Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 4.6 - sorting option for Albums/Artists/Songs, replay gain fix

2021-07-15 Thread whitman
mherger wrote: > > I set the Spotty file types as in post #9 here, in other words... > > > > 35243 > > Your attachment isn't accessible any more. FLAC spotty/flac MP3 Disabled [greyed out] Ogg Vorbis Disabled PCM spotty mherger wrote: > > So, playing Spotty on my SB3 or Radio or DAC32 and

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 4.6 - sorting option for Albums/Artists/Songs, replay gain fix

2021-07-14 Thread whitman
I've always been somewhat baffled by the file type settings, so wanted to be sure I have this right. I set the Spotty file types as in post #9 here, in other words... 35243 So, playing Spotty on my SB3 or Radio or DAC32 and choosing info shows "OGG VORBIS (SPOTIFY) (CONVERTED TO PCM)". Is

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Community Firmware for Squeezebox Radio/Touch/Controller and LMS 8

2021-04-13 Thread whitman
OK chaps, I'll ignore it. I'm running 8.1.1, by the way. whitman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9053 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=113479

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Community Firmware for Squeezebox Radio/Touch/Controller and LMS 8

2021-04-13 Thread whitman
mherger wrote: > > I've got a Radio and so this thread intrigued me. Like tw99, though, > I > > have no idea what this is or what it does, and nowhere does it seem > to > > tell us. An explanation wold be nice... or maybe it's a nerd-only > thing, > > where if you need to ask you obviously

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Community Firmware for Squeezebox Radio/Touch/Controller and LMS 8

2020-12-22 Thread whitman
tw99 wrote: > What would be the advantage of moving to the latest firmware from a > user's point of view ? Currently both my Radio and Touch work well > enough, apart from the reboot-every-24?-days bug. > > Or is this more of a future-proofing thing at the moment ? I've got a Radio and so

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce : BBC Sounds Plugin

2020-11-06 Thread whitman
Paul Webster wrote: > It has always been like that (well since LMS 7 I think). > Sometimes developers have not had their plugin included in the list or > have made a special repo to get beta versions. Interesting. I realise this is a bit off-topic here, but you have me wondering now about

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce : BBC Sounds Plugin

2020-11-05 Thread whitman
expectingtofly wrote: > As Paul says, this plugin is now in the 3rd party plugins. It will > continue to get updates if installed from there (and you now remove the > beta repository). > > Only keep the beta repository if you explicitly would like to do some > beta testing. That's surprising

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce : BBC Sounds Plugin

2020-11-04 Thread whitman
This plugin is good, so thanks. However, I'm confused about which repository is the correct one to have. I have the beta repository and that seems to be triggering updates, but I've seen at least two others noted in various posts here. Can you clarify?

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 4.4 - more personalised content

2020-10-13 Thread whitman
mherger wrote: > > (I just posted this in the other Spotty thread and now I wonder if > that > > may have been the wrong place—so I'm posting here, too.) ... I'm > using > > Spotty on my two Classics. I have several playlists in Spotify, and I > > want to play them in shuffle mode. I can't

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.6.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2020-10-13 Thread whitman
whitman wrote: > I'm using Spotty on my two Classics. I have several playlists in > Spotify, and I want to play them in shuffle mode. I can't see a way to > do that, either with my remote and a Classic, or with iPeng and a > Classic. I suspect I'm missing something obvious, but I'd

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 4.4 - more personalised content

2020-10-12 Thread whitman
(I just posted this in the other Spotty thread and now I wonder if that may have been the wrong place—so I'm posting here, too.) ... I'm using Spotty on my two Classics. I have several playlists in Spotify, and I want to play them in shuffle mode. I can't see a way to do that, either with my

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.6.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2020-10-12 Thread whitman
I'm using Spotty on my two Classics. I have several playlists in Spotify, and I want to play them in shuffle mode. I can't see a way to do that, either with my remote and a Classic, or with iPeng and a Classic. I suspect I'm missing something obvious, but I'd be grateful if someone can point me

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Radio Paradise Lossless Streamingv3

2020-05-14 Thread whitman
Leftchannel, those RP forum items you linked to certainly imply that increased use of RP might be a factor here. For me (Virgin ISP in UK) things were a little better yesterday (Wed 13), with Regular stream better at what I'd describe as pretty stable, but Interactive still very wobbly. The MP3

