Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-13 Thread gasteropod
bpa wrote: I am not in the UK so the URL change for me. A Quick fix to test for those who wish to try. If these seem to work for UK users - I'll make a plugin which has the necessary conf file and it will be simple for user. The BBC HLS URLs have a specific mime type (different to

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

2015-02-13 Thread poing
wt0 wrote: When I republish, I'm replacing all the album covers in the screenshots with the blank disc image. I am guessing that some music publisher complained when they noticed the album covers in the screenshots. The way I read their first email, their complaint may well have been about

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-13 Thread majones
bpa wrote: If these seem to work for UK users - I'll make a plugin which has the necessary conf file and it will be simple for user. Delighted you're on the case, bpa. I'm running LMS on a QNAP (SSOTS) and not entirely sure how to try out your proposal. But I am in the UK, so if you want me to

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-13 Thread PasTim
bpa wrote: I am not in the UK so the URL change for me. A Quick fix to test for those who wish to try. If these seem to work for UK users - I'll make a plugin which has the necessary conf file and it will be simple for user. The BBC HLS URLs have a specific mime type (different to

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-13 Thread PasTim
utgg wrote: I've also been trying. I've turned on some debug logging for things that look appropriate and get something like the attached. I've a feeling something is not right earlier on during lms startup with the new custom-convert etc settings. There is this line in the log: I

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-13 Thread utgg
bpa wrote: I am not in the UK so the URL change for me. A Quick fix to test for those who wish to try. If these seem to work for UK users - I'll make a plugin which has the necessary conf file and it will be simple for user. The BBC HLS URLs have a specific mime type (different to

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

2015-02-13 Thread wt0
poing wrote: The way I read their first email, their complaint may well have been about the screenshots. To me, their complaint seems surprisingly strict, but valid nonetheless. I recommend you use some CC-licensed art when you relaunch the app. (It surely looks more attractive to potential

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

2015-02-13 Thread wt0
srasher wrote: In general that sounds reasonable. Nevertheless, considering it really violates their policies, roundabout a few hundreds if not thousands of apps have the same issue. I mean, any music player or music server (or even just generic remote control) app has some images or video

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

2015-02-13 Thread srasher
poing wrote: The way I read their first email, their complaint may well have been about the screenshots. To me, their complaint seems surprisingly strict, but valid nonetheless. I recommend you use some CC-licensed art when you relaunch the app. (It surely looks more attractive to potential

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-13 Thread bpa
PasTim wrote: I wonder if the custom-types.conf file needs ' audio' at the end of the line? This may, of course, be the default value, but other types have it. You're right - it was late and I didn't cut paste correctly. The repo beloe has the plugin which install all of these conf

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Soundcloud plugin for squeezeserver

2015-02-13 Thread pippin
If you are interested: we do have SoundCloud as a service in the ickStream plugin as well. Works quite well for now and will get better over time... --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App,

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Soundcloud plugin for squeezeserver

2015-02-13 Thread firecube
Hi, This was raised on the previous page by mkkyah and I have the same... from any list of tracks like the new / hottest tracks or a search which ever track I select it is always the first one that plays. I use Orange Squeeze and contacted the developer of that software to see if he could fix

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

2015-02-13 Thread srasher
wt0 wrote: I would flag the Google Play Music app as inappropriate with the reason This app is not authorized to publish album covers on behalf of the original content or brand owner Also, if you re-buy the app make sure you send me your original order number for a refund. Fair enough,

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-13 Thread majones
mherger wrote: It's ok. We've found each other :-). Michael Michael - in his BBC blog entry last night, Jim Simmons said he'd booked a call with Logitech this morning. Are we likely to her anything from that? majones's

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-13 Thread majones
bpa wrote: You're right - it was late and I didn't cut paste correctly. The repo beloe has the plugin which install all of these conf files and works OK for Linux as long as you have ffmpeg installed (http://www.ffmpeg.org) There are two version one for WIndow and one for Linux -

