioned LMS/SBS problems with Seek and Pause, by proxying the streams and applying the Seek internally itself. -- AndrewFG

Re: [slim] Announce: Whitebear Media Server v2.2 Released

2012-02-07 Thread AndrewFG
AndrewFG;687266 Wrote: This is a bug in Whitebear that I will fix in a forthcoming release.I posted some PMs to people involved in this thread, with a lonk where you can get the next pre-release version of Whitebear that should fix the various issues raised. -- AndrewFG Regards, AndrewFG

Re: [slim] Announce: Whitebear Media Server v2.2 Released

2012-01-29 Thread AndrewFG
please give me more details of what parts of Shark you installed, and how you set it up? I am running Windows 7 64 bit, and I am wondering if that makes any difference. -- AndrewFG Regards, AndrewFG Try out Whitebear. The middleware that joins the two worlds of: 1. UPnP/DLNA media clients and media

Re: [slim] Announce: Whitebear Media Server v2.2 Released

2012-01-29 Thread AndrewFG
internally inside the O/S or inside LAN interface. Is the machine actually still connected to the network, or is its network disabled at this time? Could you please record me a log from Whitebear? Turn on logging of Http Server and Http client (Gena -- AndrewFG Regards, AndrewFG Try out

Re: [slim] Announce: Whitebear Media Server v2.2 Released

2012-01-29 Thread AndrewFG
on transactions between JRMC and Whitebear within the 192.168.1.2 machine. Is that correct? If so, can you please stop the other JRMC on 192.168.1.176 and the MiniUPnPC/1.3 on 192.168.1.3, (so we are are testing the 192.168.1.2 stuff only), and please let me know if the problem goes away? -- AndrewFG

Re: [slim] Announce: Whitebear Media Server v2.2 Released

2012-01-29 Thread AndrewFG
. -- AndrewFG Regards, AndrewFG Try out Whitebear. The middleware that joins the two worlds of: 1. UPnP/DLNA media clients and media players, and, 2. Squeezebox Server and Squeeze Players Download it for free here: http://www.whitebear.ch/mediaserver

Re: [slim] Announce: Whitebear Media Server v2.2 Released

2012-01-26 Thread AndrewFG
to the eventing system), even though the CP did not issue that play command itself. So can you please be more specific about what is not working for you, and under what circumstances? -- AndrewFG Regards, AndrewFG Try out Whitebear. The middleware that joins the two worlds of: 1. UPnP/DLNA media

Re: [slim] Announce: Whitebear Media Server v2.2 Released

2012-01-26 Thread AndrewFG
Bert003;686515 Wrote: I use Inguz Audio's plugin with LMS. Is it possible with Whitebear to stream the processed signal by Inguz Audio plugin to UPNP streaming clients?Sorry but I don't know enough about Inguz to answer this. What does Inguz do? -- AndrewFG Regards, AndrewFG Try out

Re: [slim] Announce: Whitebear Media Server v2.2 Released

2012-01-22 Thread AndrewFG
to get this new pre-version. -- AndrewFG Regards, AndrewFG Try out Whitebear. The middleware that joins the two worlds of: 1. UPnP/DLNA media clients and media players, and, 2. Squeezebox Server and Squeeze Players Download it for free here: http://www.whitebear.ch/mediaserver

Re: [slim] Announce: Whitebear Media Server v2.2 Released

2012-01-22 Thread AndrewFG
)p(;685659 Wrote: Working :)In the meantime, I found a big bug in that pre- release version, so have put up another one... -- AndrewFG Regards, AndrewFG Try out Whitebear. The middleware that joins the two worlds of: 1. UPnP/DLNA media clients and media players, and, 2. Squeezebox Server

