Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] A few words about bridges and my work in general

2022-12-11 Thread garym
Excellent points. And thanks so much for all you do to make this software so flexible and useful. *Home:* Pi4B-8GB/pCP8.3.x/4TB>LMS 8.2.x>Transporter, Touch, Boom, Radio (all ethernet) *Cottage:* rPi4B-4GB/pCP8.x/4TB>LMS 8.3.x>Touch>Benchmark DAC I, Boom, Radio w/Battery (Radio WIFI)

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] File Fomatting

2022-12-03 Thread garym
daleyb wrote: > Hi all, > > Just a quickie.. Just purchased a new SDD To connect to a Ras Pi. Just > Wondering My last HDD was NTSC and was fine. My new SSD is exFAT. Does > it need reformatting To NSTC or can I continue to copy my Flac files > From Windows in exFAT..? On the Instructions to

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] FLAC 1.4.2 support?

2022-11-24 Thread garym
slartibartfast wrote: > I can be pretty sure I will never have a problem with 32 bit FLAC > [emoji1787] > > Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk I was just thinking the same thing. :p *Home:* Pi4B-8GB/pCP8.3.x/4TB>LMS 8.2.x>Transporter, Touch, Boom, Radio (all ethernet) *Cottage:*

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

2022-11-05 Thread garym
Thanks for the work on this. Updated Radio, Touch, and Controller this morning. *Home:* Pi4B-8GB/pCP8.x/4TB>LMS 8.2.x>Transporter, Touch, Boom, Radio (all ethernet) *Cottage:* rPi4B-4GB/pCP8.x/4TB>LMS 8.2.x>Touch>Benchmark DAC I, Boom, Radio w/Battery (Radio WIFI) *Office:*

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] FLAC 1.4.2 support?

2022-10-29 Thread garym
slartibartfast wrote: > I thought Touch played 24/96 and Radio and Receiver played 24/48. > > Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk correct. And I have no issues playing 24/96 FLAC files on my touch or transporter. *Home:* Pi4B-8GB/pCP8.x/4TB>LMS 8.2.x>Transporter, Touch, Boom, Radio (all

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

2022-10-08 Thread garym
JJZolx wrote: > Someone remind me again... > > What does the community firmware fix, add or subtract from the standard > firmware? https://ralph_irving.gitlab.io/lms-community-firmware/changelog.html *Home:* Pi4B-8GB/pCP8.x/4TB>LMS 8.2.x>Transporter, Touch, Boom, Radio (all ethernet)

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

2022-09-28 Thread garym
I’m about 24 hours you’ll get a notice to install on your radio or touch. Nothing to set to reduce that wait. *Home:* Pi4B-8GB/pCP8.x/4TB>LMS 8.2.x>Transporter, Touch, Boom, Radio (all ethernet) *Cottage:* rPi4B-4GB/pCP8.x/4TB>LMS 8.2.x>Touch>Benchmark DAC I, Boom, Radio w/Battery (Radio WIFI)

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] iPeng support thread

2022-09-25 Thread garym
Pascal Hibon wrote: > That is probably because you are used to using Android. I have the same > feeling when I try using an Android device; it just doesn't do it for > me. But that is because I'm used to iOS devices. > Last year I bought a Mac Mini for my photo editing purposes. I'm a long >

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] iPeng support thread

2022-09-25 Thread garym
castalla wrote: > There are much better apps for Android and Windows than Apple's > offerings. In my book IOS is really overacted - I recently got an iPad > and find it.fiddly and awkward to use compared to my Android tablets. I think we like what we’re used to. :)I’ve used iPads and iPhones

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Spotty broken, can not play proper anymore

2022-04-04 Thread garym
Knudch wrote: > One thing on 1/4 I updated the spotty plugin to 4.8.1 > > Something might went wrong ? > > Or a BUG some where in relation to spotty plugin 4.8.1 ? > > Can I reverse to previous plugin version ? 4.8.1 is working fine on my end. I don't suspect a bug in 4.8.1, otherwise

