Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Power Off All Players?

2018-05-10 Thread drmatt
Apesbrain wrote: > Here's one I found and once used. Copy to a batch file named as you > please. You have to find a way to call that file from within LMS. I > think this capability exists within "Server Power Control" plugin which > I was also using at that time. IIRC, it showed up in both

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Power Off All Players?

2018-05-10 Thread drmatt
I wrote a shell script for this that I activated from an internal web page via CGI. I leave them running these days though to confuse the dog.. :) -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Help with chrome cast audio plugin

2018-04-08 Thread drmatt
Iirc it restarts every time you make a change to the config (because that's how it works). In general you just turn it on and ignore it. The Chromecast appears as a player in the LMS interface (or ipeng) and you can send audio to it as normal. -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- --

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: Group Players

2018-03-20 Thread drmatt
Turn power save off on the others... -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No less than 3x 24/44k albums..

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Squeezelite-X

2018-03-20 Thread drmatt
I'm proud to be a legacy user -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No less than 3x 24/44k albums..

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: Alexa voice control (development thread)

2018-03-12 Thread drmatt
The open end just passes packets to the other end - so essentially to secure the open end you secure this end. Using a client cert is a good way to do that but it's only one technique. -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: Alexa voice control (development thread)

2018-03-11 Thread drmatt
stunnel doesn't mandate what passes over the tunnel once it's been established, it is not a firewall it is just a tunnel. You have to ask yourself how to secure access to the open end of the stunnel link. -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Squeezelite-X

2018-03-10 Thread drmatt
You can set startup delay parameters per-player in LMS. Unsurprisingly it's only well calibrated out of the box for native hardware players and for everything else it's implementation dependent. In the sense that Greg's squeezelite launcher can't get it right for you. -Transcoded from Matt's

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Raspberry Pi like board with custom os for audio?

2018-01-31 Thread drmatt
d6jg wrote: > Why does the website refer to Raspberry then? > > > Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk"form factor". I.e. the board dimensions > and mounting points of a Pi A are used. -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Squeezelite-X

2018-01-13 Thread drmatt
Great, thanks. Appreciate the flexibility. -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No less than 3x 24/44k albums..

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: Group Players

2018-01-13 Thread drmatt
Nice! -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No less than 3x 24/44k albums..

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Squeezelite-X

2018-01-13 Thread drmatt
I'd prefer to stick with a standalone installer myself. -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No less than 3x 24/44k albums..

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Qobuz Hi Res streaming how to downsample

2017-12-07 Thread drmatt
It normally does this automatically -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No less than 3x 24/44k albums..

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Roon - what the h*** is it doing?

2017-11-23 Thread drmatt
I would imagine it's building indexes or downloading bios and/or photography and will stop when it's finished. -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Essentia Integration - music classification (moods, genres, ...)

2017-11-18 Thread drmatt
I like this very much.! -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No less than 3x 24/44k albums..

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] EXCITING: New Orange Squeeze 7/19/17!

2017-07-20 Thread drmatt
Is the IP signed up to receive Betas? Play store serves the "latest" app for your specific user account. -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No less

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

2017-06-07 Thread drmatt
To be fair, a little effort was always required to keep the Squeezebox infrastructure alive, it was always criticised for being a bit too techy. As it transitions way past "supported" and into the ether you can expect this to get much, much worse, not better. In my view the system is still

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

2017-06-07 Thread drmatt
Yes, it's a low power desktop part from about ten years ago. But it's full x64 class architecture, it's not a processor geared toward the embedded market like Atoms or ARM. This has two real x86_64 cores. -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS

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

2017-06-07 Thread drmatt
AMD 4850e. Dual core, two threads total. http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/K8/AMD-Athlon%20X2%204850e%20-%20ADH4850IAA5DO%20(ADH4850DOBOX).html Sent from my ONEPLUS A3003 using Tapatalk -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBCiPlayer V1.5.2 beta test

2017-02-17 Thread drmatt
bpa wrote: > Becuase there are already these user options to skip back and froward in > the live stream - I cannot see a reason why mrmichaelwright suggestion > is useful especially as it will require a lot of work to implement and > maintain. Funnily enough I'd like exactly this feature too,

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

2017-01-14 Thread drmatt
Ok maybe I wasn't getting updates for them and I just grabbed them one time.. :) Betas added and yep, all looking good right now. -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No less than 3x 24/44k