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Radio Paradise Lossless Streamingv3

2020-05-12 Thread whitman
I've been getting a lot of rebuffering of the kind we suffered before it was fixed a while back, on both the FLAC Interactive and FLAC regular streams. MP3 seems OK. I wondered if anyone else is experiencing this, before I dig deeper into my setup if it turns out to be just me.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Player for MacOS by verified developer

2020-05-09 Thread whitman
Osamede, try right-clicking (control-clicking) on the app and then choose to open it. whitman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9053 View this thread:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce - Song info plugin for ABC Australia radio

2020-05-03 Thread whitman
Paul, thanks for this. Especially useful for me, because I had no idea about ABC. I've just tried the jazz and classical stations, and all working fine, apparently timely and accurate. (I also tried your new KCRW what-are-they-playing plugin; I already knew about KCRW Eclectic, which I love

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Jazz Groove Support

2019-12-07 Thread whitman
bluetdi wrote: > There are 64k aac-Streams too. All dont seem to show album-covers and > station-icon at the moment. The 64k AAC streams are what I use ... http://east-aac-64.streamthejazzgroove.com/stream http://west-aac-64.streamthejazzgroove.com/stream ... and they sound pretty good to

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBCiPlayer V1.6 (and higher) & BBCiPlayerExtra 2.0 (and higher) Support

2019-09-25 Thread whitman
bpa wrote: > No idea and nothing in BBC vendor feeds show it. All the earlier info > indicated that it would be a DAB station so perhaps for broadcast rights > it may be UK only. Some of the info in the web pages seems to indicate > a station id called bbc_radio_two_beatles > > Until

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBCiPlayer V1.6 (and higher) & BBCiPlayerExtra 2.0 (and higher) Support

2019-09-25 Thread whitman
bpa wrote: > If it is on DAB it should appear in the feed which tells vendors what > BBC DAB stations are available. > http://radio-service-information.api.bbci.co.uk/radiodns/spi/3.1/SI.xml > > BBC have a near equivalent which details all the DASH/HLS/MP3 stations > (originally for imda) -

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBCiPlayer V1.6 (and higher) & BBCiPlayerExtra 2.0 (and higher) Support

2019-07-16 Thread whitman
bpa wrote: > There is no "better" - just an alternative if you have had problems. > > The repo URL is as below. Only really necessary if you find many > "Timeout" in your log file relating to this repo - often noticed by long > delays when booting/restarting LMS > >

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBCiPlayer V1.6 (and higher) & BBCiPlayerExtra 2.0 (and higher) Support

2019-07-16 Thread whitman
OK, thanks, all fixed now. For future updates, would I be better switching to a github repo, if the sourceforge is dodgy? If yes, could you tell me what it is, please. bpa wrote: > Oops. > > Because of problems with sourceforge.net (e.g. timeouts on accessing > repo URL) I have been

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBCiPlayer V1.6 (and higher) & BBCiPlayerExtra 2.0 (and higher) Support

2019-07-15 Thread whitman
Bpa, I don't get 3.2.0 offered as an update in the web ui. Mac OS 10.14.5, LMS 7.9.1, BBC iPlayer 1.6.7, BBC iPlayer Extras 3.1.0, repo http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/bpaplugins/betarelease-repo.xml. Anything not right? bpa wrote: > I have restores the "genres" and "A-Z" menu using

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Radio Paradise Lossless Streaming (Plugin v2)

2019-05-30 Thread whitman
left channel wrote: > The FLAC streams available via the LMS plugin have that info, as do the > low-res AAC and MP3 Internet Radio streams (as well as the Ogg Vorbis > streams, when they work). But this new FLAC Internet Radio stream does > not, and the previous test versions did not. From the

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Radio Paradise Lossless Streaming (Plugin v2)

2019-05-30 Thread whitman
left channel wrote: > Yes that is expected. Apparently it's not possible to include metadata > with FLAC streams, but as I noted they're going to provide an API that > custom apps can use to grab that info. Given the problems we're > experiencing with the LMS plugin, maybe it's time to start

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Radio Paradise Lossless Streaming (Plugin v2)