Re: [slim] Announce: Whitebear Media Server v2.2 Released

2012-01-15 Thread AndrewFG
Wigster;683872 Wrote: as far as I can tell, you seem to think that (1) should not be working?Indeed. But who's complaining :-) -- AndrewFG Regards, AndrewFG Try out Whitebear. The middleware that joins the two worlds of: 1. UPnP/DLNA media clients and media players, and, 2. Squeezebox

Re: [slim] Announce: Whitebear Media Server v2.2 Released

2012-01-12 Thread AndrewFG
personal encoding scheme for complex genre tags... -- AndrewFG Regards, AndrewFG Try out Whitebear. The middleware that joins the two worlds of: 1. UPnP/DLNA media clients and media players, and, 2. Squeezebox Server and Squeeze Players Download it for free here: http://www.whitebear.ch/mediaserver

Re: [slim] Announce: Whitebear Media Server v2.2 Released

2012-01-12 Thread AndrewFG
. However in the meantime downgrading to 7.6 should see you right, until my update is released. -- AndrewFG Regards, AndrewFG Try out Whitebear. The middleware that joins the two worlds of: 1. UPnP/DLNA media clients and media players, and, 2. Squeezebox Server and Squeeze Players Download

Re: [slim] Announce: Whitebear Media Server v2.2 Released

2012-01-12 Thread AndrewFG
)p(;683415 Wrote: Yes it does only use one setting for multi items for artist, album and genre. I have it set to ;.Cool. I will add this feature to my current work-in-progress next release. -- AndrewFG Regards, AndrewFG Try out Whitebear. The middleware that joins the two worlds of: 1

Re: [slim] Announce: Whitebear Media Server v2.2 Released

2012-01-10 Thread AndrewFG
a change in the SystemUpdateID in Whitebear. And JRMC should notice this change in SystemUpdateId and automatically start to refresh its database. However to be honest, I have only tested this on Windows Media Player (where it works fine) and not on JRMC. -- AndrewFG Regards, AndrewFG Try out

Re: [slim] Announce: Whitebear Media Server v2.2 Released

2012-01-10 Thread AndrewFG
and reinstalling Whitebear. Or?? -- AndrewFG Regards, AndrewFG Try out Whitebear. The middleware that joins the two worlds of: 1. UPnP/DLNA media clients and media players, and, 2. Squeezebox Server and Squeeze Players Download it for free here: http://www.whitebear.ch/mediaserver

Re: [slim] Announce: Whitebear Media Server v2.2 Released

2012-01-10 Thread AndrewFG
but they do not help WMP to stream those formats to other 3rd party players using the Play To command (don't ask me why). This is a weakness of WMP and/or the Shark add-ins, and is not the fault of Whitebear or LMS. -- AndrewFG Regards, AndrewFG Try out Whitebear. The middleware that joins

Re: [slim] Announce: Whitebear Media Server v2.2 Released

2012-01-09 Thread AndrewFG
noticed in Whitebear under settings the Client http user agent header settings is now greyed out. It was not in earlier versions of whitebear.I will check later to see if I can repeat this issue on my test system... -- AndrewFG Regards, AndrewFG Try out Whitebear. The middleware that joins

Re: [slim] Announce: Whitebear Media Server v2.2 Released

2012-01-09 Thread AndrewFG
for video and other media. Then you could create playlists of intermixed items from any library that could be Played To a Squeezeplayer by Whitebear -- albeit using slightly different mechanisms. ;-) -- AndrewFG Regards, AndrewFG Try out Whitebear. The middleware that joins the two worlds of: 1

Re: [slim] Announce: Whitebear Media Server v2.2 Released

2012-01-08 Thread AndrewFG
, I have to say that I prefer case 1). So finally it is just a matter of choice... -- AndrewFG Regards, AndrewFG Try out Whitebear. The middleware that joins the two worlds of: 1. UPnP/DLNA media clients and media players, and, 2. Squeezebox Server and Squeeze Players Download it for free here