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-13 Thread PasTim
bpa wrote: You're right - it was late and I didn't cut paste correctly. The repo beloe has the plugin which install all of these conf files and works OK for Linux as long as you have ffmpeg installed (http://www.ffmpeg.org) There are two version one for WIndow and one for Linux -

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-13 Thread Michael Herger
Michael - in his BBC blog entry last night, Jim Simmons said he'd booked a call with Logitech this morning. Are we likely to her anything from that? Thanks for asking :-). I wanted to post, but was waiting for some posting to reply to. Yes, we just had a call. And we're looking into ways to

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-13 Thread utgg
bpa wrote: You're right - it was late and I didn't cut paste correctly. The repo beloe has the plugin which install all of these conf files and works OK for Linux as long as you have ffmpeg installed (http://www.ffmpeg.org) There are two version one for WIndow and one for Linux -

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-13 Thread castalla
The repo beloe has the plugin which install all of these conf files and works OK for Linux as long as you have ffmpeg installed (http://www.ffmpeg.org) Oh dear ... fallen at the first hurdle no ffmpeg on squeezeplug debian (?) Installing looks scary ... Anybody got an idiot's guide?

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-13 Thread Krisbee
PasTim wrote: My ignorance shows few bounds, but I think these are some: ://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/manifesto/audio/simulcast/hls/uk/high/ak/bbc_radio_one.m3u8 ://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/manifesto/audio/simulcast/hls/uk/high/ak/bbc_radio_two.m3u8

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-13 Thread majones
mherger wrote: And we're looking into ways to provide access to the BBC streams using SB/SR. I'm about to investigate which stream options of theirs are feasible for us. HLS is most likely out of question, as our players don't support it. But there's not much I can say yet. TBH: I

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-13 Thread PasTim
castalla wrote: Oh dear ... fallen at the first hurdle no ffmpeg on squeezeplug debian (?) Installing looks scary ... Anybody got an idiot's guide? I'm on ubuntu, and there's a ppa for it at https://launchpad.net/~jon-severinsson/+archive/ubuntu/ffmpeg. There will be something

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-13 Thread PasTim
Krisbee wrote: What ffmpeg command did you use? Playing one of these urls with mplayer gives poor results: Code: mplayer -ao alsa:device=plughw=1.1 http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/manifesto/audio/simulcast/hls/uk/high/ak/bbc_radio_three.m3u8

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-13 Thread eek
mherger wrote: TBH: I didn't follow the issue from the beginning. I've seen that somebody posted about Shoutcast streams, which would suit our needs better. What's the problem with them? -- Michael The shoutcast streams are 128 MP3 streams for the international market. They are

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-13 Thread PasTim
majones wrote: Thanks for the response, Michael. The problem is that the BBC is switching off all SHOUTcast streams (bar temporarily live radio with MP3), so we'll need to find ways of handling HLS or HDS. Thankfully with LMS we have ways of doing this, unlike other internet radio systems -

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-13 Thread PasTim
castalla wrote: I tried: apt-get install -s --install-suggests ffmpeg (looks okay) Hope the real install doesn't break anything! Most unlikely, but there's only one way to find out! LMS 7.9 on VortexBox Midi, Xubuntu 14.04, FLACs 16-24 bit, 44.1-192kbps. LMS Squeeze2upnp (Beta -

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-13 Thread castalla
PasTim wrote: I'm on ubuntu, and there's a ppa for it at https://launchpad.net/~jon-severinsson/+archive/ubuntu/ffmpeg. There will be something similar for your debian - a bit of googling should find it if 'sudo apt-get install ffmpeg' doesn't work. I tried: apt-get install -s

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-13 Thread vinnielo
Klammer wrote: Please could you send the BBC Bristol playlist? Thanks Changes were made as temporary test so I can get the rest of the stations up and running again for you. So if you could let me know if it works or not then we can take the appropriate next steps. *RadioFeeds UK

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-13 Thread gallafent
PasTim wrote: So how do I get to a higher bit rate stream? A different URL? I posted a link to the new Radio 3 AAC 320kb/s stream a while back in this thread, but that one is using the HDS protocol, as used by the flash browser-based player, and I'm not aware anybody's found anything that