2019-05-29 Thread whitman
left channel wrote: > Just saw this posted on the RP forum. I believe these are the final > internet radio FLAC urls! > > "We've sorted out the issues on our FLAC stream encoder, and these URLs > should work fine now — bandwidth permitting, of course." > Main Mix:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBCiPlayer V1.6 (and higher) & BBCiPlayerExtra 2.0 (and higher) Support

2018-12-11 Thread whitman
Yep, that worked. Should I delete these repos? ... http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/bpaplugins/V154testrelease-repo.xml and http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/bpaplugins/iheartradio-repo.xml whitman's

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBCiPlayer V1.6 (and higher) & BBCiPlayerExtra 2.0 (and higher) Support

2018-12-11 Thread whitman
Thanks Slarti, I'll try that one. whitman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9053 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109826

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBCiPlayer V1.6 (and higher) & BBCiPlayerExtra 2.0 (and higher) Support

2018-12-11 Thread whitman
bpa wrote: > That is a dead thread - IIRC the poster wants to play an egptyian RTMP > stream using BBCipLayer -2.1 refers to BBCiPlayerExtra. I got mixed up > because it is old & history. > > Use 1.6.1 - it fixes some small problems. > > 2.1 as per the first post in this thread is the latest

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBCiPlayer V1.6 (and higher) & BBCiPlayerExtra 2.0 (and higher) Support

2018-12-11 Thread whitman
Bpa, I saw in the dead "BBCiPlayer plugin - a guick fix guide" thread you said yesterday << V2.1.0 of the BBCIplayer plugin is the latest. Use this URL. http://downloads.sourceforge.net/pro...lease-repo.xml >>. I'm still using 1.6.0, should I switch to 2.1.0?

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce - Song info plugin for FIP radio

2018-03-01 Thread whitman
mherger wrote: > >So: yes, please give 7.9.1 a try. As of today it is at least as stable > > as 7.9.0 ever was. Well Michael, I'm glad you encouraged me. Installed 7.9.1, all running well ... and I have my FIP track/artist readouts back! Thanks so much to you, and to Paul W.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce - Song info plugin for FIP radio

2018-02-28 Thread whitman
mherger wrote: > Whitman - here are a few things you could try: > > Run the following command in the terminal: > > Code: > > perl -MIO::Socket::SSL -e 'print $IO::Socket::SSL::VERSION' > > > > What does tha

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce - Song info plugin for FIP radio

2018-02-28 Thread whitman
Michael thanks for the suggestions etc, will check this eve and report back. whitman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9053 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106900

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce - Song info plugin for FIP radio

2018-02-28 Thread whitman
Thanks for the debug sesh, Paul. Let’s hope someone with Mac savvy can help further — and it would be interesting to know if 7.9.1 has the necessary. whitman's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce - Song info plugin for FIP radio

2018-02-27 Thread whitman
Trying to PM you and not working. Am I jinxed at the moment? whitman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9053 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106900

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce - Song info plugin for FIP radio

2018-02-27 Thread whitman
Paul, that's very generous of you. Yep, in UK. How about 3pm? whitman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9053 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106900

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce - Song info plugin for FIP radio

2018-02-26 Thread whitman
Thanks for the reply, Paul, but I don't understand what you're suggesting. I "see the problem happening" all the time: I never get a track/artist readout, just the station name, without fail. whitman's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce - Song info plugin for FIP radio

2018-02-26 Thread whitman
Right, here's a bit of the log when I started playing Autour du Jazz, and still all I get here is a readout of "FIP autour du jazz" where previously I got track and artist info ... [18-02-26 18:27:08.3974] Plugins::RadioFrance::Plugin::getmeta (393) fipjazz - Fetching data from

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce - Song info plugin for FIP radio

2018-02-25 Thread whitman
Paul, sorry, long time since I did this, you'll have to talk me through the logging debugging whatever. Sorry to be a pain. Oh, and date/time is running accurately on the Mac hosting LMS. whitman's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce - Song info plugin for FIP radio

2018-02-22 Thread whitman
Hmm, not for me still this morning. FIP main just gives me "FIP" on my SB3 readout and the others "FIP Autour ... ". Looking like prob my end? Not sure what to try next. whitman's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce - Song info plugin for FIP radio