Re: [slim] Announce: Whitebear Media Server v2.2 Released

2012-01-08 Thread AndrewFG
)p(;682512 Wrote: Ok let it play for a few hours. 100% ok even when adding songs, using shuffle or reshuffle while still playing.Yes! The Whitebear _is_ coool... -- AndrewFG Regards, AndrewFG Try out Whitebear. The middleware that joins the two worlds of: 1. UPnP/DLNA media clients

Re: [slim] Announce: Whitebear Media Server v2.2 Released

2012-01-07 Thread AndrewFG
version will be released on the web site in a couple of days. -- AndrewFG Regards, AndrewFG Try out Whitebear. The middleware that joins the two worlds of: 1. UPnP/DLNA media clients and media players, and, 2. Squeezebox Server and Squeeze Players Download it for free here: http://www.whitebear.ch

Re: [slim] Announce: Whitebear Media Server v2.2 Released

2012-01-06 Thread AndrewFG
friendly towards the external developer community... -- AndrewFG Regards, AndrewFG Try out Whitebear. The middleware that joins the two worlds of: 1. UPnP/DLNA media clients and media players, and, 2. Squeezebox Server and Squeeze Players Download it for free here: http://www.whitebear.ch

Re: [slim] Announce: Whitebear Media Server v2.2 Released

2012-01-06 Thread AndrewFG
latency and rounding up/down to the nearest second; and the larger the progress position, the smaller is the relative impact of rounding... )p(;682050 Wrote: Did you get a response from jriver about the SetNextAvTransportURI support in jrmc?I did not check yet :-( -- AndrewFG Regards, AndrewFG Try

Re: [slim] Announce: Whitebear Media Server v2.2 Released

2012-01-05 Thread AndrewFG
about it on their forum... -- AndrewFG Regards, AndrewFG Try out Whitebear. The middleware that joins the two worlds of: 1. UPnP/DLNA media clients and media players, and, 2. Squeezebox Server and Squeeze Players Download it for free here: http://www.whitebear.ch/mediaserver

Re: [slim] Announce: Whitebear Media Server v2.2 Released

2012-01-05 Thread AndrewFG
that will be better in the morning. But in the worst case please send me another log ;-) -- AndrewFG Regards, AndrewFG Try out Whitebear. The middleware that joins the two worlds of: 1. UPnP/DLNA media clients and media players, and, 2. Squeezebox Server and Squeeze Players Download it for free here

Re: [slim] Announce: Whitebear Media Server v2.2 Released

2012-01-05 Thread AndrewFG
CPs will implement it... -- AndrewFG Regards, AndrewFG Try out Whitebear. The middleware that joins the two worlds of: 1. UPnP/DLNA media clients and media players, and, 2. Squeezebox Server and Squeeze Players Download it for free here: http://www.whitebear.ch/mediaserver

Re: [slim] Announce: Whitebear Media Server v2.2 Released

2012-01-05 Thread AndrewFG
). The former is a mandatory action, whereas the latter is an optional one; and for this reason most renderers don't implement it, so most control points don't try to call it. In principal I could implement it, but I am not sure if I would do so, whether JRMC would call it... -- AndrewFG Regards

Re: [slim] Announce: Whitebear Media Server v2.2 Released

2012-01-05 Thread AndrewFG
17.Now I can repeat it. It is not a JRMC issue. It is in fact due to a quirk in SBS where it effectively multiplies the duration by factor 1000x. I can probably fix it in Whitebear... -- AndrewFG Regards, AndrewFG Try out Whitebear. The middleware that joins the two worlds of: 1. UPnP/DLNA

Re: [slim] Announce: Whitebear Media Server v2.2 Released

2012-01-05 Thread AndrewFG
? Is it a local flac file? Or one of your troublesome remote flacs without a file extension? Or is it a remote radio stream? And in JRMC does the file report a BitRate, a Duration, and a File Size? -- AndrewFG Regards, AndrewFG Try out Whitebear. The middleware that joins the two worlds of: 1. UPnP/DLNA

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