Oh well, it took me a while, but I am now a happy 7.3.3 user.
All fine - but although the delay from track change to readout change
is slightly better on AAC+ streams, it's still nowhere near the
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A gentle bump here. Let me put it another way. Is anyone successfully
running softsqueeze from the browser interface on a Mac running SC
7.3.3? If so, how do you do it?
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bpa;467222 Wrote:
BBC problem - the feeds which should contain program info are empty
Do we have to wait for the BBC to fill them up, or is it a matter of
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Seems to be back up and working this morning. Radio 4, at least; haven't
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I've been using SuperDateTime (currently 5.8.7) successfully for ages to
get weather info on my screensaver for my two SB3s (SC 7.3.3). Last few
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and then came upon this longer post.
I do not want to upgrade to 7.4.x. Can we have a fix for 7.3.3, too,
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GoCubs;509098 Wrote:
Hey Whitman-
I haven't been following the anti 7.4 movement, in summary what's the
issue with it?
Regarding 7.3, has anyone tried running it on 7.4 (you'll have to
install it manually instead of using the repo). Perhaps it'll work, if
not has anyone tried copy/pasting
update but it wont be all
inclusive.
-Greg
Understood, Greg. I meant that 7.3.x in general ain't broke. But SDT
5.8.7 is. I'll keep my eye on the forum, and in the meantime I'll use
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(currently I am using a wunderground-station, but thats not very good,
lots of Info is missing or bad formatted)
Sunnysekot, I wonder if you've tried spiceyweather instead? It works
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Any news on this? I've been trying to get on to Jazzfm via Triode's
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JazzFM plugin (v0.2) doesn't work now.
It returns There was an error loading the remote feed for : (404 Not
Found).
The website now requires a login for that part of the listening service.
The JazzFM Live listening service
I'm wondering if Triode has perhaps 'retired' from working on his
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Thanks Gary. That's an interesting thread - I hadn't managed to find
that. Maybe cos it was in the Duet forum and not 3rd Party Software.
Anyway, it doesn't actually feature a Triode post, only someone saying
what they thought his response was. So I'm still wondering if Triode
does consider his
garym wrote:
yep, jazzFM (like many providers of internet streaming) is clueless.*
I've fought my battles in the past with some of these providers who
simply can't get past their idea that it works on any computer and
webbrowser). In that thread, the person reported what triode said in a
Thanks Triode. Apologies; I wasn't aware of the other time-consuming
stuff you were up to.
Same for me with the JazzFM mail-back of password. Not impressive.
Even so ... when you do get time, I would love to have their Audio On
Demand back as a possibility on my SBs.
Triode, any luck with updating the Jazz FM plugin? Still not working,
and I'd love to be able to listen to Dinner Jazz again when I want to.
Thanks!
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OK, looks like no go on Jazz FM.
Thanks anyway, Triode, for the years when your app did work.
Does anyone else perhaps have another method of listening to Jazz FM's
on-demand audio via the Squeezebox?
whitman's
Just in case anyone's interested (and it would appear not), I did manage
to get
http://listen.onmyradio.net:8000/
working, by the manual tune-in method. Apparently this is delivering AAC
64k converted to 705 FLAC.
I'm having no problem at all listening to BBC through the Squeezebox via
Triode's or bpa's plugins.
Jazz FM still a no-no for on demand listening, however. I did email Nick
Pitts, station manager at Jazz FM, about the problem, but no reply from
him after several weeks. It's hard to imagine a
Triode, many apologies. I'd kept an eye on the thread for a while and
seen nothing new, so I posted without reading! A silly thing to do.
So ... I will certainly check the updated plugin and come back with some
feedback.
Thank you!
Triode, this seems good.
I tried the new version of your plugin for my fave connection, Dinner
Jazz via OnDemand, and it worked well, although there were some
rebufferings (a regular occurrence in the old days, too, so I'm assuming
a persistent JazzFM problem). Quality good.
Thank you very
, given some comments in the forum - but this might
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Thank you, gents. Looks like an upgrade is on the cards, then. Triode,
you didn't answer my central question, though - if I upgrade, will I be
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Thanks. Upgrade it is.
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Bpa: it looks like the latest version is 7.5.0 at
mysqueezebox.com/download, but you recommend 7.5.1. How do I get that?
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OK. I've posted on the Squeezebox Server area with a couple of further
questions...
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?p=542239#post542239
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I asked if this plugin works on OSX, and RBM replied ...
RBM;564916 Wrote:
Works just fine on OSX here (10.6.4 on Core2Duo), but 10.5 should work
as well.
How do I get it? The instructions in post #1 say ...
Assuming you are running your server on windows or linux...
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Follow the same instructions. The OSX version was added after the
original post (which has now been edited to say this)
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snaps of their SB3 in action?
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Thanks Triode. I certainly do intend to install and look. I'm used to
using online Spotify (as a lucky early free user) and was just curious
how closely the plugin shadows that: Radio? Library?, previous
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Squeezebox. Even some MP3s sound better to me than the Spotify
streams.
I'm not sure I'll want to continue the premium Spotify sub if this is
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seem to make any difference. I'm
assuming therefore, Triode, that the setting at Stream Quality in your
plugin's prefs determines the quality that gets to the Squeezebox,
irrespective of whether Sound/Enable High Bit Rate is checked or not in
the prefs at the Spotify app/client?
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yes, see my question above about interaction between Spotify's
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more still stands? If so, this really does sound like the trigger for
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On reflection, I suspect my question about the laptop trial would be
better put to the General Discussion forum, so I'll do that now. Thanks
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installation? If so, where does it go? If not, where do
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Plus running. But I can't remember. Could you remind me what to do?
