Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Annouce: Squeeze Control, a squeezebox remote app, is now available for Android

2014-07-08 Thread eduardoo
Hi. I have been using Squeeze Control for a couple of months now. I recently noted a peculiarity that perhaps you should know about. When I have a bunch of songs on my playlist, if I touch to play a particular song in that list, the little cover art of that song will be gone (grey box), but

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Annouce: Squeeze Control, a squeezebox remote app, is now available for Android

2014-07-08 Thread wt0
eduardoo wrote: Hi. I have been using Squeeze Control for a couple of months now. I recently noted a peculiarity that perhaps you should know about. When I have a bunch of songs on my playlist, if I touch to play a particular song in that list, the little cover art of that song will be

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Google Music Plugin

2014-07-08 Thread rod_hull
CommanderROR wrote: Thanks. It's a realy pity that sound quality is not as good as Spotify. Using it on more than one device at the same time is very useful and does not work with the current Spotify plugin... I don't hear any marked difference on any of my setups and I'm quite

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Google Music Plugin

2014-07-08 Thread CommanderROR
Well, they both use 320kbit, but a different codec. Spotify streams ogg, Google does mp3. There codecs have different characteristics, and I guess that's what I hearing. It depends on the type of music you listen to. I think I once read, that one favours bass and the other favours treble, but I

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Google Music Plugin

2014-07-08 Thread rod_hull
CommanderROR wrote: Well, they both use 320kbit, but a different codec. Spotify streams ogg, Google does mp3. There codecs have different characteristics, and I guess that's what I hearing. It depends on the type of music you listen to. I think I once read, that one favours bass and the

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Google Music Plugin

2014-07-08 Thread CommanderROR
Correct of course. However, I tried to hear a difference between FLAC (Wimp) and ogg (Spotify) and was surprised I could not really make out much of a difference. However, Qobuz does souns great (also FLAC) but their library is pretty patchy Of course Wimp and Qobuz should sound the same,

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Google Music Plugin

2014-07-08 Thread pippin
Qobuz uses different masters which apply less dynamic compression. Little sense in streaming lossless versions of today's normal masters since they are created to sound well in compressed formats, usually as low as 128kbps mp3. You don't get more out of what's in there just by streaming lossless,

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Triode: Spotify; helper app not running

2014-07-08 Thread slippyr4
I know this is a vintage thread, but it comes up in the search results. Whilst what triode says is true, I have nevertheless got this plugin working on my FreeNAS box. If you create a jail using ubuntu as a template, you can then install the Debian/Ubuntu version of LMS, which includes the

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] IR Blaster and touch

2014-07-08 Thread Antoniop
Hi Felix It doesn't work with the repeat :( I see two flashes with my camera, but doesn't change anything. I tried all the combinations 1 column, 2 columns... Thanks 1 SB3, 1 radio, 1 touch Plugins : IR Blaster, Smartmix, MusicIP