Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Tidal over ickstream: MP3s play, FLACs don't

2015-03-01 Thread buelligan
I'll try it and see what happens. Much obliged, Henry Aguado buelligan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9019 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103254

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: PlayHLS Plugin - plugin to play Apple HLS m3u8 stream

2015-03-01 Thread Verulamius
I have got a Raspberry Pi 2, which I have got running with the max2play and squeezeplug combo. Do I need to get a different version of ffmpeg than the one which is automatically installed? If so, where is the relevant repository for the correct version? Thanks for your help

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Tidal over ickstream: MP3s play, FLACs don't

2015-03-01 Thread pippin
The right hand side tells you what can be streamed. In this case you only enabled PCM streaming, not FLAC. This means the server needs to decode (transcode) to PCM a and the server can't do that for remote steams, for remote streams LMS a can only transcode to FLAC or to MP3 (if you have lame

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: PlayHLS Plugin - plugin to play Apple HLS m3u8 stream

2015-03-01 Thread utgg
JohnB wrote: bps, Thankyou for the word in my ear. I was already wondering whether my post was a good idea, for the reason you mentioned. [Post now cut back.] It is also my impression that Triode has a good relationship with the people at the BBC. A few years ago I was in contact with

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Spotify Premium Plugin (Beta)

2015-03-01 Thread Mike Anderson
Spotify's desktop app has a very nice feature: You can create a playlist, and Spotify will find new music that you might like, based on your playlist. Basically, you make a radio station based on your playlist. Then you can tell Spotify whether you like or don't like the new tracks it gives

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: PlayHLS Plugin - plugin to play Apple HLS m3u8 stream

2015-03-01 Thread castalla
Verulamius wrote: I have got a Raspberry Pi 2, which I have got running with the max2play and squeezeplug combo. Do I need to get a different version of ffmpeg than the one which is automatically installed? If so, where is the relevant repository for the correct version? Thanks for

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: PlayHLS Plugin - plugin to play Apple HLS m3u8 stream

2015-03-01 Thread TheLastMan
ralphy wrote: Should be patch -b sigpipe.patch That one worked - [directory]: came back - thanks. Matt http://www.last.fm/user/MJL-UK SQUEEZEBOXES:[/B] TWO SB DUETS (LIVING ROOM AND KITCHEN) AND A *'PICOREPLAYER' (HTTPS://SITES.GOOGLE.COM/SITE/PICOREPLAYER/HOME) [b]Server:*

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: PlayHLS Plugin - plugin to play Apple HLS m3u8 stream

2015-03-01 Thread Man in a van
castalla wrote: Yes. Look for the version posted by expectingtofly (somewhere in this thread) http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?53229-Announce-BBCiPlayer-Plugin-%28UK-only%29/page255 :p Man in a van's

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

2015-03-01 Thread PasTim
castalla wrote: I'm sorry, but is this speculation really helpful? No. It's a private matter for Triode. We should just wish him well. LMS 7.9 on VortexBox Midi, Xubuntu 14.04, FLACs 16-24 bit, 44.1-192kbps. LMS Squeeze2upnp to MF M1 CLiC (to MF amp ESLs) Marantz CR603 UPnP renderers.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Dynamic metadata on BBC Radio 1 1Xtra but no other BBC stations

2015-03-01 Thread Nick_G
bpa wrote: The BBC doesn't really want to you to use an SB player or internet Radio - they want you to use a BBC supplied iPlayer browser or an app and then it doesn't matter that metadata is not supplied in a standard way. So what's the point in supplying high-quality AAC streams to those

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] How do I get BBC iPlayer to work - I am confused - help please

2015-03-01 Thread bpa
AngloCuencano wrote: I could not get the Play HLS plugin to install correctly on the latest 7.9 nightly. It works fine on 7.8, although I don't like that version as much as 7.9. There is no code in the Plugin, it just sets up conf files. so it is not sensitive to LMS version. So if you

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] How do I get BBC iPlayer to work - I am confused - help please

2015-03-01 Thread AndyBeevers
I listen to live BBC radio streams using another link so I guess the best ting to do is to wait until the mess has been resolved. Thanks for the info everyone. AndyBeevers's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Annouce: SB Player, a software Squeezebox player app for Android.

2015-03-01 Thread poing
wt0 wrote: Did you try uninstalling and re-installing SB Player? I just re-installed and the problem is indeed resolved. I'm grateful for your quick support. Thanks again! poing's Profile:

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

2015-03-01 Thread ModelCitizen
Sorry for off-the-wall interjection. I have two Radios. One one the BBC iPlayer plugin functions as it should but on the other I get that droney voice muttering about Shoutcast. Can anyone tell me why one should work but not the other? Thanks. A really big shame about Triode. I really do owe him

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Dynamic metadata on BBC Radio 1 1Xtra but no other BBC stations

2015-03-01 Thread bpa
Nick_G wrote: So what's the point in supplying high-quality AAC streams to those devices, which can't take advantage of the superior sound, and leave most hi-fi streamers (which are designed for that very purpose) with poor quality unreliable MP3 streams (Shoutcast Radio 3 AAC reprieve

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: PlayHLS Plugin - plugin to play Apple HLS m3u8 stream

2015-03-01 Thread ralphy
TheLastMan wrote: When I entered the command above patch -b sigpipe.batch the cursor moved to the next line and sat there so I waited for the [directory]: text to reappear for five minutes but it didn't. I left it 10 minutes to make a cup of coffee and when I came back nothing had changed.