2018-02-21 Thread whitman
Paul, last few days I'm getting no track info for the main FIP station, nor for FIP jazz and FIP rock. Is it just me? whitman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9053 View this thread:

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

2017-08-29 Thread whitman
OK, thanks bpa. Sounds like the V154 url is the one to have, then. whitman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9053 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104672

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

2017-08-29 Thread whitman
I didn't explain properly. I chopped off the http bit in the url in -my post- so it would read on the forum. Anyway, to clarify, my question is, given all the urls swirling around here, what is the definitive url that I should have in my repo for BBC iPlayer and what is the definitive url that I

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

2017-08-29 Thread whitman
I see the forum software has squashed that repo URL (I think this has been a problem here). I've clipped off the http from the front which seems to reproduce it more or less in full ... downloads.sourceforge.net/project/bpaplugins/V154ftestrelease-repo.xml

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

2017-08-29 Thread whitman
bpa wrote: > To avoid lots of repos URLs in use - I will delete the URL below on 1st > Sept > http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/bpaplugins/V154ftestrelease-repo.xml > I'm currently using http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/bpaplugins/V154testrelease-repo.xml as my repo and have

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Guide to installing BBC iPlayer

2017-07-20 Thread whitman
bpa wrote: > If it works at the moment - leave it. Going back can sometimes has > problems with preferences. If you are not using Flac then any updates to > V1.5..4.* are unlilkely to affect you. > > 1.5.4.* is the version which has Flac implemented. An update (soon) to > 1.5.4.5 will also

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Guide to installing BBC iPlayer

2017-07-20 Thread whitman
bpa wrote: > Unless you want to really want to play DASH Flac streams (only for > duration of Proms) it is better to use this repo > > http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/bpaplugins/betarelease-repo.xml > > The V154 repo will only ever stay on V1.5.4.* and is the "experimental" > repo

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce - Song info plugin for FIP radio

2017-06-20 Thread whitman
Yep, got it now. Thanks for the continuing work! Or rather merci bien, I should say. whitman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9053 View this thread:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce - Song info plugin for FIP radio

2017-06-20 Thread whitman
OK, no prob, I'll take a look later. Actually, should I have a repo.xml url for you in the Additional Repositories bit? I don't at present. whitman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9053 View this

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce - Song info plugin for FIP radio

2017-06-20 Thread whitman
Active Plugins still showing v0.1.9, even after a restart. whitman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9053 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106900

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce - Song info plugin for FIP radio

2017-06-20 Thread whitman
Paul, am I looking the right place? I don't see anything in 3rd Party Plugins for the new version. Or is it still waiting to get there? whitman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9053 View this

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayerExtra v2.0

2017-06-16 Thread whitman
For me, using Safari 10.1.1 on MacOS 10.12.5, it's still the case that if you right-click on a shortened url in this forum and choose the only relevant option, "Copy Link", and then paste it somewhere, you get just the shortened version. Do it in Chrome or Opera, and you're offered "Copy Link

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce - Song info plugin for FIP radio

2017-02-26 Thread whitman
Paul Webster wrote: > You should see a version 1.8 appear soon. Paul, 1.8 seems to deliver the track info etc more consistently. Good stuff! Still seemingly pretty random in terms of quality, mostly either 128 or 192 MP3s.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce - Song info plugin for FIP radio

2017-02-20 Thread whitman
OK, I'll have a play around with a few things and see what I get. Thanks for taking the time. whitman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9053 View this thread:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce - Song info plugin for FIP radio

2017-02-20 Thread whitman
Paul Webster wrote: > I just played Autour Du Rock and Jazz from command line ... and they > were 192k > AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 192.0 kbit/12.50% (ratio: 24000->192000) > Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm: mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3) > > For the regular FIP station, TuneIn

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce - Song info plugin for FIP radio

2017-02-19 Thread whitman
lopasilver wrote: > My experience is that Radio France streams (from pdf above) are 128 kbps > and much better quality than Tunein one's (64 kbps by default). But both > working fine with your plugin I'm also getting 128 kbps MP3 from those pdf URLs, and they sound good. The two autour-du

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce - Song info plugin for FIP radio

