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

2012-08-12 Thread psketch
Hi 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 on the same

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 psketch
AndrewFG wrote: Unfortunately I don't have an xbox so I cannot test it myself. However perhaps, if you are willing to help me, we can jointly get it to work... Code: 11:19:55.190 TUPnP_MulticastListener 138 bytes v2.4.0.2890

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 vagskal
Andrew, I posted about an issue I have (metadata/song is sent from MC to LMS but nothing is played) in the JRiver Media Center forum with all details, http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=73748.0, and wonder if you could be so kind to have a look when you have the time. Or do you

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] Announce: Whitebear Media Server v2.2 Released

2012-06-10 Thread IMGrant
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. IMGrant's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=29979 View this

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] Announce: Whitebear Media Server v2.2 Released

2012-06-10 Thread IMGrant
AndrewFG wrote: Ummm. Well, no... (I don't get paid for this, so the reward is my advertising...) Shame, but that's fair enough I suppose. (Feel guilty for not having donated now, maybe I'll have to rectify that!)

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

2012-06-04 Thread Shredder
Does anyobne know if it is possible to run WB on a Thecus n5200. And, if so, how? Thanks. Shredder's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11380 View this thread:

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

2012-06-01 Thread Morph666
AndrewFG wrote: 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 stream files as PCM. Otherwise it will only be able to play MP3. Ok, that would be awsome! I have tried to figure out how to do

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

2012-05-16 Thread batka
Hi Andrew! I wonder whether is it possible to use Whitebear with a remote Squeezebox Server? I mean this: My Squeezebox Server runs on a Linux box (OpenSUSE 12.1). Then from the Windows PC, I would control the Squeezebox through UPNP, using Whitebear. It is working if the Whitebear runs on same

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] Announce: Whitebear Media Server v2.2 Released

2012-05-08 Thread bsmith1051
I have LMS 7.7.2 and a Logitech Radio, and have now added a Sony DLNA-compliant box to my home stereo. Using any of the myriad DLNA/UPnP apps on my Android phone, I can see LMS as an available server and both the Sony and the Logitech Radio as available renderers. Isn't this the functionality

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] Announce: Whitebear Media Server v2.2 Released

2012-04-30 Thread NogNeetMachinaal
First of all - thank you for your time and patience - really appreciated! But still - not completely clear = some more questions. :-) AndrewFG wrote: Whitebear does two things: 1) *UPnP Digital Media Server*: Whitebear allows an open standard UPnP/DLNA compliant Control Point to browse

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 NogNeetMachinaal
AndrewFG wrote: 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 please use it; whereas if it doesn't, disable

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 NogNeetMachinaal
Hi *, I sort-off stumbled over this Whitebear Media Server. At this time, I can not see the benefits on using it allong with LMS. Can someone enlighten me? Regards, Will NogNeetMachinaal's Profile:

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

2012-04-29 Thread toby10
Pretty well explained on the home page. http://www.whitebear.ch/mediaserver - UPnP/DLNA support for non SB players - DLNA renderer for SB players - transcoding to DLNA hardware limited codecs - no need to run multiple servers (LMS for SB players, another server program for UPnP/DLNA

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

2012-04-29 Thread Wigster
A slightly less heterodox use of White Bear is to play music located on any DLNA-supporting machine on the network out through your stereo. Whitebear creates a Media Renderer target that is your Squeezebox which you can use through (for example) Windows Media Player's Play To feature. This way,

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

2012-04-29 Thread NogNeetMachinaal
Wigster wrote: A slightly less heterodox use of White Bear is to play music located on any DLNA-supporting machine on the network out through your stereo. Whitebear creates a Media Renderer target that is your Squeezebox which you can use through (for example) Windows Media Player's Play To

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] 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 of these

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

2012-04-24 Thread Wigster
Hi, So I've completely nuked all the prefs, uninstalled SBS and WB and then reinstalled them. However, now 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. The configuration is completely generic

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 Wigster
Hi, 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. I am not sure what is going on, but