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Spotty and File Types

2022-03-24 Thread garym
For another data point, my FLAC is disabled too. I've never changed my filetypes from default. I do have volume normalization turned on ("Smart Gain"). And I'm running LAME on rPi4B, with piCorePlayer. 37559 +---+ |Filename:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] SMB share only giving me ~1GB out of 931GB Win10 <-> RPi4 pCP

2022-02-27 Thread garym
Redrum wrote: > which copy sound best?:p:D > > four here I use WinSCP on my windows 10 machine to transfer files to USB drives connected to my rPi servers. p.s. re drives and backups. And I use freefilesync to keep all synced. 6 connected to active servers: home (2), cabin, work(2),

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2022-02-13 Thread garym
cpd73 wrote: > 2.9.0 is the latest released version. Fixes will be in 2.9.1 - not yet > released. Thanks! *Home:* Pi4B-8GB/pCP8.x/4TB>LMS 8.2.x>Transporter, Touch, Boom, Radio (all ethernet) *Cottage:* rPi4B-4GB/pCP8.x/4TB>LMS 8.2.x>Touch>Benchmark DAC I, Boom, Radio w/Battery (Radio WIFI)

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2022-02-13 Thread garym
what's the latest version of Material Skin? I feel like new versions have been discussed, but I've not seen any updates for a while. I'm currently running Ver 2.9.0. thanks! *Home:* Pi4B-8GB/pCP8.x/4TB>LMS 8.2.x>Transporter, Touch, Boom, Radio (all ethernet) *Cottage:*

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2022-02-06 Thread garym
Shozzer wrote: > Newbie question here. During the last week I have switched to > piCorePlayer on a R4 having previously run LMS only on Windows. Will the > update to this plugin automatically come through to my new server or is > there a manual step I need to take? > > Steve it works just

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

2022-01-30 Thread garym
Jaca wrote: > Yeah just been reading that it was shut down in 2019... Weird that Tidal > still lists it.. Hmm > > So just official mysqueezebox.com app/plugin... Are there any chances > for proper Tidal connect support? I guess if it was possible Michael > would already done it. sorry, no

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

2022-01-30 Thread garym
Jaca wrote: > Ohh yeah I imagine it could be difficult without anything similar to > connect. Is workable but not as convenient. > > What about ickStream? Does it allow for Tidal connect? > > Have not yet researched it but its listed as Tidal official method of > listening on squeezebox?? I

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

2022-01-30 Thread garym
Spacegrass wrote: > Thanks Garym. myoops.com ! :cool: *Home:* Pi4B-8GB/pCP8.x/4TB>LMS 8.2.x>Transporter, Touch, Boom, Radio (all ethernet) *Cottage:* rPi4B-4GB/pCP8.x/4TB>LMS 8.2.x>Touch>Benchmark DAC I, Boom, Radio w/Battery (Radio WIFI) *Office:* Win10(64)>foobar2

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

2022-01-29 Thread garym
Spacegrass wrote: > In case Julf did not already find this, you go on squeezebox.com to get > the Tidal app. You need a squeezebox.com account, and Tidal is under > "App Gallery". > slight correction. go to *my*squeezebox.com https://www.mysqueezebox.com/index/Home *Home:*

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

2022-01-28 Thread garym
and it is also installed as an APP under my mysqueezebox.com. Maybe you have to do that as well? *Home:* Pi4B-8GB/pCP8.x/4TB>LMS 8.2.x>Transporter, Touch, Boom, Radio (all ethernet) *Cottage:* rPi4B-4GB/pCP8.x/4TB>LMS 8.2.x>Touch>Benchmark DAC I, Boom, Radio w/Battery (Radio WIFI) *Office:*

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

2022-01-28 Thread garym
Julf wrote: > I don't see any plugin for it. 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? *Home:* Pi4B-8GB/pCP8.x/4TB>LMS 8.2.x>Transporter, Touch, Boom, Radio (all ethernet) *Cottage:* rPi4B-4GB/pCP8.x/4TB>LMS

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

2022-01-28 Thread garym
https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?115849-Comparisons-between-current-(2022)-streaming-service-integrations *Home:* Pi4B-8GB/pCP8.x/4TB>LMS 8.2.x>Transporter, Touch, Boom, Radio (all ethernet) *Cottage:* rPi4B-4GB/pCP8.x/4TB>LMS 8.2.x>Touch>Benchmark DAC I, Boom, Radio w/Battery