2017-02-16 Thread whitman
Paul, I've been noticing that about the absence of readouts during the lovely jazzafip section, too. However ... if you switch to one of the regional feeds during jazzafip -- I've been using Strasbourg since our chum lopasilver posted that pdf of URLs -- you'll find that the artist and song

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce - Song info plugin for FIP radio

2017-02-05 Thread whitman
Paul, just wanted to thank you for this plugin. I stumbled on FIP toward the end of last year and I love the main station. The one thing lacking, given my rudimentary French, was a readout of artist and title ... and now you've filled that gap. I didn't know about your earlier plugin, but this

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

2016-11-27 Thread whitman
bpa wrote: > Sorry I'm not sure - the changes to 1.95 were small and I've got tied up > with other things (a small one line update that has snowballed) that I > didn't test it. I didn't want to put 1.9.5 on general release as that > would cause an automatic update and possibly trigger many

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

2016-11-27 Thread whitman
bpa wrote: > IIRC The problem is due to a change made by BBC which Extras 1.9.3 can't > handle but 1.9.5 can. When you disable DASH you get to play the Flash > version which works but IIRC is usually lower quality than DASH (I can't > test because it is a UK only thing) Can I use 1.9.5 with

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

2016-11-27 Thread whitman
bpa wrote: > Last 7 days only. BBciPlayerExtra gets access to all of iPlayer > programs. > Setting look OK - must be one of the small changes I made. I'll have to > test later. Workaround - use BBCiPlayer > Radio 2 > Sounds of the 60s - > it's ok for last 7 days progs. Bpa, I still can't get

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

2016-11-22 Thread whitman
Indeed yes, sorry. whitman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9053 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106409 ___ plugins

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

2016-11-22 Thread whitman
Bpa, interesting that man in a van (post 74 above, also in UK) is successful with my iPlayerExtras route. whitman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9053 View this thread:

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

2016-11-22 Thread whitman
Interesting. I didn't know I could get On Demand through BBCiPlayer. I've always used Extras for that. Anyway, I just tried BBCiPlayer as follows: BBCiPlayer>BBC Radio 2>Saturday>08:05 Sounds Of The 60s, and that does play the show. So at least I know I can use that successfully. I was trying

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

2016-11-22 Thread whitman
Thanks Bpa. I've fiddled with a few settings for On demand, because there's nothing exactly as you suggested. This could be a coincidence, but I'm now getting "Playlist Empty" when I try to connect to some shows On Demand. To see if it is indeed coincidence and the Beeb are up to something,

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

2016-11-21 Thread whitman
I've had a further think, Bpa, and for now I'll continue with iPlayer 1.4.9 and Extras 1.9.3 (despite the fact I have your "report-short" repository in the Additional Repositories slot, Extras hasn't been updated to 1.9.5: should it?). I've changed the settings for Live (actually has to be this

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

2016-11-18 Thread whitman
Thanks Bpa, I'll sort it out at the weekend and report back. whitman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9053 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106409

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

2016-11-17 Thread whitman
bpa wrote: > Yes. If you don't have many messages in the log about long packet > response times and your system/LAN isn't stressed by many TCP > connections per sec needed to stream - then there is no reason but I > would expect all users to eventually migrate. > > However if BBC changes their

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

2016-11-09 Thread whitman
Thanks. bpa wrote: > Yes. If you don't have many messages in the log about long packet > response times and your system/LAN isn't stressed by many TCP > connections per sec needed to stream - then there is no reason but I > would expect all users to eventually migrate. > > However if BBC

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

2016-11-09 Thread whitman
Bpa, I'm assuming that as I'm on a Mac, with no rebuffering problems, I can safely stick to 1.4.9 ... even when this moves out of beta? whitman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9053 View this

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

2016-11-04 Thread whitman
Copperstate, thanks so much, that seems to have done it. Curious, too, because I have a note that I tried moving the dowloaded SDT folder to there some time ago, on your recommendation, and it didn't work then. Anyway, now fine, it seems. Good!