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

2015-03-01 Thread PasTim
ModelCitizen wrote: Sorry for off-the-wall interjection. I have two Radios. On one the BBC iPlayer plugin functions as it should but on the other I get that droney voice muttering about Shoutcast. Can anyone tell me why one should work but not the other? Thanks. A really big shame about

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] How do I get BBC iPlayer to work - I am confused - help please

2015-03-01 Thread AngloCuencano
bpa wrote: There is no code in the Plugin, it just sets up conf files. so it is not sensitive to LMS version. So if you have an installation problem - please describe symptom, system OS, LMS version etc so that the problem can be identified and removed/resolved. I'm running Squeezeplug

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Tidal over ickstream: MP3s play, FLACs don't

2015-03-01 Thread Mnyb
FlAC= native at least . In most cases not changing any of the file types setting is the best option . Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Spotify Premium Plugin (Beta)

2015-03-01 Thread Michael Herger
Is there any way to use the plugin app to do this sort of thing? The SmartMix plugin tries to do this sort of things: you can use it to eg. start a mix based on whatever you've currently queued up in your current playlist. No love/ban, though. -- Michael

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Tidal over ickstream: MP3s play, FLACs don't

2015-03-01 Thread pippin
Yea, we are working on that with TIDAL. The Squeezeboxes are a bit more sensitive to network congestion with these lossless streams than with mp3 streams. --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Max2Play Webinterface for Mediaclients (Audioplayer, Squeezeserver, Airplay, XBMC)

2015-03-01 Thread gv200
Thanks for all your support Flysurfer, Would it be possible to add multiple instances of squeezelite through the web browser in the next Max2play update? I think this would be an outstanding addition to Max2play given the horsepower that the Odroid U3 possesses and the versatility it would add

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Tidal over ickstream: MP3s play, FLACs don't

2015-03-01 Thread buelligan
Dear Pippin, That did the trick. I am getting re-buffering issues, but I don't think that is on my end. We'll see. Thanks again for your help. Dear Mnyb, Thanks for your help as well. buelligan's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] How do I get BBC iPlayer to work - I am confused - help please

2015-03-01 Thread Man in a van
AngloCuencano wrote: There was another report on the Raspberry Pi forum of LMS 7.9 not installing PlayHLS. I first put the v7.9 nightly on the pi but it would not accept the HSL plugin (no idea why). I then un-installed LMS and installed v7.5.5; that accepted the plugin.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: PlayHLS Plugin - plugin to play Apple HLS m3u8 stream

2015-03-01 Thread bpa
JohnB wrote: utgg, Just thought I would mention that get_iplayer 2.9.1 seems to be able to deal with on-demand HLS streams by using ffmpeg. One of the main reasons the BBC made all these formats change was because of users downloading programs rather than streaming. I believe Triode

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] How do I get BBC iPlayer to work - I am confused - help please

2015-03-01 Thread bpa
AngloCuencano wrote: After that, the plugin page still showed the checkbox to install the plugin. What do you mean - the check box was ticked or unticked ? Was LMS 7.9 started with --norestart command line option ? How did you restart LMS - via a dialogue box or thro /etc/init.d ?

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] How do I get BBC iPlayer to work - I am confused - help please

2015-03-01 Thread AngloCuencano
What do you mean - the check box was ticked or unticked ? - The checkbox was unticked. Was the PlayHLS shown as Active but enabled box not ticked ? - I don't remember exactly. At the very top of the plugin page there was a line asking to install (I think) PlayHLS and the checkbox was unticked.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] How do I get BBC iPlayer to work - I am confused - help please

2015-03-01 Thread AngloCuencano
There was another report on the Raspberry Pi forum of LMS 7.9 not installing PlayHLS. I first put the v7.9 nightly on the pi but it would not accept the HSL plugin (no idea why). I then un-installed LMS and installed v7.5.5; that accepted the plugin.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: PlayHLS Plugin - plugin to play Apple HLS m3u8 stream

2015-03-01 Thread JohnB
utgg wrote: I've been playing about a bit with my own decoder (at the moment a bit of stand-alone 'C' code to replace ffmpeg as a 'transcoding helper' to extract and demux the aac stream which works for both the Listen Live and the Listen Again streams). The listen again streams have a bit

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: PlayHLS Plugin - plugin to play Apple HLS m3u8 stream

2015-03-01 Thread JohnB
bps, Thankyou for the word in my ear. I was already wondering whether my post was a good idea, for the reason you mentioned. It is also my impression that Triode has a good relationship with the people at the BBC. A few years ago I was in contact with the guys dealing with on-demand because of

[SlimDevices: Plugins] Tidal over ickstream: MP3s play, FLACs don't

2015-03-01 Thread buelligan
Hello all, Just installed ickstream and Tidal service. I am able to play, for example, the genre playlists which I found out are mp3. I am running LMS Version: 7.7.5 - 1416570306 on Win 7 64 bit. Tidal on web interface on my PC works fine. When i try to play specific albums that are FLACs LMS

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Tidal over ickstream: MP3s play, FLACs don't

2015-03-01 Thread pippin
Do you have bitrate limiting enabled for the player or did you disable native FLAC playback? --- 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, at penguinlovesmusic.com *New: iPeng 8, the Universal

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Tidal over ickstream: MP3s play, FLACs don't

2015-03-01 Thread buelligan
I have the bitrate set at no limit. FLAC settings are: 17541 I must confess that the file types settings make absolutely no sense to me. On one side you have the format of the file you are playing. On the other you should be able to select what format you want to stream to the player. So my