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

2022-01-28 Thread garym
I think TIDAL works with LMS. *Home:* Pi4B-8GB/pCP8.x/4TB>LMS 8.2.x>Transporter, Touch, Boom, Radio (all ethernet) *Cottage:* rPi4B-4GB/pCP8.x/4TB>LMS 8.2.x>Touch>Benchmark DAC I, Boom, Radio w/Battery (Radio WIFI) *Office:* Win10(64)>foobar2000 *The Wild: *rPi3B+/pCP7.x/4TB>LMS

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Tidal stutter using LMS

2022-01-20 Thread garym
Redrum wrote: > You could have fooled me, understood. Sorry to be persistent, but I was > trying to resolve since 12/25 and there were "crickets" (not the sport, > bug noise) :) > https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?111370-Tidal-stutter-using-LMS=1041298=1#post1041298 > > I was

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Tidal stutter using LMS

2022-01-20 Thread garym
Also, in another thread, @mherger noted tht he had "added a flag" to LMS8 to solve stuttering. Where is this 'flag' setting in LMS > Settings? Thanks. > > I'm never sure about the alternatives when native flac gets disabled. > > This might be related to "type" I think standard flc rules "PCM"

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Tidal stutter using LMS

2022-01-20 Thread garym
mherger wrote: > > Could someone walk me through inserting a custom conf file in the > > appropriate place to solve this for me. > > The latest LMS8 should have the necessary changes which would allow you > to transcode to PCM. > > > -- > > Michael I'm not sure exactly what Michael is

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

2022-01-12 Thread garym
I can't be of any help here, but just reporting that I'm running community firmware on everything, and I have only one RADIO WIFI connected RADIO, and it does not exhibit this problem. This RADIO is at a weekend place, and the internet is OFF when not there. But the RADIO always automatically

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

2022-01-07 Thread garym
beneix wrote: > I'm using a Radio. I recall having a bass drop-out issue a few years > ago; I think I resolved it with a 3rd party app called AlsaBufferSize. > Is that the same issue? > > In any case, it sounds like this firmware is aimed more at fixing issues > for people than at offering new

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2021-12-29 Thread garym
stereoptic wrote: > I'm not sure if this has been addressed here, Apologies if so. When > using Material Skin as I hover over the three dot colon to display the > full title name, each album name has "(menu)" at the end. The standard > skin does not do that, I believe it appends the year.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Different music servers

2021-12-26 Thread garym
Mattyrow wrote: > I realise LMS is a popular music server and Ive been reading up > on alternative ones like Moode and Volumino. Many folks suggest > everything else being equal (e.g. hardware) the sound from other servers > seem better. Now if its bit perfect to to each server, can > software

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2021-12-20 Thread garym
cpd73 wrote: > In my screenshot above, you can see an album cover lower left - this has > the double-disc icon in the top left of the cover. Aha. Got it. Works nicely for my multidisk albums where each disk is based on an original album release. And fortunately, I had already been adding the

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2021-12-20 Thread garym
cpd73 wrote: > Well, I mainly use if for albums where the discs are distinct. e.g. I > have some albums where the 2nd disc is instrumental versions of the > first, hence splitting them. So my titles would be "Main disc", > "Instrumental" I've setup the material skin plugin options (trying both

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2021-12-20 Thread garym
cpd73 wrote: > Fature release, main changes: > > > > - Add (server side) setting to use comment field as disc title for > multi-disc albums. > > > I've looked under all the server settings options and can't find any options for this. I'm sure I'm missing something obvious. thanks.

