Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Beta Announce] UK Radio Player - UK Radio in one place

2022-03-11 Thread Julf
Paul Webster wrote: > See recent email from me regarding getting Belgium working. Getting Belgium working is a challenge. :) "To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art of 'high fidelity' the quackery will bear a solid gilt edge that will fool many

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Alternatives to spotify / spotty?

2022-02-08 Thread Julf
I am pretty happy after switching to Deezer (and thanks for everyone here who helped me get the LMS integration working!). "To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art of 'high fidelity' the quackery will bear a solid gilt edge that will fool many

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Alternatives to spotify / spotty?

2022-01-29 Thread Julf
bpa wrote: > It is included in standard LMS distribution. Have you turned off > mysqueezebox integration ? Probably yes. "To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art of 'high fidelity' the quackery will bear a solid gilt edge that will fool many

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Alternatives to spotify / spotty?

2022-01-29 Thread Julf
bpa wrote: > You need to enable Tidal in mysqueezebox and enter your credentials > Then after a bit of a delay 30-60 mins, assuming Tidal plugin has been > installed (TIDAL v2.0) , menu item will appear under My Apps. Tidal does not show up in my available plugins. Does it have to be

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Alternatives to spotify / spotty?

2022-01-28 Thread Julf
Hmm. Moral dilemma. Tidal still promotes the MQA scam, Quobuz promotes "hi-res" with the utterly misleading (and erroneous) staircase pictures a la Sony. OK, neither is killing people, but "To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art of 'high

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Alternatives to spotify / spotty?

2022-01-28 Thread Julf
bpa wrote: > You need to enable Tidal in mysqueezebox and enter your credentials > Then after a bit of a delay 30-60 mins, assuming Tidal plugin has been > installed (TIDAL v2.0) , menu item will appear under My Apps. Ah! Thanks! "To try to judge the real from the false will always be

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Alternatives to spotify / spotty?

2022-01-28 Thread Julf
garym wrote: > I have a TIDAL plugin showing up in my LMS 8.x under plugins. I'm in > the US. Is TIDAL available in your country? Tidal is available, but I don't have any plugin. "To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art of 'high fidelity' the

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Alternatives to spotify / spotty?

2022-01-28 Thread Julf
garym wrote: > https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?115849-Comparisons-between-current-(2022)-streaming-service-integrations Thanks! "To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art of 'high fidelity' the quackery will bear a solid gilt edge

[SlimDevices: Plugins] Alternatives to spotify / spotty?

2022-01-27 Thread Julf
outside US, with an equally wide choice of music and decent LMS integration? Julf "To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art of 'high fidelity' the quackery will bear a solid gilt edge that will fool many people" - Paul W Kli

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] DSDPlaay: can't play dff files

2019-09-19 Thread Julf
Learnincurve wrote: > this is the same tool that I would use to re-extract from the original > iso's - which I still have and which contain metadata that can be > included in the dsf's if I re-extract, but which is lost in the dff's. Ah! Fair enough. :) "To try to judge the real from the

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] DSDPlaay: can't play dff files

2019-09-19 Thread Julf
Learnincurve wrote: > Feel a bit stupid here, but the reason the .dff's are not playing is > that they are compressed. It's quite a while since I put them there and > I had forgotten the workflow that produced them. Anyway, as I can't find > an easy way to uncompress them on Linux, or to play

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Amazon Streaming Service Announced ..... I'm sure we're interested..........

2019-09-18 Thread Julf
Cut-Throat wrote: > This looks to be a Great Streaming service at a great price. Especially > if you are already a 'Prime User'... > ' > https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/17/amazon-launches-amazon-music-hd-with;)-lossless-audio-streaming/' >

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: New versions of erlands plugins

2016-10-16 Thread Julf
bernt wrote: > > Your Love Is King av Sade från The Ultimate Collection > Baker Street av Gerry Rafferty från Absolute 70's DE > Sign Your Name av Terence Trent D'Arby från Absolute 80's Vol 2 DE > One Day in Your Life av Anastacia från Absolute 00's > You’ve Got It av Simply Red från Greatest

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2016-07-26 Thread Julf
Reachable from the Netherlands "To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art of 'high fidelity' the quackery will bear a solid gilt edge that will fool many people" - Paul W Klipsch, 1953

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] squeezelite on OSX?