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

2012-04-22 Thread Wigster
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 WB, the fact I

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 papaiannis
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 Controller. Any help? Thank

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

2012-04-19 Thread papaiannis
AndrewFG wrote: The Squeezebox Controller is only able to command Logitech devices. I thought that the WhiteBear proxy made a UPnP device look like a Logitech device to LMS. Therefore I hoped that my c200 could be selected as the current client in my squeezebox controller. Please note that I

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

2012-04-19 Thread papaiannis
AndrewFG wrote: The Squeezebox Controller is only able to command Logitech devices. I thought that the WhiteBear proxy made a UPnP device look like a Logitech device to LMS. Therefore I hoped that my c200 could be selected as the current client in my squeezebox controller. Please note that I

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

2012-03-31 Thread AndrewFG
vinhattieu;697733 Wrote: I can play mp3s from WMP12 to my Touch, but cannot get Flacs to work. I've tried madFlac, then Win7Codecs 3.5.8, both with WMP Tag Plus installed, but nothing happens. Can anybody help me with that? Are you using Whitebear? Or LMS internal DLNA server? (The latter

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

2012-03-31 Thread vinhattieu
I've tried both and none was working. -- vinhattieu vinhattieu's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35921 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=90842

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

2012-03-27 Thread vinhattieu
I can play mp3s from WMP12 to my Touch, but cannot get Flacs to work. I've tried madFlac, then Win7Codecs 3.5.8, both with WMP Tag Plus installed, but nothing happens. Can anybody help me with that? -- vinhattieu

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

2012-03-25 Thread AndrewFG
Wigster;689796 Wrote: Sorry for relying so late: Well, it seems to just work on my setup. I have the Shark codecs for Win 7 installed (you need both the 32-bit and the 64-bit versions, since WMP-12 is a 32-bit app) and set to their recommended settings. Hi Wigster, I finally got back to

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 that

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

2012-02-25 Thread AndrewFG
Status Update: I have created a new test version of Whitebear which addresses the issues raised in this post. If have sent a PM to Wigster and )p( with a link where you guys can get it. The new test version also includes code to support Play To with gapless playback. This is currently under

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

2012-02-15 Thread AndrewFG
Wombat66;690641 Wrote: Now, I believe something was mentioned about the possibility of gapless play? That will totally seal the deal!i am delighted that you like Whitebear. And you are correct: I am indeed working with the guys at J River to provide gapless play. expect a new release in ten

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

2012-02-14 Thread Wombat66
Wow! I'm running Whitebear 2.2.2.2196 and I'm very pleased. I tried a version back in October 2010 and it wasn't working nearly as well a this one. I'm so glad I came back and gave it another try. As soon as I'm done writing this I'm going to be clicking on that donation button. BTW, I'm using

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

2012-02-13 Thread AndrewFG
Wigster;690311 Wrote: Unfortunately, with the new version I can no longer play the FLAC files from the local WMP library. Playing AACs works (although they still repeat once they reach the end and the progress bar and time remaining counter are completely off).Hmm. That one works and the

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

2012-02-12 Thread Wigster
Hi Andrew, So I've tried out v2381. Unfortunately, with the new version I can no longer play the FLAC files from the local WMP library. Playing AACs works (although they still repeat once they reach the end and the progress bar and time remaining counter are completely off). The FLAC file

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

2012-02-09 Thread Wigster
AndrewFG;687129 Wrote: Hi Wigster, Although I installed the Shark codecs, WMP12 was still not able to stream flac files to Whitebear or Squeeze players. Could you 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

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

2012-02-09 Thread AndrewFG
Wigster;689796 Wrote: I am also running a plugin called WMP Tag Plus, which allows me to add to the library the files which are not normally supported. Maybe this is a key? Yes that could be the cause (because I don't have that plug-in installed). I will give it a try, and keep you posted.