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-13 Thread gallafent
Hi bpa, Huge thanks for this proof of concept. Some work to do still of course to integrate with Triode's BBCiPlayer plugin, get station name and “now playing” into the display, etc., but with your HLS plugin we're back up and listening, which is very much the main thing :) So, after installing

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-13 Thread PasTim
I am also still a user of get-iplayer. That's still working on my linux box, even though I thought support had been withdrawn some time ago. LMS 7.9 on VortexBox Midi, Xubuntu 14.04, FLACs 16-24 bit, 44.1-192kbps. LMS Squeeze2upnp (Beta - derived from squeezelite) to Musical Fidelity M1 CLiC

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-13 Thread PasTim
utgg wrote: Thank-you! Normality is resumed with Radio3 - report 322 kb/s in ffprobe and play fine with bpa's plugin. Edit: Also bbc_radio_fourfm.m3u8 works and reports 322 kb/s. So now we are better off than before! Confirmed - excellent. Thanks very much. LMS 7.9 on VortexBox Midi,

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-13 Thread bpa
castalla wrote: Oh dear ... fallen at the first hurdle no ffmpeg on squeezeplug debian (?) For Ubuntu - they include the libav which is a fork of ffmpeg. Perhaps later include something to deal with this issue.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-13 Thread utgg
castalla wrote: Using TOP Fluctuating between 5-30 % Ah, probably lack of hard float on my ffmpeg then. utgg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=40900 View this thread:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-13 Thread majones
mherger wrote: They have also stated that the Shoutcast streams will only be available for 1 or 2 years at which point they will be shut off too. It's funny this is considered an issue. I thought everybody was assuming that mysb.com was shut down... tomorrow or next week :-P. -- Michael

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-13 Thread Owen Smith
majones wrote: Logitech ceases to offer its Squeezebox product but continues to support its infrastructure. Whereas the BBC continues to offer its radio product but ceases to support its infrastructure. We'll need the Deep Thought computer to sort this one out! Logitech have indeed been

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-13 Thread Michael Herger
1. Is your plugin just a 'test', then passing over to mherger to update the BBC iPlayer plugin later on? That would be triode's job, not mine. I'm not involved with the iPlayer plugin at all. -- Michael ___ plugins mailing list

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-13 Thread matt_mcg
It looks as if the HLS feeds are only approx. 130kbps AAC. So the higher rate feed [for R3, for example] hasn't been turned on yet. Have they said anywhere they'll support higher bitrates again? Thanks for the plugin and tips, btw. I'm testing it using VLC, but will make the updates on Pi later.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-13 Thread bpa
Owen Smith wrote: I thought iPlayer was always 48KHz. I can see why the BBC would change to 48KHz, it's becoming the worldwide standard. Nope - IIRC WMA was 48Khz but at least for non UK AAC was 32Khz - couldn't play MP3 in recent years but I think it was 44.1Khz.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-13 Thread PasTim
utgg wrote: There is no problem at the moment. But the BBC are saying Listen Again is also changing over to HLS/HDS/DASH from whatever protocol it uses at the moment. That's what I was referring to. I have to (sheepishly) admit I hadn't even tested it today or yesterday, but the BBC blog

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-13 Thread nabisco
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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] What Was That Tune? plugin

2015-02-13 Thread Michael Herger
The LMS web interface notification for the plugin doesn't use the same name as what is in the plugin list Hmm... is this a LMS issue (it's using the module name in one place, the name string in another one)? Or is it a plugin issue? I'll have to figure this one out :-). Thanks for the heads

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-13 Thread majones
ovonrein wrote: Sorry - can you remind me how you do this? My solution from last week packed up this week. I am now forcing the iPlayer plugin onto AAC by selecting AAC - FlashAAC in Settings. But it won't play because I get a Can't open file: error. I tried various live streaming URLs