2016-06-15 Thread Julf
karlek wrote: > It's the same Password as for administrative Actions in the GUI. > Maybe your wedding day? ;) I am pretty sure my wife is wiser than that after all my lecturing about decent passwords :), so I guess I will have to wait until she gets back. "To try to judge the real from the

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] squeezelite on OSX?

2016-06-15 Thread Julf
ralphy wrote: > Install: > sudo mkdir /opt > sudo tar -C /opt -xvf squeezelite-1.8.4.737-osx-intel.tar.gz > Thanks! Now I just need to figure out what the superuser password is on my wife's mac... :-/ "To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art of

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] squeezelite on OSX?

2016-06-15 Thread Julf
karlek wrote: > Have a look at the first post of ralphys Jivelite on OSX thread: > > There is described how to install Jivelite and wrap it in an Automator > script. > I put that script in my Launchpad, but maybe its possible to start it > automatically. > I even added the Icon from

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] squeezelite on OSX?

2016-06-14 Thread Julf
Man in a van wrote: > No help really, but LMS on the MAC and install Triode's > 'LocalPlayer'...works fine for me. Thanks! I already have LMS running on my Linux server, so don't want to have it on the Mac too. > Ralphy's the man > >

[SlimDevices: Plugins] squeezelite on OSX?

2016-06-14 Thread Julf
Apologies for my bad search skills. I am an extremely happy long-time user of squeezelite and jivelite on linux, but now I would like to do a similar setup on the Mac my wife uses. Squeezelite is probably enough (she can use the LMS web interface for control), but startup of squeezelite needs to

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Constant dropping out the music with Spotify

2016-04-16 Thread Julf
Sinjoor wrote: > Buy a chomecast audio , that is what i did Not sure that is helpful or useful. There is no reason spotify shouldn't work just fine with the logitech players - if you have network issues preventing them from working, chromecast audio won't work any better. Not sent from any

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 22tracks plugin - Play music from 22tracks.com

2016-03-02 Thread Julf
d6jg wrote: > Nice work. Shame 22Tracks is only 128kbps mp3!! Oh well, it is still better than pretty much anything we had before digital... "To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art of 'high fidelity' the quackery will bear a solid gilt edge that

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotify Protocol Handler - play Spotify on all your Squeezeboxen

2016-02-17 Thread Julf
mherger wrote: > Are you using synced players? The player was not synced to anything, but the "Maintain Synchronization" choice was on. Turning it off didn't seem to make a difference. > Sounds like an authentication failure in the SPH plugin. Can you > double-check? That was it! Re-entering

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotify Protocol Handler - play Spotify on all your Squeezeboxen

2016-02-17 Thread Julf
mherger wrote: > And, connected to LMS, you can access Spotify from your players or a > mobile controller app (eg. iPeng, OrangeSqueeze etc.)? Progress, of sorts. After a number of restarts and re-configurations of username/password everywhere, I now have spotify showing up both in the player

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotify Protocol Handler - play Spotify on all your Squeezeboxen

2016-02-17 Thread Julf
mherger wrote: > And you're all set on mysb.com? You could eg. access > http://www.mysqueezebox.com/player/playerControl and browse Spotify? > Yes. "To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art of 'high fidelity' the quackery will bear a solid gilt

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotify Protocol Handler - play Spotify on all your Squeezeboxen

2016-02-17 Thread Julf
mherger wrote: > > How did you get the Spotify app visible? I cant get to appear to the > LMS > > web-page. > > Hmm... it should just be there. You might try to shut down LMS, delete > the cache.db from its cache folder, then re-try. Would that work? > I have the same problem, with spotify