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

2021-12-15 Thread garym
Paul Webster wrote: > I don't know much about that system ... but looks like there are ways to > upgrade but depends on what version of Vortexbox you are running (which > perhaps depends on underlying hardware) > > https://www.vortexbox.org/forum/main-forum/3117-updated-version-of-lms-released

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

2021-11-28 Thread garym
P Nelson wrote: > Try connecting using Ethernet to see if problem goes away. If yes, then > you might have wifi network issues. > > As for my reported problem, it happened two times, but it has not > occurred recently. > > Paul And note that simply plugging in ethernet does not

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

2021-11-19 Thread garym
tommyz wrote: > Hi, I have two Touchs using Triodes EDO patch conncted to TEAC UD 301 & > 501, using Triodes experimantal kernals (#11 & #12). > > Will these still be needed / available after the update? > > br, Thomas community firmware doesn't change the need for EDO, if one needs EDO

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Stream What You Hear

2021-11-12 Thread garym
agbagb wrote: > I believe it was you who first pointed me at it - and most useful it is. > But I've been trying to see what was causing my laptop fan to be > running all the time, and the chassis to be red-hot,, and SWYH turned > out to be the culprit. I use it only once a month or so. agree.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Stream What You Hear

2021-11-12 Thread garym
agree. I use this often to stream things from SiriusXM. *Home:* Pi4B-8GB/pCP8.x/4TB>LMS 8.2.x>Transporter, Touch, Boom, Radio (all ethernet) *Cottage:* rPi4B-4GB/pCP8.x/4TB>LMS 8.2.x>Touch>Benchmark DAC I, Boom, Radio w/Battery (Radio WIFI) *Office:* Win10(64)>foobar2000 *The Wild:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Spotty App not visible on the browser LMS GUI

2021-10-13 Thread garym
garym wrote: > can't recall exactly, but in the past there were some apps (BBC and > others, maybe Spotty) that had some options on where they showed up in > the menu (one option was under "Radio" rather than under "my apps"). > Not sure about Spotty, but f

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Spotty App not visible on the browser LMS GUI

2021-10-13 Thread garym
slartibartfast wrote: > Is that possible? > > Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk can't recall exactly, but in the past there were some apps (BBC and others, maybe Spotty) that had some options on where they showed up in the menu (one option was under "Radio" rather than under "my apps").

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Spotty App not visible on the browser LMS GUI

2021-10-13 Thread garym
CosiBone wrote: > Dear all, > > recently I have a strange issue with SPOTTY (latest version 4.6.2) on > my debian LMS installation. > The Spotty-App does not show up on the LMS menu. > > On the devices as such this is working fine. > > Any idea to make the app visible on the browser

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

2021-10-06 Thread garym
dbinfl wrote: > Hello all, > I came across this plugin yesterday and enabled it to see what it > offered. I see touch/radio/controller are listed, but unfortunately, not > the Boom, so I did not apply it. I did search this thread for "boom" but > only found references in user's device lists.

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

2021-09-21 Thread garym
slartibartfast wrote: > I had a new firmware for my controller as well. I haven't checked the > Touch yet. > > Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk I had new firmware a few days ago for CONTROLLER, RADIO, and TOUCH. All updated smoothly, except for CONTROLLER. It wouldn't let me move off

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

2021-09-06 Thread garym
JJZolx wrote: > They're independent of one-another, that's all. They overlap other > channels, same as all the others. Yes, that's a better way of putting it (non sharing is not actually correct). Just that these three are non-*overlapping.

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

2021-09-05 Thread garym
te36 wrote: > I was wondering if it could help to force the radio to not scan channels > by only ever attempt to use one specific channel and make it different > from the usual channels 1,6,11. Alas, i couldn't figure out how to > configure that. Shouldn’t this be something you set in your

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

2021-08-15 Thread garym
Man in a van wrote: > Ah! the former colonies; time we had them back :):), please :p > > ronnie Brex-IN :p *Home:* Pi4B-8GB/pCP8.x/4TB>LMS 8.2.x>Transporter, Touch, Boom, Radio (all ethernet) *Cottage:* rPi4B-4GB/pCP8.x/4TB>LMS 8.2.x>Touch>Benchmark DAC I, Boom, Radio w/Battery (Radio

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] iPeng support thread

2021-07-12 Thread garym
GLUDFSSR wrote: > I have done that, and not checked off any of the 3 options to include > with it and then rescan everything but only get on Ipeng 1 Artist icon > (which is what I Want)’ but it only contains items that I tagged with > ALBUMARTIST. I want it to also include all Artists, Except