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-13 Thread Owen Smith
bpa wrote: A way around this would be to set up application generating PCM to resample the input to 44.1Khz/16 bit. I didn't test the PCm - I just generated the conf fiel as quick as I could - I didn't expect BBC to change form 44.1Hz or 32kHz of the old AAC and MP3 stream to 48Khz. I

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-13 Thread gallafent
utgg wrote: Thank-you! Normality is resumed with Radio3 - report 322 kb/s in ffprobe and play fine with bpa's plugin. Edit: Also bbc_radio_fourfm.m3u8 works and reports 322 kb/s. So now we are better off than before! How funny. I was just about to reply to your post noting exactly this

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-13 Thread PasTim
jamesmccosh wrote: Very many thanks for your help, but I'm not there yet. The title appears: *PlayHLS Plugin repo*, but there is no entry in the list below the headings, so no box to tick. You may need to Restart LMS at this point - I can't recall. LMS 7.9 on VortexBox Midi, Xubuntu

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] iPeng support thread

2015-02-13 Thread pippin
iPeng shows a different artist than the controller? That's indeed weird. iPeng shows whatever the server delivers as track artist except for the NowPlaing screen where it shows _all_ artist roles. Which server version do you use? I know there was a bug in some versions where the server picked a

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-13 Thread bpa
utgg wrote: Are you able to look at CPU usage on the pi while playing? I'm seeing around 50% cpu load for the ffmpeg process on 1.6GHz ARM, which seems very high. I would have thought a pi 1 would be quite marginal... ffmpeg is a general purpose application. It is probable the flac encoding

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] iPeng support thread

2015-02-13 Thread callesoroe
callesoroe wrote: I am on serverversion 7.9.0 iPeng version 8.0.4 See the Clapton song. Says Muddy Waters. +---+ |Filename: ipeng2.jpg | |Download:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-13 Thread Owen Smith
mherger wrote: They have also stated that the Shoutcast streams will only be available for 1 or 2 years at which point they will be shut off too. It's funny this is considered an issue. I thought everybody was assuming that mysb.com was shut down... tomorrow or next week :-P. --

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-13 Thread castalla
utgg wrote: Are you able to look at CPU usage on the pi while playing? I'm seeing around 50% cpu load for the ffmpeg process on 1.6GHz ARM, which seems very high. I would have thought a pi 1 would be quite marginal... Using TOP Fluctuating between 5-30 % Touch - Muse M50 EX TPA3123 T-Amp

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-13 Thread Michael Herger
They have also stated that the Shoutcast streams will only be available for 1 or 2 years at which point they will be shut off too. It's funny this is considered an issue. I thought everybody was assuming that mysb.com was shut down... tomorrow or next week :-P. -- Michael

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-13 Thread bpa
PasTim wrote: I think the other thing I had to do was ensure I had 'proxied streaming' set in the settings/player/audio configuration. Irrelevant for this plugin since ffmpeg handles the stream directly - proxied is only relevant when theplayer can play the stream directly from the station.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-13 Thread avmoron
Thanks to bpa. I have an Odroid u3 running LMS 7.8, added the new bpa HLS plugin and guess what I am now listening to Radio 2 on my squeezebox touch. avmoron's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=62391

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-13 Thread utgg
Listen Again has been working for me without any problems - what is the issue. There is no problem at the moment. But the BBC are saying Listen Again is also changing over to HLS/HDS/DASH from whatever protocol it uses at the moment.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-13 Thread PasTim
bpa wrote: Irrelevant for this plugin since ffmpeg handles the stream directly - proxied is only relevant when theplayer can play the stream directly from the station. Yes, sorry. I suspect I was in the process of adding 'audio' to the custom files and didn't test each change separately.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] What Was That Tune? plugin

2015-02-13 Thread get.amped
Just an observation: The LMS web interface notification for the plugin doesn't use the same name as what is in the plugin list 17359 17360 Obviously not a functional issue but I did wonder (for a second or two) just what plugin it was since I didn't recall installing one called PlayHistory.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-13 Thread PasTim
majones wrote: Logitech ceases to offer its Squeezebox product but continues to support its infrastructure. Whereas the BBC continues to offer its radio product but ceases to support its infrastructure. We'll need the Deep Thought computer to sort this one out!How many channels? If only it