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotify Protocol Handler - play Spotify on all your Squeezeboxen

2016-02-16 Thread Julf
mherger wrote: > > Unfortunately the spotify app on the player doesn't work either - it > > just hangs there waiting. :( > > Hanging? Could you please provide your server.log file? > Unfortunately not much to see: Code: 2016-02-16 10:55:41 squeezeboxserver_safe

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotify Protocol Handler - play Spotify on all your Squeezeboxen

2016-02-16 Thread Julf
mherger wrote: > > Unfortunately the spotify app on the player doesn't work either - it > > just hangs there waiting. :( > > Hanging? Could you please provide your server.log file? > > Will do as soon as I get back home, but when I clicked on spotify in the player, there were no new log

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotify Protocol Handler - play Spotify on all your Squeezeboxen

2016-02-16 Thread Julf
mherger wrote: > I assume you're running LMS and your players are connected to LMS? Make > > sure you've enabled mysb.com credentials in LMS, as well as the official > > Spotify plugin and this Spotify Protocol Handler plugin. You should then > > see Spotify in the SB's menu (NOT on

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotify Protocol Handler - play Spotify on all your Squeezeboxen

2016-02-16 Thread Julf
bernt wrote: > As someone pointed out ssh is not that secure. Indeed not that secure, but still much better than a bunch of the proprietary "security by obscurity" products out there. If you really worry about it, here is a good resource: 'Secure Secure Shell'

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotify Protocol Handler - play Spotify on all your Squeezeboxen

2016-02-15 Thread Julf
verypsb wrote: > The original 3rd party spotify plugin by Triode didn't support software > players, only original squeezebox hardware. I suspect it's the same for > spotify protocol handler. I don't think that is true. Until the search error showed up recently, i was happily listening to

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotify Protocol Handler - play Spotify on all your Squeezeboxen

2016-02-15 Thread Julf
mherger wrote: > Check your LMS settings. You must enable the Spotify plugin (there's no > > spotify process for it). "Spotify (v1.0)" (official plugin) is selected and enabled. "To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art of 'high fidelity' the

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotify Protocol Handler - play Spotify on all your Squeezeboxen

2016-02-15 Thread Julf
mherger wrote: > Did you add it on mysb.com? Is the official plugin running? > Spotify added to mysqueezebox.com, but "ps" on my server only shows SpotifyProtocolHandler running, no plain spotify process. "To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotify Protocol Handler - play Spotify on all your Squeezeboxen

2016-02-15 Thread Julf
mherger wrote: > Ignore the self test. It's broken for the same reason as search is > broken. I'm going to remove it. Ah! Thanks! > Did you test the actual playback? Not using the test button, but playing > > some music? OK, feeling extremely foolish, but can't find spotify anywhere any

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotify Protocol Handler - play Spotify on all your Squeezeboxen

2016-02-15 Thread Julf
On Ubuntu 15.10, Triode plugin unistalled. LMS updated to latest nightly, Spotify Protocol Handler installed and configured - but self test gives: Helper App Running - PASS Logged In - PASS Failed To Receive Metadata - FAIL Streaming from Spotify Failed - FAIL Unable to start streaming from

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotify Protocol Handler - play Spotify on all your Squeezeboxen

2016-02-14 Thread Julf
I have pretty much the same situation - installed the handler OK, but still getting the dreaded "Spotify Error : General Transient Error" when trying to search. This is what I see in the log: Code: [14:43:28.142374] main:619 req: search.json res: (null) par:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBCiPlayer Plugins - an alternative quick fix guide

2016-02-14 Thread Julf
Owen Smith wrote: > Why would people ask SqueezeBox questions over there? The horses mouth > is this site surely? Because there you can post all kinds of speculations and opinions without too many people who actually know what they are talking about correcting you? :) "To try to judge the

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBCiPlayer with DASH support - test version