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] iPeng support thread

2021-07-12 Thread garym
GLUDFSSR wrote: > > 2. - On a separate issue which might not be an Ipeng issue is that after > putting in the LMS update I have noticed that in the Artist list it only > showed Album Artists. Before the update it showed All Artists both Album > Artist and Track artists which is what I want. >

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

2021-06-20 Thread garym
expectingtofly wrote: > It appears that your server can't access the internet at all. Which is > a bit odd and the source of all your problems. Did you wipe the SD card > and install picoreplayer from scratch? what do you see when you go to the piCorePlayer webGUI> main page, Diagnostics

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

2021-06-20 Thread garym
kidstypike wrote: > I don't think that's added as a repository, it's what populates the > plugins page. Seems to be unreachable? aha. That's why I don't see it as it's automatic (behind the scenes). *Home:* Pi4B-8GB/pCP7.x/4TB>LMS 8.1.x>Transporter, Touch, Boom, Radio (all ethernet)

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

2021-06-20 Thread garym
fmanchu wrote: > Many thanks to everybody who has come up with useful suggestions on > 'rebooting', 'restart' and more which I have now followed. I have even > re-downloaded piCorePlayer/LMS to my Raspberrypi - unfortunately still > with no success in solving the following 'warning' at the top

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

2021-06-19 Thread garym
garym wrote: > As far as I know, the reboot function does an orderly shutdown of LMS > first, but it would be great to have that confirmed. > edit: I keep my rPi plugged into a UPS (uninterrupted power supply), as > my location is prone to occasional power blips due to thunders

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

2021-06-19 Thread garym
Paul Webster wrote: > On the Main page in pCP there is a Reboot button. > > However, as it says somewhere on the pCP screens ... LMS has a database > that will probably work best if you perform an orderly shutdown of LMS > first. I don't remember if the pCP reboot function waits for LMS to

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] iPeng support thread

2021-06-16 Thread garym
Diana wrote: > Lowering the Spotty bit rate seems to have done the trick. The three > players (2xiPhone 6+ with iPeng and a PiCP) have streamed in sync for > about five hours. The sync has just now broken down, but was immediately > restored and continued when I restarted iPeng on the iPhones.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] iPeng support thread

2021-06-15 Thread garym
Diana wrote: > Ah, thanks very much for that. My problem seems to be specifically with > syncing iPeng and PiCorePlayer Squeezelite. Like you, I have no trouble > syncing iPeng players. (Sadly, all my SB players have died and gone to > SlimDevices Heaven!) > > Anyone else syncing pCP players

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] iPeng support thread

2021-06-15 Thread garym
Diana wrote: > Thanks for the quick reply. Just so I'm sure I've understood: you run > LMS on PiCorePlayer, and you stream to (among others) a PiCorePlayer > SqueezeLite and an iPeng Player, which sync with each other OK? > > If that's right, then my problem must lie elsewhere. > > Thanks

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] iPeng support thread

2021-06-15 Thread garym
I have no issues syncing my iPeng player with other players at home running LMS on rpi4 with PiCorePlayer. Diana wrote: > I'm posting this here first, as I know @pippin has experience with RPi > players/servers. > > I’ve been trying PiCorePlayer LMS on an RPi4 to stream to iPeng Players >

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] LmsUpdate and LmsRepack - Synology 8.0.* packages

2021-05-16 Thread garym
CarlHKingston wrote: > > New here, as in less than an hour and I looked around and I cannot > figure out how one sends a PM in here. > Ritalin might be wearing off? :p Click on the user's name to send PM. But I think you need to make 2 regular posts on the forum before you're allowed to make

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] PiCore on Vacation - setting up Wifi connections spontaneously

2021-05-15 Thread garym
kidstypike wrote: > OP suggested it's an "SBT clone" = RPi/screen? > > I agree it's all too much trouble, I gave all that up years ago, a big > SD card on your phone with loads of albums, a decent speaker (Bluetooth > or aux in), the phone can do all the radio stations, music services, no >

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] EXPERIMENTAL: "reliable" plugin for HTTP(S) streaming

2021-04-25 Thread garym
I'm getting this message at the top of my LMS > Settings > Plugins page. I have the repo entered at bottom of page. "Reliable" Ver. 0.18.1 does show as installed however. Running LMS 8.1.1, and rPi 7.0.1. Extensions that @mherger mentioned above (when I earlier had a similar issue) do show as