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-13 Thread jamesmccosh
PasTim wrote: I'll try to help. On the web interface, go to 'settings', and select the 'plugins' tab. Go to the bottom. You may need to tick a box saying something like 'allow 3rd party plugins', and press Apply. At the very bottom you should have a section called 'Additional

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-13 Thread PasTim
I just had a reply to my complaint to the BBC, as below. It basically says 'Go away - we are ignoring you'. - Thank you for contacting the BBC iPlayer support team. I understand you are no longer able to listen to BBC Radio streams on your internet radio. We have changed the way we stream

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-13 Thread PasTim
jamesmccosh wrote: I'm full of admiration and gratitude for bpa. However, I am ignorant of how to take advantage of his insights. Perhaps he, or someone else, could point me at the information for the technique of streaming from VLC to LMS, and/or how to use the repositories in LMS Plugins.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] iPeng support thread

2015-02-13 Thread callesoroe
pippin wrote: iPeng shows a different artist than the controller? That's indeed weird. iPeng shows whatever the server delivers as track artist except for the NowPlaing screen where it shows _all_ artist roles. Which server version do you use? I know there was a bug in some versions where

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-13 Thread bpa
W92Neriah wrote: 1. Is your plugin just a 'test', then passing over to mherger to update the BBC iPlayer plugin later on? mherger has nothing to do with BBCiPlayer. Triode is responsible for the wonderful BBCiPlayer plugin and applet. The plugin is just for playing Apple HLS streams. There

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-13 Thread PasTim
I tried to publish one URL on the BBC blog. It was deleted by the moderator. Such clever people at the BBC. So here is one yet again: Code: http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/manifesto/audio/simulcast/hls/uk/high/ak/bbc_radio_one.m3u8

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-13 Thread bpa
PasTim wrote: I have reset the file types to disable pcm for thls now and it works fine. I believe my UPnP solution has limited flexibility in its pcm support. When converting flacs to pcm in LMS I believe I'm getting s24le rather than u16le. However, it doesn't matter, flacs work. A way

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-13 Thread utgg
nabisco wrote: tried this before but links blocked/moderated so here we go again: HD sound (320kbs) HLS streams are available for all BBC stations from two third party partners: a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/manifesto/audio/simulcast/hls/uk/sbr_high/ak/bbc_radio_three.m3u8 and

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-13 Thread JohnB
bpa wrote: I didn't expect BBC to change form 44.1Hz or 32kHz of the old AAC and MP3 stream to 48Khz. The BBC changed their AAC-LC streams to 48Hz a couple of weeks back, as far as I remember. Touch, Meridian G92, Meridian G55, PMC OB1i speakers, HP Proliant Microserver/Ubuntu, PC/Windows

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-13 Thread majones
W92Neriah wrote: So is this still a SHOUTcast stream? Yes, Listen Again is still being provided as SHOUTcast, but will be switched to HLS/HDS. We don't know when, but we do know there won't be MP3 alternatives (other than podcasts). So it's really helpful that bpa's got HLS working now.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-13 Thread gallafent
VirusKiller wrote: Complete list of everything posted (or modified and verified by me) so far: You missed the world service at 64kb/s: Code: http://bbcwsen-lh.akamaihd.net/i/WSEIEUK_1@189911/master.m3u8 :)

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] iPeng support thread

2015-02-13 Thread pippin
callesoroe wrote: I am on serverversion 7.9.0 iPeng version 8.0.4 Is this today's build of 7.9.0? If not, please update, just to be sure that it's not an old bug. Also, please tell me what your settings for artist handling in LMS are under Settings-My Music-Browse Artists. What's happening