2015-12-30 Thread Julf
Owen Smith wrote: > Whereas I don't recognise Julf's name and checked how many posts he'd > ever made, half expecting it to be in single digits or even 1. You clearly haven't been following the audiophile subsection - and I don't blame you. "To try to judge the real from the false will

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBCiPlayer with DASH support - test version

2015-12-30 Thread Julf
Owen Smith wrote: > That wasn't remotely clear. In the absence of a smiley (or other > emoticon), text is read literally online. True. I should have used an emoticon, but I was sure people here have been around long enough to a) know where I stand on these issues, and b) recognize a typical

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBCiPlayer with DASH support - test version

2015-12-30 Thread Julf
bpa wrote: > If you are seeing an improvement with these streams it is a placebo > effect. "Placebo effect" is just a derogatory term used by people who don't have an open mind, and are limited to resorting to silly things called "facts" as opposed to first hand experience. "To try to judge

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Stream music from Android phone over WiFi

2015-12-21 Thread Julf
rbl wrote: > Hi - is there a way to stream music from my Android phone via the > Squeezebox over the WiFi network? E.g. play tunes on my phone's SD card, > or listen to the Spotify / Youtube apps? I guess it would be possible to get LMS to run on Android, but it is probably not trivial. "To

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] iPeng support thread

2015-11-30 Thread Julf
callesoroe wrote: > Just got tickets for Copenhagen concert in July :) My wife asked me about the Amsterdam concert, but the date didn't work out. "To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art of 'high fidelity' the quackery will bear a solid gilt

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBCiPlayer with DASH support - test version

2015-11-30 Thread Julf
PasTim wrote: > So any player that will play streams compressed to 48kbit/sec will also > play 320kbit/sec. Ah well, I'm a bit ignorant with regard to such > issues. I think you are confusing data rate and sample rate. Lossy perceptual codecs talk about data rate, lossless (both uncompressed

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] iPeng support thread

2015-11-29 Thread Julf
callesoroe wrote: > 70 tracks (all my Coldplay tracks). 'Everything Sounds Like Coldplay Now' (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6P-2GY-SgA) "To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art of 'high fidelity' the quackery will bear a solid gilt edge that

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Rasp Pi - Squeezeslave command line help to play and pause

2015-09-25 Thread Julf
Foggy wrote: > The sound quality when using the Pi is audibly inferior to a standard > Squeezebox, even through cheap PC speakers and that is when only running > the Squeezeslave software (I think also I tried Squeezelite some time > ago). I did a little searching at the time and I believe it is

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] iPeng support thread

2015-09-18 Thread Julf
Owen Smith wrote: > Provided what is on the HDMI can be represented on optical. Stereo, DD > 5.1 and DTS 5.1 should all work. But if the HDMI has 5.1 channel LPCM > then there's no way to represent that on optical unless the box has a > DTS or Dolby Digital encoder in it. I have no idea whether

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] iPeng support thread

2015-09-17 Thread Julf
trans_lux wrote: > Note: I have not critically listened to either device. More of a problem > solvers. HDMI->optical should be a lossless conversion as long as nothing goes badly wrong (so badly that you get no sound at all, or badly broken up sound). "To try to judge the real from the false

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Squeezeplay and Windows 10 pro 64 bit - No worky

2015-08-15 Thread Julf
vrette wrote: OK, this is strange. I installed an earlier version of Squeezeplay (417) and it installed and worked fine. I then de-installed 417 and installed 539 and it is working just fine. Not sure if an update to Windows 10 fixed the problem, or something else. When you first tried, and

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

2015-07-30 Thread Julf
Touister wrote: I have a Raspberry PI 2 and would like to connect directly the I2S signal to my dac (DDDAC 1794). Are you also doing I2C for control, or pure I2S with digital volume control on the RPi side? To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Looking for plugin which parses stream for sample rate/bits per sample

2014-12-13 Thread Julf
bpa wrote: Having a working Flac solution will give you time to see if a PCM one is possible. And is there any reason (beyond avoiding burning CVPU cycles) not to use flac? To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art of 'high fidelity' the quackery