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

2017-01-14 Thread drmatt
Hmm I recall Michael added the iPlayer repos to the default lists. Certainly I didn't have any additional repos defined and was still receiving updates on the 1.4.9 stream. Maybe that got removed? -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music:

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

2017-01-14 Thread drmatt
PasTim wrote: > Things have been moving on. I suggest you try > http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?104672-BBCiPlayer-with-DASH-support-test-version > . It is still 'test' but almost everyone seems to be finding it stable > and reliable. I think the 1.4.9 stream is still in the default

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

2016-11-09 Thread drmatt
Lol, indeed not!! drmatt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=59498 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104672 ___ plugins

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

2016-11-09 Thread drmatt
BBC, along with all the other news content outlets, are being nailed by the major facepalm that took place overnight in the US. It will take a day or two to settle down. Even Facebook's monolithic and hugely impressive infrastructure is struggling to keep comment threads in sync.

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

2016-11-07 Thread drmatt
Very aware of that. I used to work on supercomputers. That's one of the reasons I have a low opinion of windows threading.. drmatt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=59498 View this thread:

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

2016-11-06 Thread drmatt
bpa wrote: > Yes some do -my laptop win7 system has a i5-3210m (see > http://ark.intel.com/products/67355/Intel-Core-i5-3210M-Processor-3M-Cache-up-to-3_10-GHz-rPGA > ) and shows up as 4 CPUs when monitoring loads. Good point. I think at some point my statement was correct, but not any longer

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

2016-11-06 Thread drmatt
But really, streaming audio is trivially easy. The difference between a gen 1 i5 aka nehalem and a g4 i5 aka haswell in this context is essentially zero. A pi B+ will do this job. Sent from my Nexus 9 using Tapatalk

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

2016-11-05 Thread drmatt
Have to say, my squeezeboxes, all of them, whether on wires or end of a damp string WiFi through two external walls, will stream BBC radio flawlessly all day and start, stop, and pause and continue without issues all day. It can work... Nothing special about my setup: plusnet fibre, Debian Linux

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

2016-11-02 Thread drmatt
No it's not using windows networking. The VM runs its own drivers and writes raw packets to your network device on a new, different, spoofed MAC address. Usually. drmatt's Profile:

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

2016-10-27 Thread drmatt
Ok, I didn't get your intent. More reliable clocks is a good thing. No point in offering a clock that's wrong, even if the data stream referenced is "delayed". "Live" Digital TV streams are delayed too, by differing amounts. I am not sure it's something worth worrying about.

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

2016-10-27 Thread drmatt
You would hope that akamai are also properly synced to a reliable time source... There is really no excuse for it being wrong, it really isn't difficult to do. drmatt's Profile:

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

2016-10-27 Thread drmatt
NTP protocol is designed to deal with the transmission delays and should be capable of getting your OS clock to within a few hundred microseconds of the source, no matter how far away you are from the source, geographically.

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

2016-10-21 Thread drmatt
Sounds like it might be time to run an LMS in a debian VM or something.. :) drmatt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=59498 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104672

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

2016-09-26 Thread drmatt
I find that enabling powersave solved that problem.. :) drmatt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=59498 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104672

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

2016-09-25 Thread drmatt
Obvious test is to plug a laptop into the wire you laid and test with that to prove there's no issue with the length/construction of that cable for a start. drmatt's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: Simple Library Views plugin

2016-09-19 Thread drmatt
For my purposes I would be ok with a library that is literally "untagged folders". Interesting stuff, thanks for working through this. drmatt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=59498 View this

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] DSDPlay v1.0 output options through touch (downsampling)

2016-09-17 Thread drmatt
I'm not sure all DACs do sound the same (though I agree the differences are extremely small), but that seems to be a holy war round here so I'm not going to debate it further, just leave the OP to experiment at leisure. I am not into orchestral music so my requirements don't match the OPs and I

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: Simple Library Views plugin

2016-09-16 Thread drmatt
One further request .. I have music all over the place depending on the source, so is it possible to implement a view that's "everything, EXCEPT tagged folders .. "? Right now I have numerous methods of producing a "kids" view, but I really want a main view that's "everything but the kid's

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

2016-09-15 Thread drmatt
Yeah, I like the iPlayer extras categories, very handy. drmatt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=59498 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104672

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

2016-09-15 Thread drmatt
bpa wrote: > 1.4.7 still seems to grow the cache.db file but at a much smaller rate - > this needs to be checked. Once cache.db has grown it does not seem to > shrink even after expiry of entries or purging - this needs to be > confirmed. FWIW my cache.db grew to over 1GB with a running stream