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-13 Thread utgg
gallafent wrote: You missed the world service at 64kb/s: Code: http://bbcwsen-lh.akamaihd.net/i/WSEIEUK_1@189911/master.m3u8 :) Also the following, for those that care: Code:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-13 Thread gallafent
So, now we get to choose between Akamai and Limelight. I wonder which will prove better. I think I'll go for Akamai since the URI is two characters shorter and I've visited Massachusetts but not Arizona, although the latter is easier to spell. Seriously, it will be interesting to see if there's

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-13 Thread dave4jazz
Krisbee wrote: From despair to joy in 24hrs thanks to bpa and all those who posted the 320kbs HLS feed details. Using these for BBC 3, 4, 4 extra, 5 live with bpa's plugin: Code:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-13 Thread gallafent
dave4jazz wrote: Krisbee wrote: My HLS address' are of the format ../uk/high/ak/... What is the significance of the sbr_high in your address. /high/ will give you 128kb/s AAC-LC in general. /sbr_high/ will give you 320kb/s AAC-LC :) See, an upgrade! Who knew!

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-13 Thread castalla
Nick_G wrote: Same here please. I successfully followed Tim's instructions and have installed the PlayHLS plugin on LMS hoping I could access it from my SBT via LMS but I can't find it in any of the menus. Do I have to restart the SBT? I'm probably missing something really obvious but I know

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-13 Thread PasTim
Klammer wrote: Thanks for all your hard work so far. I have followed the instructions above and successfully installed the plugin and it shows up as active, however, when I try to play the URL you provided I get Now Playing...Connecting and then nothing plays, the SB returns to idle. Am I

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-13 Thread VirusKiller
All verified 322kbps, except Four Extra which is 382kbps(!) Code: http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/manifesto/audio/simulcast/hls/uk/sbr_high/ak/bbc_radio_one.m3u8

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-13 Thread bpa
ncameron wrote: As an incompetent Squeezebox user I am very grateful for this fix. I would be happy to contribute via PayPal. BUT; is there an idiots guide as to how to implement it please?! First give details of your LMS ? Instruction may vary according to platform and OS.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-13 Thread ncameron
As an incompetent Squeezebox user I am very grateful for this fix. I would be happy to contribute via PayPal. BUT; is there an idiots guide as to how to implement it please?! ncameron's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-13 Thread Nick_G
ncameron wrote: As an incompetent Squeezebox user I am very grateful for this fix. I would be happy to contribute via PayPal. BUT; is there an idiots guide as to how to implement it please?! Same here please. I successfully followed Tim's instructions and have installed the PlayHLS plugin

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-13 Thread dave4jazz
gallafent wrote: dave4jazz wrote: /high/ will give you 128kb/s AAC-LC in general. /sbr_high/ will give you 320kb/s AAC-LC :) See, an upgrade! Who knew! I like it. Thanks :D Dave dave4jazz's

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-13 Thread gasteropod
I have been listening the to the BBC HLS streams for a few days direct on my PC using VLC and they are a little bit intermittent if I'm honest. It seems that the individual chunks sometimes get mixed up so I hear gaps, and sometimes a few seconds of radio from the past out of order. It corrects

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-13 Thread bpa
gallafent wrote: get station name and “now playing” into the display, etc.,! I haven't seen any metadata transmitted in these URL which can identify the stream or what is playing. If is the case then the station name will have to be hard coded in some own to be associated with a specific URL.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-13 Thread W92Neriah
majones wrote: Yes, Listen Again is still being provided as SHOUTcast, but will be switched to HLS/HDS. We don't know when, but we do know there won't be MP3 alternatives (other than podcasts). So it's really helpful that bpa's got HLS working now. Okay, thanks I get it now. So 'Listen

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-13 Thread ian_heys
bpa wrote: I have tested with Windows 7 with 6Music stream and PlayHLS works OK. I installed ffmpeg.exe (static 64 bit) into the LMS Bin directory alongside sox, faad etc. The ffmpeg.exe came from here - http://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/builds/ [/url] I was trying this at the same time as you