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

2012-01-30 Thread Mike C
Andrew, thank you for the update. Makes sense now on how hard it was to consistently reproduce the problem :) Mike -- Mike C Mike C's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34507 View this thread:

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

2012-01-29 Thread Mike C
AndrewFG;686535 Wrote: Hi Mike, Thanks for the donation. Concerning no feedback from Whitebear, I need to understand more about your real problem... Many UPnP AV devices receive the incoming control commands, and immediately reflect back a virtual state change in LastChange that

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

2012-01-29 Thread AndrewFG
Wigster;683872 Wrote: Re: playing FLAC files through WB. 1) Now I can again play FLAC files in the local WMP library through WB on the Squeezebox using the Play To feature. I am running LMS 7.7.2, so it was not an issue with the server version. I guess there could be transcoding going on,

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

2012-01-29 Thread AndrewFG
Hi Mike, I am still not seeing this issue. Can you please help me more? Mike C;687112 Wrote: I can also confirm the same behavior using JRMC on the 2 different machines.Let me understand: In test a) you were using the Intel CP + Whitebear + LMS on the same machine; and in test b) you were

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

2012-01-29 Thread Mike C
Hi Too clarify On server PC have LMS, Whitebear, and JRMC On client PC have JRMC In general, JRMC on the client PC reflects the state of Whitebear accurately (not 100%) On the server, JRMC often does not reflect the state of Whitebear. Control of Whitebear from this PC using JRMC works

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

2012-01-29 Thread AndrewFG
Mike C;687174 Wrote: So, my primary problem is that clients are not accurately reflecting the state of LMS/Whitebear. Hi Mr C, Thanks for the log file. There is quite a lot going on in this log: as far as I can determine, you have JRMC and Whitebear running on IP 192.168.1.2, another

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

2012-01-29 Thread Mike C
What kind of problems are you seeing from the MiniUPnPc/1.3 on 192.168.1.3? -- Mike C Mike C's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34507 View this thread:

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

2012-01-29 Thread AndrewFG
Mike C;687211 Wrote: What kind of problems are you seeing from the MiniUPnPc/1.3 on 192.168.1.3? Closing that app fixed the problem... The bug that I found in MiniUPnPc is that it does not comply to the UPnP specifications; in the code below its SOAPAction header is non compliant since it

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

2012-01-26 Thread Mike C
Hi Andrew, thank you for the great extension to SB - just donated. I recently starting having a problem with UPnP. My control points see WhiteBear and can control players BUT there is no feedback from Whitebear. Using the Intel Dev Tools, I can invoke actions and get response but LastChange

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

2012-01-26 Thread Bert003
Small question. 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? -- Bert003 Bert003's Profile:

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

2012-01-26 Thread AndrewFG
Mike C;686512 Wrote: I recently starting having a problem with UPnP. My control points see WhiteBear and can control players BUT there is no feedback from Whitebear. Using the Intel Dev Tools, I can invoke actions and get response but LastChange events do not seem to be generated or are

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
I made another pre- version of Whitebear that addresses the issues raised in this thread. In particular it fixes some bugs introduced in LMS 7.7.x and provides richer meta data on Play To (i.e. Title, Album, Artist and Album Art). And I have sent a PM to )p( and Wigster giving them details where

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

2012-01-22 Thread pski
? -- pski real stereo doesn't just wake the neighbors, it -enrages- them.. It is truly the Golden Age of Wireless pski's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15574 View this thread:

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

2012-01-14 Thread Wigster
Hi Andrew, Re: playing FLAC files through WB. So, I seem to have solved the problem. For some reason I had to reinstall the latest Shark 007 codecs (v3.3.8). I was running v3.3.5 before (maybe I changed some setting?) and that seems to have been the problem. 1) Now I can again play FLAC files

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

2012-01-12 Thread Wigster
I doubt that this was ever possible; even in prior versions. Basically WMP can only stream (Play To) tracks to other media renders (such as Whitebear/LMS) that are in one of WMP's own *native* formats (e.g. pcm, mp3, wma, wav). The Shark add-ins do allow WMP to play tracks locally within