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

2016-09-14 Thread drmatt
Giza2020 wrote: > > I wanted to let you know im also experiencing the play 1 sec, pause 2-3 > secs and then off we go with lovely bbc playing :-) > > Not bothering me really but thought you'd like to know that it's > happening her in the UK for me. > > Latest LMS on synology > Your latest

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: Simple Library Views plugin

2016-09-08 Thread drmatt
Depends how you do the search. If the search occurs per-leaf then it's likely there will be a lot of them and it will be expensive. If you can hold a single value in memory and apply it to all subfolders until it finds a different value as it scans, then fine. In short, never find yourself at the

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

2016-09-03 Thread drmatt
Yes, it's OT, sorry. I found an old thread where it was mentioned too. drmatt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=59498 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53229

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

2016-09-03 Thread drmatt
If someone were to add a simple to use Bluetooth audio streaming device as an input plugin to LMS, allowing you to stream from your phone straight to one or more squeezeboxes in your house, the ecosystem would have a shot in the arm of oxygen and fill the remaining glaring omission in home audio

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: Simple Library Views plugin

2016-08-15 Thread drmatt
Seems to me it's a simple case of going into the parent folder of the tree you want to set a certain tag in and typing: "find . -type d -exec touch {}/simple-library-views-libraryviewname \;" drmatt's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Squeezer: open source Android Squeezeserver remote control

2016-06-24 Thread drmatt
Jeddie wrote: > Just downloaded Squeezer. My first reaction is I agree with Flacforever; > I would like to be able to select 'album artists' instead of 'Artists'. > This is a must for me. > > Also it doesn't seem to accommodate Library views from LMS. Even the > native logictech app does this?

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] MusicIP - analyse on one computer, serve on different?

2016-06-10 Thread drmatt
rkrug wrote: > drmatt writes: > > > Stupid question - where the heck do I get the musicip code from to do > > the tagging (I'd rather do a full sweep offline and embed tags)? > > Probably best source: > > http://www.spicefly.com/article.php?page=musicip-sof

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] MusicIP - analyse on one computer, serve on different?

2016-06-10 Thread drmatt
Stupid question - where the heck do I get the musicip code from to do the tagging (I'd rather do a full sweep offline and embed tags)? drmatt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=59498 View this

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

2016-06-03 Thread drmatt
http://www.altaro.com/hyper-v/ubuntu-linux-server-hyper-v-guest/ This is one option. LMS is easy to integrate on Ubuntu. drmatt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=59498 View this thread:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: Simple Library Views plugin

2016-06-03 Thread drmatt
I will find out useful when I get around to implementing it. Fed up with just genre tags, this is much more scriptable. Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk drmatt's Profile:

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

2016-05-31 Thread drmatt
OK I think the issue is on my android app end, and I think it's to do with the track time. If I queue two items using the squeezer app on android then playback hangs after the program finishes, but if I queue the same items from the web interface playback moves to the next item just fine. Next

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

2016-05-31 Thread drmatt
Yeah it's currently set to dash. I was desperate to get the iPlayer extras stuff back so I got the best iPlayer plugin for free with the repo. Will gather some details and head over there. Cheers. drmatt's Profile:

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

2016-05-31 Thread drmatt
It happens on any BBC content whether sourced from iPlayer plugin or iPlayer extras for me. I am setting the dash stream as the primary but I'll have to get more details when I'm at home. I updated the plugins about three days ago from your repo so they are very new. Basically next/ previous

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

2016-05-31 Thread drmatt
Back to the iPlayer topic. Is it just me or does it refuse to do "previous"/"next" when playing from iPlayer extras? Any programs in the playlist are a dead end. They play in their turn but then the player stops at the end, it won't move on to the next track.

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

2016-05-26 Thread drmatt
So glad this stuff is all working again. Really appreciate the work that goes into keeping this alive, particularly in face of constant messing around from the BBC end. :) drmatt's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Smart Mix plugin

2016-05-18 Thread drmatt
Cut-Throat wrote: > Well, that sucks ! --- Too Bad, Smart Mix was my Main Venue! Sigh, back to wrestling with MusicIP and wine and all that nonense.. drmatt's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Triode's plugins

2016-05-16 Thread drmatt
I'm happy, it was just a thought. drmatt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=59498 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105599

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Triode's plugins

2016-05-16 Thread drmatt
Time to add a local plugin repository? Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk drmatt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=59498 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105599