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

2016-11-04 Thread whitman
I did find someone with a similar-ish problem on a Mac back in January 2015, with a "solution" at post number 3155 on this page ... http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?14327-Announce-SuperDateTime-Current-Date-Temperature-and-or-Baseball-Screensaver=802945=1#post802945 ... but being so

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

2016-11-03 Thread whitman
Mac user here, OS 10.12.1, LMS 7.9.0. I keep the Superdatetime folder, as downloaded from Boomx2 on this thread (current version, 5.9.34), in Library/Caches/Squeezebox/InstalledPlugins/Plugins/. Recently, whenever I reboot the computer, SDT vanishes from that folder and, therefore, from LMS.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBC iPlayer Extras - problem?

2016-03-30 Thread whitman
Bpa, I changed the setting to DASH > HLS and (still) all is fine. Thank you. whitman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9053 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105389

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBC iPlayer Extras - problem?

2016-03-30 Thread whitman
OK, thanks bpa: I changed the BBC iPlayer settings, On Demand Stream Preference, to HLS > DASH > MP3 > FlashAAC > FlashMP3, and all seems to be working now. Is that the best setting to use? I'm a bit baffled by the long list of formats there. Do I need them all? There are certainly shorter lists

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBC iPlayer Extras - problem?

2016-03-30 Thread whitman
No problem. For example ... Click BBC iPlayer Extras List headed by "Latest by Station" appears. Click Radio 3 A-Z. List headed by "A programs" appears. Click J programs. List headed by "Jazz Library" appears. Click Jazz Record Requests. List headed by "Jazz Record Requests 26/03/2016" appears.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBC iPlayer Extras - problem?

2016-03-30 Thread whitman
I am using non-Dash. whitman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9053 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105389 ___ plugins

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBC iPlayer Extras - problem?

2016-03-30 Thread whitman
BBCiPlayer plugin is v1.4.7 BBCiPlayerExtras plugin is v1.9.3 whitman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9053 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105389

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBC iPlayer Extras - problem?

2016-03-29 Thread whitman
Apologies, bpa, for not clarifying the problem. In all cases, I get to the list of shows, I click on a show, the display appears to show the usual connection, but no sound. I just tried to play a couple of R3 shows, and the log has this ... [16-03-29 21:44:03.0464]

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBC iPlayer Extras - problem?

2016-03-28 Thread whitman
Bpa ... I get shows from today. Fail. Schedules fail, categories fail, A-Zs fail. The "On Demand Stream Preference" in the BBCiPlayer plugin reads HLS > MP3 > FlashAAC > Flash MP3. The only general change on my Mac recently has been that I've updated from OSX El Capitan 10.11.3 to 10.11.4.

[SlimDevices: Plugins] BBC iPlayer Extras - problem?

2016-03-27 Thread whitman
I'm still using the non-Dash version of bpa's BBC iPlayer Extras plugin. Nothing doing today: not a single show will play. Before I dig deeper, is anyone else having problems ... or is it just me? whitman's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Jazz FM changed again!

2016-03-15 Thread whitman
Frozzers, thanks for showing the way. Thing is, to be honest I rarely use the web view, so I didn't go far enough. But as slim-maikel says, it's those extra steps that deter. Anyway, I'll be sticking with TuneIn Radio and iPeng for now, as that's easy and clear.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Jazz FM changed again!

2016-03-15 Thread whitman
frozzers wrote: > If you click on a show it reveals the presenter and date. The catchup > list is in date order starting from most recent. To save clicking on > each show, just count back from one to seven days to find the Dinner > Jazz show you're looking for eg today's Wednesday so the fourth

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Jazz FM changed again!

2016-03-08 Thread whitman
Frozzers, the Tunein Radio scheme is very useful. Like others here, I have the Tunein app but, er ... never really looked at it. I've been trying to find a way to get back into Jazz FM playback for ages. (I posted a few times earlier in this thread.) The only negative I can see for now with

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBC Music Jazz through iPlayer plugins?

2015-11-13 Thread whitman
Bpa, where do I find that .opml file (on Mac OSX)? whitman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9053 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104598

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBC Music Jazz through iPlayer plugins?

2015-11-13 Thread whitman
Thanks bpa, that worked a treat. My misunderstanding: I was looking for something called "BBCiPlayerExtra menu.opml", but from your latest reply I realised I should be looking for "default.opml". I am now fully prepared to wig out.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBC Music Jazz through iPlayer plugins?