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

2012-01-12 Thread AndrewFG
)p(;683360 Wrote: it only imports the first genreHmmm... until I read your post, I always thought that just as a track can only have one title, it could also only have one genre and one album name; but by contrast it could have multiple artists ... but it seems I was wrong! I just read the

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

2012-01-12 Thread AndrewFG
Wigster;683359 Wrote: All of a sudden it stopped working following the 7.7 upgrade.You are probably getting mixed up here. There are two cases: Case 1) if you have a control point that can serve native flac, then Whitebear sets things up between SBS and the control point so that SBS gets the

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
)p(;682804 Wrote: When you use the library provided by Whitebear with jrmc how are updates handled in jrmc when you add new files to and or adjust tags in the lms database?Well SBS/LMS should detect changes in the library and trigger a rescan for added or changed items. And this does cause

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

2012-01-10 Thread Wigster
H Andrew, So I have upgraded to LMS 7.7.2 (33761), while keeping the latest WB 2.2. I have the UPnP plug in of LMS disabled. Things work as they should for mp3 files. However, it appears that all the files which are in the FLAC format appear in the LMS library appear in the WB DLNA library as

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

2012-01-10 Thread AndrewFG
)p(;682730 Wrote: By the way I noticed in Whitebear under settings the Client http user agent header settings is now greyed out. It was not in earlier versions of whitebear.The user agent settings are only greyed out if no user agent has actually called the Whitebear ContentDirectory, and the

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

2012-01-10 Thread AndrewFG
Wigster;683073 Wrote: ...it appears that all the files which are in the FLAC format appear in the LMS library appear in the WB DLNA library as PCM...Yes that is normal. Whitebear actually offers files to client control points in multiple formats, and the client control point chooses

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

2012-01-09 Thread AndrewFG
)p(;682730 Wrote: If you only use audio .. then using the sb library will work.This is a good point because obviously you can use JRMC to manage and play your videos too. And in such cases I suppose (but did not test it) that you can command the soundtrack of a video in JRMC to Play To a

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

2012-01-09 Thread AndrewFG
)p(;682800 Wrote: But its get messy when you also use the same library for other things then sending audio to whitebear.Understood. A perfect solution would be if JRMC could have multiple libraries open at the same time e.g. the main audio library (by Whitebear) and a local JRMC library for

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

2012-01-08 Thread AndrewFG
I understood it was the only way to get my art covers to be displayed on my SqueezePlayers. Have I understood this right?No, it is not the *only* way: as you yourself said, there are indeed two ways to play to a Squeezeplayer: 1) Library (by Whitebear) = Player (by Whitebear) 2) Library JRMC

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 and

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

2012-01-07 Thread AndrewFG
)p(;682050 Wrote: I noticed that streams were not seekable.Hi )p(, I have been doing a lot more testing and developing by trail and error... And I found a way that Whitebear can persuade SBS/LMS to support the progress bar and also support the seek function. It works on the (buggy) v7.7.1 and

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

2012-01-07 Thread phil71
Hello everyone, My name is Philippe and I've been following this thread for a couple of weeks now. I'm very interested in this thread because JRMC is my music player, organiser, tagger for more than 5 years and because I've just bought a Squeezebox Touch and a Radio. I have a Synology NAS where

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

2012-01-07 Thread phil71
One rectification regarding my setup. In order to be able to control my SqueezePlayer with JRMC, I have to switch the library on my SqueezePlayer. Therefore, the Squeezebox server I'm using is not the one on my Synology but the one on my laptop. The version of the latter is 7.7.1 - r33750 --

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

2012-01-07 Thread phil71
Because I understood it was the only way to get my art covers to be displayed on my SqueezePlayers. Have I understood this right? I think I read this here in this same thread! -- phil71 phil71's Profile:

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

2012-01-06 Thread AndrewFG
Hi )p(, I discovered that your progress bar issue is a symptom of a bigger problem... In general Squeezebox Server needs to know a track's duration before it can show a progress bar; and it needs to know the track's size before it can support seeking. In prior versions of Squeezebox Server