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Qobuz.com streaming plugin

2014-11-21 Thread Julf
axelwin wrote: still waiting for 24bits streaming Uh, why? 16 bits makes sense when recording/processing, but not when listening. What is the dynamic range of your listening space? Have you ever came across any source material with more than 90 dB dynamic range? To try to judge the real

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Qobuz.com streaming plugin

2014-11-21 Thread Julf
axelwin wrote: I will let specialists answer for the DR improvment between the 2 file formats I think specialists have already stated their views. 16 bits give you a dynamic range of 90-96 dB, depending on dithering - more than any source material or listening space. I just now that Qobuz

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Great New Music Streamer Coming from Norway to the U.S. = Tidal

2014-10-27 Thread Julf
dafiend wrote: As for the rest of your post: I don't buy it at all. I really would like to see one of the more knowledgeable posters chime in (Julf, probedb etc.) In this case I have to confirm that it is pretty well documented that some hearing defects do prevent the masking that perceptual

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Great New Music Streamer Coming from Norway to the U.S. = Tidal

2014-10-27 Thread Julf
Cut-Throat wrote: If you want to see the 'Flames Fly'; Just post this on an Audio Forum, such as Audio Asylum on the PC Audio Forum. -- There are Legions of People that would disagree vehemently with this Statement. And there are, of course, Legions of People who are wrong. I would

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

2014-10-09 Thread Julf
Owen Smith wrote: This is why Carrier Grade NAT is evil and should have been taken out and shot at birth. Hear hear! To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art of 'high fidelity' the quackery will bear a solid gilt edge that will fool many people

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music Artist Information plugin

2014-09-22 Thread Julf
gharris999 wrote: Julf, I don't think you understand how embedded cue sheets work with flacs. Indeed, I don't. That is why I am trying to find out what the possible benefits could be. To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art of 'high fidelity

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music Artist Information plugin

2014-09-21 Thread Julf
gharris999 wrote: I like to rip my music so that a I end up with a lossless, bit-perfect representation of the whole original CD in a single file. That file includes not only the the audio data, but the metadata and the album art, etc. And in my case, it means that for a library of 68,960

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music Artist Information plugin

2014-09-20 Thread Julf
gharris999 wrote: ..and say I've got a whole-cd-flac-with-embedded cuesheet file How well does LMS support cuesheet files? And just out of curiosity, is there any reason to use cuesheet files these days? To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Qobuz.com streaming plugin

2014-08-25 Thread Julf
local.bin wrote: Anyone else having the issue, in that its a qobuz problem? else I will take a look at getting the log. I have seen reports of people having issues with qobuz today. To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art of 'high fidelity'

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Recommendation for software for bulk replaygain tagging...

2014-01-23 Thread Julf
Zombie wrote: Any good, free or cheap programs out there? What platform? Windows, Mac, Linux, other? Which is best: to lift the lower gain FLACs up to the highest level, lower the higher gain FLACs down to the lowest level or to normalise to a certain level? It doesn't really matter, as

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Android controllers available without using android store?

2013-12-16 Thread Julf
Pungh0Li0 wrote: I've sent you a PM with the link. Many thanks! To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art of 'high fidelity' the quackery will bear a solid gilt edge that will fool many people - Paul W Klipsch, 1953

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Android controllers available without using android store?

2013-12-15 Thread Julf
Pungh0Li0 wrote: I figured it out. Let me know if you want a copy. Would love to, yes, please! To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art of 'high fidelity' the quackery will bear a solid gilt edge that will fool many people - Paul W Klipsch, 1953

[SlimDevices: Plugins] Android controllers available without using android store?

2013-12-14 Thread Julf
I just got a 'jolla' (http://jolla.com) phone. It has an android binary compatibility layer, so I should be able to run Android binaries on it. Are there any squeezebox control/player applications available that can be downloaded directly (instead of purchased from an android store)? To try to

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Android controllers available without using android store?