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 4.0 - integrate local library with your Spotify collection (LMS 8+)

2021-03-24 Thread garym
bayard1music wrote: > Hello, > > Thanks can you clarify what you mean in this context by 'free' are you > referring to the Plugin an an entity or a Spotify licence which my > family has? Sorry to dig further. > > Thanks again. "free" relates to the API used for calls by the Plugin. It has

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 4.0 - integrate local library with your Spotify collection (LMS 8+)

2021-03-18 Thread garym
Paul Webster wrote: > It generally is ... provided things around it do not change. Yep, I have a rPi3B+ running PiCorePlayer 4.0 and an older LMS, that I haven't updated for a few years, as it's in a place with no internet and I only use for playing my local music. It simply just works. One

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2021-03-10 Thread garym
The Groundsman wrote: > Trouble is - as the article points - out one persons Americana is > another persons Country. It's just a confused mess which is why I overhauled my files last year to reduce my genres from about 50 to about 8. (My 10 different country related genres are now just

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2021-03-10 Thread garym
mherger wrote: > >> What’s the protocol? Do you contact Michael to add to the Json > call? > > > > It's not me asking for this change. I'd also prefer if the > > online-service's genre could be in the player status message - perhaps > > the protocol could be extended to have an 'album' genre

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2021-02-27 Thread garym
browellm wrote: > I've been living in a metaphorical cave the last four years having > subscribed to Roon, so I wasn't aware of this skin. I have to say it's > really outstanding work and I can really see myself coming back to using > LMS as I've because rather disillusioned with the direction

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2021-02-25 Thread garym
kidstypike wrote: > Rescan button > > Apologies, I realize that Material skin is based on the Classic (not > Default) skin, and that the problem is probably to do with the Classic > skin, but I'm posting here as it may attract more response from the > knowledgeable users here. :) > > I have

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Archive.org

2021-02-19 Thread garym
streifenleopard wrote: > Hello, > is it possible somehow to make LMS fetch music from this source: > https://archive.org/details/album_recordings?and%5B%5D=%28NOT+access-restricted-item%3Atrue+%29==-week > Could there even be a plugin in theory or is this just out of the > question? years ago

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] iPeng support thread

2021-02-09 Thread garym
Struven wrote: > That problem sits between the backreast of my chair and my keyboard. > :D My truck mechanic dad used to say all the time that "it seems that the problem is a loose nut between the seat and the steering wheel." *Home:* Pi4B-8GB/pCP7.x/4TB>LMS 8.1.x>Transporter, Touch,

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Help with Spotify/Spotty on LMS 7.8.0

2021-02-06 Thread garym
d6jg wrote: > The post after mine > > Amend instructions from 7.9 to 8.2 accordingly - I recorded it here for > posterity > > https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?106668-Vortexbox-forums-amp-VB-Wiki-domains-dead=876513=1#post876513 Thanks! *Home:* VBA2.5 4TB -or-

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Help with Spotify/Spotty on LMS 7.8.0

2021-02-06 Thread garym
d6jg wrote: > For Vortexbox 2.4 onward your hardware has to be 64bit. If you are > successfully running VB2.4 or higher you can (manually) upgrade LMS > right up to the latest 8.2.x version but since the CD ripper no longer > works I would go for a Pi and if you want continue to use the VB as a

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] iPeng support thread

2021-02-05 Thread garym
jotap_66 wrote: > Í installed it some years ago. I am remembering... you are right, it is > for playing any song in the IPad/iPhone. > > I am sorry. I was wrong. > > JP no worries. :) *Home:* VBA2.5 4TB -or- rPi4B-8GB/pCP7.x/4TB>LMS 8.1.x>Transporter, Touch, Boom, Radio (all ethernet)

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] iPeng support thread

2021-02-05 Thread garym
jotap_66 wrote: > http://penguinlovesmusic.de/2012/08/14/ipeng-goes-audiophile/ Aha. Yes, I have the iPeng playback add-on. But this is for playing anything from LMS via iPeng, not just FLAC files. *Home:* VBA2.5 4TB -or- rPi4B-8GB/pCP7.x/4TB>LMS 8.1.x>Transporter, Touch, Boom, Radio (all

