Re: [slim] Playing beyond tracks
For me, it will continue playing through the following tracks without a problem. It is only when I happen to check the web UI or an app on my tablet that I notice it has lost its place. Usually I just let it stay behind and keep listening. I have restarted my router a number of times and tried changing the configuration to try to establish a pattern, all to no avail. I will restart everything again and try today. Although this is mildly annoying, I still prefer all the improvements made in 7.9 to any inconvenience in the display. 7.9 converted me to a web UI user, even on my tablet. I wouldn't have mentioned it except that I saw others experiencing it too. Thanks dbm204's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=65916 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106111 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Playing beyond tracks
Agreed. This shows the problem is all over, not player/architecture dependent. Communication/protocol could still be the culprit. That is why I mentioned in my earlier post some strange "cannot connect to server" messages that flash for less than a second, which seem like a false-negative since the music never stops and LMS web-UI has the problem, not the player itself. It is odd that LMS seems schizophrenic. LMS falls behind, not the track playing on the player. LMS knows to send track 3 and does so successfully, the player continues playing track 3, but LMS web-UI displays track 2 as current track. LMS knows enough to send the next track and continues with track 4 too. Sometimes I think it just stays stuck on track 2; usually it just stays 1 track behind. I don't see dropouts or buffering issues. Rarely, it will stop at the end of a track and I need to play a track explicitly to get the UI and player back in sync. I only mentioned player sync before because I know that sync has the most complicated logic and this requires LMS to know what is on all players and exactly where the players are at (since it can force corrections to bring players back in sync). For me, I think a work-around may be to avoid playing an album while one is currently playing. I will try to pause play, clear the playlist, add the next album, then start play. Perhaps that will avoid the problem. I have seen the problem mostly when I alter the playlist while it is playing. When I lined up 4 hours of short (pop music) tracks and let it go, it played without a problem. -------- dbm204's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=65916 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106111 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Playing beyond tracks
but the problem in lms may be ipv3 architecture related -- is that the correct name for the original "slim" devices? sb3, receiver, boom, transporter. lightning888 said it happens on receivers but not on touch. pippin, what device were you using? Just a wild guess: something around sync logic in lms may have been fixed and caused this to happen in ipv3 devices only. -------- dbm204's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=65916 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106111 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Playing beyond tracks
just happened to me again playing a local flac album on a transporter (player playing alone - no player sync). nothing in the server log (nothing in it since 16/9). Logitech Media Server Version: 7.9.0 - 1474277583 @ Mon Sep 19 09:43:45 CUT 2016 Hostname: XXX Server IP Address: 192.168.1.4 Server HTTP Port Number: 9000 Operating system: Windows 10 - EN - cp1252 Platform Architecture: 8664 Perl Version: 5.14.1 - MSWin32-x86-multi-thread Audio::Scan: 0.95 Database Version: DBD::SQLite 1.34_01 (sqlite 3.7.7.1) Total Players Recognized: 2 dbm204's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=65916 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106111 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Playing beyond tracks
(sorry for the long post) >From what I can recall, this started about a year ago. I have been using 7.9 since shortly after it was released. I can't remember whether it also occurred under 7.8 at the time but I don't think so. Since some changes are made in the 7.7,7.8 versions and then merged into 7.9 I can't say where it started or whether it is now limited to 7.9. However, lightning888 said in an earlier post that this occurred with an SB3. For me, it is a transporter. So it may be an ipv3 issue (is that what the original architecture is called?). I never see it when I listen through my computer using squeezelite. Here is what I usually see (I freely admit this scenario may be just a coincidence). Would others who have seen the problem please confirm if they also see this behaviour. This happens with any FLAC file. I don't play much mp3 so I can't be absolutely sure but I don't think it is file or tag related. While playing, the screen flashes "cannot find server ... " and then immediately switches back to the song title. This can happen repeatedly and often. The issue where LMS loses track of which song it is on occurs when the "cannot find server" flashes near the end of a song, presumably when LMS is preparing for the next song. The next song will come on but LMS on the device and on the webpage (as well as tablet apps) all show the previous song. As I said, the "cannot find server" always flashes for only an instant like it loses sight of the server for just a moment. The time in between each "cannot find server" can be many minutes or just seconds but each time it only lasts a fraction of a second until the song title flashes back. I have never said anything about this because I was, and remain, too happy with 7.9 to let this little blip concern me. And I know that this message will lead many (as it did myself) to suspect it is just a network/router problem. My LMS computer and my transporter are both wired. I assign both their IP addresses on the router using IP reservation by mac id. The computer and transporter are both using DHCP. I used to use assigned IP addresses on both devices (not DHCP) but changed that awhile ago to try to track this down to no avail. The way I get out of this problem is to select play on a specific song (next/prev song won't do it -- it remains off by one song) and LMS gets itself and the player back in sync with the file actually playing. Only rarely will music stop at the end of a song at which point I have to explicitely play the next song. I forget if pressing next works. Unfortunately, I can't reproduce the problem manually. I just have to wait for it to happen. If someone can tell me what log settings to use to capture "cannot find server" messages on the devices, I can turn that on and wait for it to happen. I always suspected that if the message is generated on the device by the firmware then we won't see it in the LMS log. But, on the other hand, LMS web UI and tablet apps also get out of sync so there must be something happening on the LMS side. I can't say which side started it. Also, no crossfade, no volume control (fixed at 100%), no replay gain. Plugins active (I turned off all the others sometime ago to try to solve this): Additional Browse Modes BBC iPlayer (v1.4.9) BBC iPlayer extras (v1.9.3) Blanksaver (v2.1.6) Digital inputs Full text search Live Music Archive NPR Radio Random Mix RS232 Logitech Media Server Version: 7.9.0 - 1466761329 @ Fri Jun 24 09:51:11 CUT 2016 Hostname: Server IP Address: 192.168.1.4 Server HTTP Port Number: 9000 Operating system: Windows 10 - EN - cp1252 Platform Architecture: 8664 Perl Version: 5.14.1 - MSWin32-x86-multi-thread Audio::Scan: 0.95 Database Version: DBD::SQLite 1.34_01 (sqlite 3.7.7.1) Total Players Recognized: 1 ---- dbm204's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=65916 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106111 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Beta: SqueezeConfig - UDAP Config tool for Android
I have posted Flattermann's utility on SourceForge - project: LMS UDAP utility https://sourceforge.net/projects/lms-udap-utility/files If you have any objection to this being hosted, please let me know and I will remove it promptly. dbm204's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=65916 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=76584 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Beta: SqueezeConfig - UDAP Config tool for Android
sto wrote: > I'm still looking for a copy too. Would be happy to host the file if > someone has a copy. > > Thanks Hi I would appreciate a copy. My transporter and sb3 are a bit long in the tooth. I keep reading about displays failing so I was hoping for a solution if the worst ever happens. If you received a copy of the software, please let me know and I will PM my email address. I promise to supply the software to other requestors, or upload it somewhere for general access. Thanks Steve ---- dbm204's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=65916 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=76584 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Moderating the forums
just a first post to open my account (been a follower since 2007) dbm204's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=65916 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43454 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