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

2012-01-06 Thread AndrewFG
)p(;682050 Wrote: I noticed that streams were not seekable.If you would revert to SBS v7.6.x you could probably recover the seekability. )p(;682050 Wrote: Also I did see some small hickups in the jrmc progress bar in the first few seconds. But further it looks ok to me now.JRMC updates its

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

2012-01-05 Thread AndrewFG
)p(;681834 Wrote: Ah this is why I now see on string on the touch for track - album - artist on the touch. Maybe you could make them separate again that will look nicer on a device like the touch.I am confused by your request to make them separate again. When one commands SBS to play a

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

2012-01-05 Thread AndrewFG
)p(;681704 Wrote: I must have messed something up with the sbtouch because I cant play anything anymore with any version of whitebear. It gives a connection reset by local host error. I'll look into that tomorrow I have not time now.Ok, keep cool. It is probably a testing gremlin that will

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

2012-01-05 Thread AndrewFG
Hi )p(, I posted a new test build of Whitebear under the same url as I sent you before. This build should resolve the progress bar issue. Please give me feedback. )p(;681672 Wrote: MMM If you do that is the 2 item playlist then handled by squeeze serverie will it do the actual transition

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

2012-01-05 Thread AndrewFG
)p(;681636 Wrote: Although much better then the lms upnp server occasionally jrmc-whitebear-sb does get out of sync for me and does not complete the whole playlist. Have you seen this?Can you be a bit more specific about the circumstances when/how this happens? )p(;681636 Wrote: Maybe

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

2012-01-05 Thread AndrewFG
)p(;681613 Wrote: They are really weird when I start a song the duration is reported correctly in the bar. But withinh a split second its reset to 2:14. This happens with every file that I play. Also it reports 0 khz and 0 channels. So there is most likely definitively something from in jrmc

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

2012-01-05 Thread AndrewFG
)p(;681582 Wrote: I still see the progress bar issue in jrmc with mc 17.0.62. But that is no problem. I normally dont even see it as the server is headless.Ok. Let me just confirm that understand which progress bar you are referring to: Is it the one along the top of JRMC's main window? Or

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

2012-01-05 Thread AndrewFG
)p(;681795 Wrote: Progress bar still working. When I set the windows firewall to off for my home network music now plays on the touch.Ok. That's good news. )p(;681795 Wrote: I opened port 31416 for private ip adresses and now all is well :)This is a good point! In earlier versions, SBS

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

2012-01-05 Thread AndrewFG
pski;681488 Wrote: So what does it do for a LMS user that is not interested in Dxxx and who doesn't use iTunes?Sorry but I don't understand your question. What do you mean by Dxxx? And why do you think an interest in iTunes might be relevant to the discussion? -- AndrewFG Regards,

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

2012-01-05 Thread AndrewFG
)p(;681454 Wrote: Ok I could not wait and gave it a quick spin. Seems to work...yeah!Yes! The Whitebear is coool... -- 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

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

2012-01-05 Thread pski
AndrewFG;681461 Wrote: Yes! The Whitebear is coool... So what does it do for a LMS user that is not interested in Dxxx and who doesn't use iTunes ? Paul -- pski real stereo doesn't just wake the neighbors, it -enrages- them.. It is truly the Golden Age of Wireless

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

2012-01-03 Thread jamesgangnc
erland;667564 Wrote: Just out of interest, what's the main difference between Whitebear Media Server and the built-in UPnP server that's now bundled with LMS ? I can't easily compare it myself as I'm on Linux and I don't think Whitebear currently runs on Linux ? Does Whitebear also

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

2012-01-03 Thread AndrewFG
Hi )p( AndrewFG;680111 Wrote: I will work on this, and will hopefully get back with some solutions in a few days.I made a new test version of Whitebear that should solve the issue of missing album art when doing Play To from a third party control point (like JRMC) to a Squeeze player. I sent

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