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-13 Thread PasTim
dave4jazz wrote: Krisbee wrote: From despair to joy in 24hrs thanks to bpa and all those who posted the 320kbs HLS feed details. Using these for BBC 3, 4, 4 extra, 5 live with bpa's plugin: Code:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-13 Thread bpa
Nick_G wrote: Same here please. I successfully followed Tim's instructions and have installed the PlayHLS plugin on LMS hoping I could access it from my SBT via LMS but I can't find it in any of the menus. Do I have to restart the SBT? I'm probably missing something really obvious but I know

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-13 Thread Chippy
penguin_sam wrote: Hooray all working on OS X. Just popped a precompiled ffmpeg binary in usr/local/bin. Thanks people - particularly bpa! When I try to copy ffmpeg into usr/local/bin on my Mac OS 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard) machine I get The folder “bin” can’t be opened because you don’t have

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-13 Thread ian_heys
bpa wrote: yes ffmpeg.exe was just copied to Bin\MSWin32.. directory. Check that it runs using a Command prompt box. In Filetypes - the Flac and PCM entries should have ffmpeg and can be set to disabled but MP3 entry will be greyed if lame is not installed otherwsie it will be ffmpeg/lame

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-13 Thread Nick_G
bpa wrote: It's not clear what you mean by one of them - ooneplaylist or one HLS URL in the playlist. There may be issues about HLS in playlist as HLS is a playlist of playlists itself and LMS may be getting confused. First - check that a single HLS URL will play on your system. Create

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-13 Thread gallafent
bpa wrote: I haven't seen any metadata transmitted in these URL which can identify the stream or what is playing. If is the case then the station name will have to be hard coded in some own to be associated with a specific URL. This is never a good solution. Yeah, that is indeed a bit

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-13 Thread nabisco
JohnB wrote: The BBC changed their AAC-LC streams to 48Hz a couple of weeks back, as far as I remember. All part of Audio Factory. 320 and 128 are AAC-LC 96 and 48 are HE-AACv1 all stations at 48k (10ish national, 6ish nations, 40ish locals) Some local stations have mono audio for now but

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-13 Thread dave4jazz
Just to report I have the BBC HLS streams working on Radio 2, 3, 4, 5 Live, 5 Live Extra and Radio Solent. Thanks for all the recent inputs and especially for bpa's plugin. A great community. Dave dave4jazz's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-13 Thread bpa
bpa wrote: There are two version one for WIndow and one for Linux - Windows is untested - I'll do that later today. Linux version has a missing string otherwise it is OK. Add to repositories in LMS Plugins tab. I have tested with Windows 7 with 6Music stream and PlayHLS works OK. I

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-13 Thread utgg
PasTim wrote: It seems radio 1 extra is, at least it was when I tried it, at: Code: http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/manifesto/audio/simulcast/hls/uk/sbr_high/ak/bbc_1xtra.m3u8 Sorry, yes - cut and paste error.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-13 Thread castalla
Nick_G wrote: Thanks but where do I do this? There's no tab for adding favourites on the web interface of LMS. Sorry but I really am lost when it comes to these sorts of things. Thanks, Nick there should be a menu item called Favourites in the left pane Touch - Muse M50 EX

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-13 Thread penguin_sam
Hi. My LMS is currently hosted on iOS (I know: serves me right!) any hope of the plugin in the near future or should I move LMS back to a windows or Linux box? penguin_sam's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-13 Thread Chippy
So - I've installed the plugin and the favourites are in place. When I try to play any of the new streams, the stream looks as if it should be playing on LMS for a couple of seconds but then stops. No sound is played. Presumably, this is because ffmpeg isn't installed on my Mac - but I can't

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-13 Thread PasTim
If anyone out there uses some form of network player with internet radio, but has no LMS device to connect to it to play the radio stations, or you use Sonos, there may be a solution using UPnP. I use this on two devices, and several others have been tried and work. With luck you will be able

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-13 Thread bpa
PasTim wrote: I The only proviso I currently have with bpa's brilliantly simple and elegant solution is that pcm doesn't seem to work as yet, so you may need to disable it in the 'settings', 'advanced', 'file types' section, under 'Apple HLS m3u8'. I think I got PCM format wrong - please

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