2013-12-14 Thread Julf
Pungh0Li0 wrote: Why not use the official app? Because it requires registering with the android store, and actually checks that you are on an android device. To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art of 'high fidelity' the quackery will bear a

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music Artist Information plugin

2013-09-05 Thread Julf
mherger wrote: I pushed 0.2.1 which comes with those modules. Hopefully all of them... please give it another try and report back - thanks! Loads OK for me now! Many thanks! To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art of 'high fidelity' the

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music Artist Information plugin

2013-09-04 Thread Julf
mherger wrote: Could you please run perl -MHTML::Tagset -e 'print $HTML::Tagset::VERSION' in the shell. If this doesn't give you anything (or an error), then please install HTML::Tagset using apt-get or whatever. I'll probably have to add it to the plugin if this is causing

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music Artist Information plugin

2013-09-02 Thread Julf
mherger wrote: Are you running LMS from the .deb file or did you install it some other way? Pretty sure I did an apt-get install with deb http://debian.slimdevices.com stable main in my sources.list. To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art of

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music Artist Information plugin

2013-08-31 Thread Julf
MusicArtistInfo fails on my Ubuntu 12 install (Logitech Media Server 7.7.2) because it can't locate HTML/Tagset.pm. To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art of 'high fidelity' the quackery will bear a solid gilt edge that will fool many people -

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

2013-04-20 Thread Julf
Triode wrote: Do you see any errors in the server log? A bunch of Plugins::Spotify::ProtocolHandler::handleDirectError (352) stream failed - bad player: -1, and some unrelated warnings from the xPL plugin: Slim::Plugin::xPL::Plugin::xplExecuteCallback (584) Warning: Called without a client:

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

2013-04-20 Thread Julf
Triode wrote: There's something special about your setup - the helper app which should run on the same machine as LMS is making a TCP connection to the cli port and getting it reset, but there is no error in the server log. Have you got two versions of the server running or some firewall

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

2013-04-20 Thread Julf
Triode wrote: So if you enable cli debugging on the server do you see the helper app connecting to it? I still think it is connecting to something else. Which debug setting is the cli one? Julf's Profile:

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

2013-04-20 Thread Julf
Triode wrote: plugin.cli OK... So what does this tell you? Code: [18:55:48.868297] main:586 req: stream.flc res: spotify:track:49FiU7fWnjZ0R5AyT6L0kF par: player=40%3A61%3A86%3Ae2%3Aee%3Aa2start=0sync=1id=12 prot: SPOTSTREAM/1.0 auth: (null) [18:55:48.868351]

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

2013-04-20 Thread Julf
Triode wrote: That's the helper app log - you need to look at the server log. This is saying it is getting rejected by the server when it makes a cli connection - you need to know why... Ah, found it... No place like home... Code: 13-04-20 19:10:23.9280]

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

2013-04-19 Thread Julf
Triode wrote: You need to enable cli connections to your server. I don't see any setting to enable them. The CLI does seem to be enabled and does seem to work OK (I can telnet to 9090 and give CLI commands). Julf's

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

2013-04-19 Thread Julf
Triode wrote: Look in the helper app log - any error messages? Code: [11:33:47.087970] check_player:236 cli connection error: Connection reset by peer 104 [11:33:47.088002] main:834 unable to play on this player: -1

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

2013-04-18 Thread Julf
Hi! For some reason the spotify plugin has stopped working when I use squeezelite as the player. All other tests pass OK, but when trying to authenticate the player I get Helper app unable to authenticate player (error: -1). Any ideas of what is going on?

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

2013-03-25 Thread Julf
TheLastMan wrote: Spotify appear to use severe dynamic compression. It is just so that the music, being streamed on the Internet, carries over the noise of all the cat pictures being posted :) I suggest using one of the dynamic range measurement tools (depending on your OS environment) to

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Spotify [Triode] problem: Frequent bufferunderruns

2013-02-05 Thread Julf
dasjoen wrote: As previously mentioned, it fails when the Squeezebox is on WLAN and the server on wired LAN. I suspect my WLAN router must be the culprit here somehow... And I assume you have checked that there is no firewall or NAT active on the WLAN router?