2015-11-10 Thread whitman
Thanks for the info. I'll give it a try when I'm back with my Squeezeboxes. I'm assuming these jazz shows will be listenable live only, or will they be Listenable Again? whitman's Profile:

[SlimDevices: Plugins] BBC Music Jazz through iPlayer plugins?

2015-11-09 Thread whitman
BBC Radio will have a pop-up station around the London jazz festival, details here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3kbwC4LcFWkLLGMQS0SLDY3/bbc-music-launches-jazz-pop-up-digital-radio-station-in-collaboration-with-jazz-fm Will the programmes, November 12th to 15th, be listenable with

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

2015-10-25 Thread whitman
I've come adrift from SDT (or is it the other way around?). I've just updated my Mac to Hello My Captain 10.11.1, and after a few updates and so on to bits of LMS, my SDT seems to have settled on 5.9.16. But I know late last year I updated to a tcutting new version from this forum, at least

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

2015-10-25 Thread whitman
Actually, I think it may have been a Boomx2 version. Is there a new one of that around? whitman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9053 View this thread:

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

2015-10-25 Thread whitman
Actually, and before you say anything, I ought to open my (insert your favourite coarse adjective) eyes, as Boomx2's latest was a few posts above. Sorry! Installed that one and all fine. I'll shut up now. Time for a drink ...

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

2015-10-25 Thread whitman
Again, thanks so much, Boomx2: as you'll see, I did get there (eventually) under my own steam, but I'm grateful for your all your work on SDT, and in this instance grateful for you taking the time to reply. whitman's

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBC iPlayer rebuffering

2015-06-09 Thread whitman
Well here's a simple thing I hadn't thought of. I was convinced the rebuffering was limited to the two iPlayers, and then about a week ago I suffered a severe bout of rebuffering while listening to Radio Paradise: a first for me, as far as I recall. Sod this, I thought, I'm going to adopt the IT

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBC iPlayer rebuffering

2015-05-11 Thread whitman
Well, looks like it was coincidence. Listening last night to a R2 Listen Again stream, and about an hour or so in, major rebuffering events. Ah well, back to square one. Any suggestions, anyone? whitman's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBC iPlayer rebuffering

2015-05-09 Thread whitman
Giza, interesting. I took your advice and switched off Upnp in plugins. Not entirely sure why it was there in the first place. Anyway, I streamed a few things over the last few evenings, and it's holding up well. I'll keep testing and report back, just in case it's coincidence, but fingers

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBC iPlayer rebuffering

2015-05-06 Thread whitman
Neil, no, I don't have Dynamic Mix installed, but I do have Dynamic Playlists. whitman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9053 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103481

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBC iPlayer rebuffering

2015-05-06 Thread whitman
Giza, I don't know what an uPNP is, so I can't imagine I have one. And there's nothing else trying to get on the network at the times of my rebuffering events. Neil, I checked the Logitech Media Server Log File, and no error messages, and nothing else at the time of this evening's rebuferring

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBC iPlayer rebuffering

2015-05-03 Thread whitman
My listening, mostly On Demand via BBC Extras, still plagued with rebuffering. This evening, for example, tried listening to Clare Teal, R2 26-4-15, and died after a minute or so, so I restarted the stream, successfully this time, but then rebuffering constantly after 20 minutes or so. Again,

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Jazz FM changed again!

2015-04-22 Thread whitman
In case anyone's still interested, I contacted Jazz FM and asked if they could come up with new URLs. Their first response was ... Responsibility for the server side stuff for all streaming on-demand is now with Sharpstream. ... We stopped using those set of links in December – and now each

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBC iPlayer rebuffering

2015-04-16 Thread whitman
Oh well, so much for that theory. Went to Extras this evening, around 6:45pm, and played the Listen Again stream of this week's Jamie Cullum show, R2. OK for about 40 minutes, then rebuffered very briefly, once. Just a jitter, I thought. Then about five minutes later, a rebuffering, then

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBC iPlayer rebuffering

2015-04-15 Thread whitman
Well, some interesting behaviour this evening. First, around 6:30pm, I started Bob Harris On Sunday, R2, BBCiPlayer. Stopped dead after about 6 minutes. Immediately restarted it, from the beginning: stopped dead about 8 minutes in. Not rebuffering: just a dead stop. Went to BBCiPlayer Extras

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