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] iPeng support thread

2021-02-05 Thread garym
jotap_66 wrote: > To play FLACs in iPhone/iPad you need a special plug-in for iPeng. If > not, you can not play Flacs in iPad/iphone > > JP Is it an ipeng app add-on, a separate app for iphone, or ??? From where is this installed. (odd that I'm able to stream flac files to my iphone

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] iPeng support thread

2021-02-05 Thread garym
jotap_66 wrote: > Hi again Pippin an d6jg: > > I tested the HiRes mode with a 24/96 track and it does not work. The > Dragonfly tells me 44.1. > > Am I doing something wrong?. I am using iPeng with the FLAC plug-in. Is > this correct? > > If I test the same track with the app Onkyo HF

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2021-01-26 Thread garym
PasTim wrote: > Surely it must save some energy, even if only a little? Like a lot of modern electronics, off is not really off. If one wants to for sure save power, it would need to be unplugged. *Home:* VBA2.5 4TB -or- rPi4B-8GB/pCP7.x/4TB>LMS 8.1.x>Transporter, Touch, Boom, Radio (all

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2021-01-25 Thread garym
The Groundsman wrote: > Yep I have the automatic plugins ticked. > > That downloads them but they are not activated until after the server > restart. I was expecting the same behaviour as in the default skin (as > described in my post) That way I can see which plug in has been updated > and

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2021-01-25 Thread garym
The Groundsman wrote: > I did have a quick look around for this but as it's such a monster > thread I couldn't seem to search it that efficiently - sorry :o > > On the default skin I get a message at the bottom to say if a new > version of LMS is available, and in Material I get a lime green

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Is the EXTRA WEB BROWSER still functional?

2021-01-14 Thread garym
Ikabob wrote: > It is using ipeng under the category MORE>EXTRAS>WEB BROWSER, IMAGE > BROWSER,SEARCH > > > Thanks that still works for me on ipeng, but I only get to extras>webbrowser. I don't see anything about image browser. *Home:* VBA2.5 4TB -or- rPi4B-8GB/pCP7.x/4TB>LMS

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 4.0 - integrate local library with your Spotify collection (LMS 8+)

2021-01-02 Thread garym
MikeatUpwey wrote: > Yes I think you and Michael are right. My apologies. However I'm really > finding it odd that my Marantz NA6006 is one of the approved devices for > Spotify Connect but doesn't support Ogg natively. So I'm struggling to > know how it's converting the stream. All I know is

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 4.0 - integrate local library with your Spotify collection (LMS 8+)

2021-01-02 Thread garym
MikeatUpwey wrote: > Same table but I think we are interpreting it differently. The free > column applies to all devices limited to128kbit\s AAC. The Premium > column gives the user quality options with the best quality at 256kbit/s > AAC at least that's the way I'm reading it. Spotify are

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 4.0 - integrate local library with your Spotify collection (LMS 8+)

2020-12-31 Thread garym
slartibartfast wrote: > I noticed recently that "Optimise prebuffering" is ticked in my Spotty > settings. I don't think I enabled this, in fact when I saw it I disabled > it but now it is back again. Is this the default setting in Spotty now? > > Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk not

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 4.0 - integrate local library with your Spotify collection (LMS 8+)

2020-12-13 Thread garym
phaul2001 wrote: > Hello, > > after the installation of LMS 8.0.1 and actualisation of all plugins, my > Spotify playlists are now listed in my playlist menu. > But I don't want them there. I was not able to remove them by using the > Online Integration plugin, delete the Spotty plugin, restart

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

2020-12-13 Thread garym
Your new vortexbox 2.5 install should default to LMS 8. If not, the VB update button will install LMS 8. *Home:* VBA2.5 4TB -or- rPi4B/pCP6.1/4TB>LMS 8.0.x>Transporter, Touch, Boom, Radio (all ethernet) *Cottage:* rPi4B/pCP6.1/4TB>LMS 8.0.x>Touch>Benchmark DAC I, Boom, Radio w/Battery (Radio