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Ah yes. Anyway, I tried downloading the 'plugin' at that link, but all I
get is a file called AACplusLinux.tar.gz.html, which is surely not what
I want. Doesn't do anything, anyway. Is there another way to get this?
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are higher
quality than the top MP3 streams. In order to run AACplus streams on my
SB3, I've presumed I just need mplayer and this aacpm 'plugin'. But now
these probs. Maybe I should be content with MP3.
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Understood bpa. Do you think it's worth me starting a new thread to try
to attract a helpful OSX user? I might try an OSX forum elsewhere on
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Good, yes I'll try an OSX forum and report back. But, of course, in the
meantime if anyone OSX-inclined should be reading this and can offer
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Types, but greyed out.
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/SqueezeCenter.prefPane/Contents/server/Slim/Plugin,
/Users/Tony/Library/Application Support/SqueezeCenter/Plugins,
/Library/Application Support/SqueezeCenter/Plugins,
/Users/Tony/Library/PreferencePanes/SqueezeCenter.prefPane/Contents/server/Plugins
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Hello bpa. Does the info in that last message help at all?
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Apologies, bpa, for dragging you away from Alien work.
Could there be a prob with mplayer? In other words, my assumption is
that your aacplus 'plugin' tells an aacplus stream to look for mplayer,
and mplayer 'plays' it. So is there a way to test if mplayer is working
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Sorry I'm being dim here.
Is there another way to get aacplus feeds into SC without your
'plugin', perhaps? I seem to remember when I got it going in 6.5.x I
had to change some config files or similar.
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a bit confused by that. Where might these
be?
Your 3rd point: do you mean the name of the file? If so, it's clean.
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Ah ha. I hadn't noticed this. It says ...
Plugin is incompatible with this version of SqueezeCenter. Please
update.
Now what?
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At present the line in question reads...
maxVersion7.0+/maxVersion
So do I change it to...
maxVersion7.2.1+/maxVersion
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I agree, and for once it's quite easy to do a reasonably rapid A/B test
by having an MP3 stream and an AACplus stream on the Favourites and
rapidly switch between. No contest, to my ears.
Thanks for the tuner2 tip, too.
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the actual playing track. In other words, there's a
delay between the song changing and the readout changing. Is there
anything I can do at my end to fix the delay? It wasn't like this when
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Understood. What does 7.3 have in store?
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in the pain of very recent upgrading to 7.2.x from
6.5.x, but I can't help myself to ask: is it a good time to step up to
7.3? Or maybe I ought to wait a bit. I do value my sanity (again, that
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Very good advice, bpa, for which many thanks. I shall pin up your list
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Ah yes, I was forgetting The New Way. I am but a humble 7.2.1 user -
like many others, I suspect. Just figured it was made a little
difficult for us to find out about something very good.
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Thanks for underlining it so succinctly, bonze: that's the point I was
trying to make. Triode's work deserves better visibility - that's all.
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I did log in. No tabs as far as I could see. Or am I missing something.
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Oh, I get tabs all right, but nothing like 'edit'. I have (left to
right) 'article', 'discussion', 'view source', 'history', 'watch'.
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How weird. Nope, checked again and I still get what I said. No 'edit' in
sight. OK, I give up. No good deed this time, then. I'll just have to
give an extra 10p to the Big Issue seller instead.
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Thanks, bpa, I'll take a look.
I wonder in the meantime if any Mac users have found a way to stream
Spotify to an SB without buying new software to do it.
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these settings work. Against AACplus, for example, I
have:
FLAC 'aacpmplayer.sh/flac'
MP3 'aacmplayer.sh/lame'
WAV 'aacpmplayer.sh'
What does that mean? What am I sending to what?
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://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2009/02/better_audio_for_bbc_radio_onl.html
...says that BBC radio iPlayer is now using AACfamily streams for the
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OK bpa, thanks.
How about my question I'd like to be hearing Apple lossless and AAC+
at best possible quality. Is there a way of ensuring that? Or do I just
trust SC to have my best interests at heart?
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Just a gentle bump: so, no Mac users have managed to get Spotify working
on an SB without extra software?
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Thanks bpa. I'm puzzled by mention of 7.3.3. The 'general discussion'
forum implies that 7.3.2 is the latest SC version.
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voice, let alone a programme or music. (The SB is running
everything else perfectly, by the way.)
Is there something else I should be doing?
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Thanks bpa.
The RTSP boxes are checked.
I got the exact mplayer that Cohen suggested, from the alienbbc site, a
specific build for Mac OS.
I haven't done a standalone text of mplayer becasue I don't know how
to. It currently sits in an obscure usr/bin.
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Thanks Danco.
'Checking stream' (or similar) comes up as I try to connect to Listen
Live and archived programs, but nothing happens beyond that.
I've already upped the radio timeout to 90.
I've never used terminal before, but perhaps I should try what you
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Trace/BPT trap
Does that tell us anything?
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I hope all this can tell us more.
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Thanks olmo and bpa. So, is there one that will run on 10.3? Perhaps the
AlienBBC developers might be able to help me here?
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, it is a similar name. I should have selected
SuperDateTime Screensaver. Of course. Anyway, SDT is sublime.
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, mono'd. I tried it direct on my Mac from the BBC website
and Replay was in glorious stereo (with John back at the mic). Is this a
known fault on AlienBBC, or have I somehow mangled my settings?
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proper stereo via AlienBBC, I think my settings must have
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Thanks bpa. I did play it through softsqueeze through the Mac speakers
and it was proper stereo. Anyway, tried your command and got this...
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Most bizarre: this morning I cannot connect to BBC stations at all with
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