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Softsqueeze 3.9 beta for testing

2013-01-04 Thread Julf
bpa wrote: It should run as long as your run LMS. The problem areas would be special services where LMS and mysqueezebox.com interact such as Spotify, Pandora, etc. And at least fro Spotify there is a 3rd party plugin for LMS that frees you from depending on mysqueezebox.com.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Anyone running SlimRio Still?

2012-08-23 Thread Julf
sle118 wrote: Just chiming in to say that I still have 3 rio along side my duets. So let me chime in to say I still run 4 rio receivers too (along with a Touch and a squeezebox2). I use them in non-critical locations such as garage, workshop and terrace.

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

2011-02-06 Thread Julf
:56:41.441685] main:1100 bad request for socket or no track Running squeezebox 7.5.3 - r31792, with plugin version 1.2.1, on kubuntu 10.10. -- Julf Julf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=42050 View

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

2011-02-06 Thread Julf
Triode;608777 Wrote: Its definately worth upgrading to 7.5.3 and ensuring you have the latest version of the plugin as this will enable the plugin to try another server if you get repeated rebuffering. Thanks! I am already running 7.5.3, what is the latest version of the plugin? -- Julf

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

2011-02-06 Thread Julf
a rather short timeout... -- Julf Julf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=42050 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79706

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

2011-02-06 Thread Julf
Triode;608782 Wrote: Can you confirm it works ok with hardware players (which is the main target for the plugin) Unfortunately it is behaving OK right now, even with softsqueeze. Could be related to load on spotify servers. Will test when it starts misbehaving again. -- Julf

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

2011-02-06 Thread Julf
Triode;608782 Wrote: Can you confirm it works ok with hardware players (which is the main target for the plugin) OK, after 2 hours no stopping on the touch, after 15 min a stop on softsqueeze... -- Julf Julf's Profile

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

2011-02-06 Thread Julf
for the hardware players. Right - and there is far too much java to wade through to figure out why softsqueeze does that. C or python I could handle... :) -- Julf Julf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=42050

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

2011-01-28 Thread Julf
I assume you have enabled Show all 3rd party plugins? -- Julf Julf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=42050 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79706

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

2011-01-28 Thread Julf
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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Spotify Premium Plugin (Beta)

2010-12-22 Thread Julf
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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Spotify Premium Plugin (Beta)

2010-12-21 Thread Julf
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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Spotify Premium Plugin (Beta)

2010-12-21 Thread Julf
That makes sense, but unfortunately not even restarting (either just the server processes, or the whole system) helps. -- Julf Julf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=42050 View this thread: http

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

2010-12-21 Thread Julf
(383) request not dispatchable! [10-12-21 18:19:59.1520] Slim::Web::JSONRPC::requestMethod (383) request not dispatchable! etc. etc. Oh, and /usr/sbin/squeezeboxserver definitely exists: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 28704 2010-12-13 22:06 /usr/sbin/squeezeboxserver -- Julf

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

2010-12-21 Thread Julf
/squeezeboxserver/cache --charset=utf8 1200 ?Sl 0:00 /usr/sbin/mysqld --defaults-file=/var/lib/squeezeboxserver/cache/my.cnf -- Julf Julf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=42050 View this thread

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

2010-12-21 Thread Julf
image links and doesn't allow me to post it. Plugin helper app log empty. -- Julf Julf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=42050 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79706

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

2010-12-21 Thread Julf
shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.15, not stripped # ls -l spotifyd -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 112035 2010-12-21 21:09 spotifyd -- Julf Julf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=42050 View this thread: http

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

2010-12-21 Thread Julf
#32-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 16 09:17:34 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux So the spotifyd binary is 32-bit, my server is 64-bit... Is there a 64-bit version of spotifyd? But not sure that explains why it causes the duplicate processes... -- Julf

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

2010-12-14 Thread Julf
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