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

2020-12-13 Thread garym
Placebo effect strikes again. :cool: *Home:* VBA2.5 4TB -or- rPi4B/pCP6.1/4TB>LMS 8.0.x>Transporter, Touch, Boom, Radio (all ethernet) *Cottage:* rPi4B/pCP6.1/4TB>LMS 8.0.x>Touch>Benchmark DAC I, Boom, Radio w/Battery (Radio WIFI) *Office:* Win10(64)>foobar2000 *The Wild: *rPi3B+/pCP4.0,

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 4.0 - integrate local library with your Spotify collection (LMS 8+)

2020-12-11 Thread garym
Trostan wrote: > That doesn't work sadly. I set it to 0, restartet the server and then > the whole pc. > Tried again with 1500, but it keeps loading only 495 tracks. > > The settings still show the new values i set after restart tho I've always thought that the Spotty implementation had

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] EXPERIMENTAL: "reliable" plugin for HTTP(S) streaming

2020-11-27 Thread garym
Nevermind. Rebooted the rPi, and then everything was available, showed me Reliable 0.18.1 available, updated it, and all is good! *Home:* VBA2.5 4TB -or- rPi4B/pCP6.1/4TB>LMS 8.0.x>Transporter, Touch, Boom, Radio (all ethernet) *Cottage:* rPi4B/pCP6.1/4TB>LMS 8.0.x>Touch>Benchmark DAC I,

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] EXPERIMENTAL: "reliable" plugin for HTTP(S) streaming

2020-11-27 Thread garym
garym wrote: > How would I check? something from rPi webGUI or ???. I just installed > LMS 8.0.1 yesterday, and that's the first time I saw this message. (I've > never had to install extensions before and have been running > piCorePlayer 6.1 for quite a while) ok. found ex

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] EXPERIMENTAL: "reliable" plugin for HTTP(S) streaming

2020-11-27 Thread garym
mherger wrote: > > running LMS 8.0.1 on rPi (piCorePlayer 6.1), and I'm getting this > > message on plugins page. Is this a "reliable" issue or maybe a > > piCorePlayer issue? > > This sounds like a pCP issue. Can you check whether you have the > perl_crypt_openssl etc. extensions installed?

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] EXPERIMENTAL: "reliable" plugin for HTTP(S) streaming

2020-11-27 Thread garym
running LMS 8.0.1 on rPi (piCorePlayer 6.1), and I'm getting this message on plugins page. Is this a "reliable" issue or maybe a piCorePlayer issue? Bad repository http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/lms-reliable/dev/repo-sf.xml - Can't connect to https URL lack of IO::Socket::SSL:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] EXPERIMENTAL: "reliable" plugin for HTTP(S) streaming

2020-11-26 Thread garym
Just confirming I'm seeing the same thing. I'm running LMS 8.0.1. Reliable was installed. Also showing update available, but when I accept it and APPLY to restart, it doesn't restart and still shows as available. *Home:* VBA2.5 4TB -or- rPi4B/pCP6.1/4TB>LMS 8.0.0>Transporter, Touch, Boom,

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 4.0 - integrate local library with your Spotify collection (LMS 8+)

2020-11-19 Thread garym
mherger wrote: > > I've just moved to LMS 8.0 and for now I do not want to integrate > > Spotify tracks with my library (until I clean up Spotify selections). > > I've got the integrate setting turned to OFF in that location. But > I'm > > curious about what the "import" option (yes or no) in

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 4.0 - integrate local library with your Spotify collection (LMS 8+)

2020-11-19 Thread garym
I've just moved to LMS 8.0 and for now I do not want to integrate Spotify tracks with my library (until I clean up Spotify selections). I've got the integrate setting turned to OFF in that location. But I'm curious about what the "import" option (yes or no) in the Spotty plugin does? Is this

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] All playlist are empty in Spotty

2020-11-17 Thread garym
usahockey83 wrote: > I am also having said issue, updated to Spotty 4.4.2 and re-entered > credentials but no fix. Is 4.4.3 out? I'm not seeing it available on > my end. Running LMS 7.7.6. My technical knowledge is minimal so I > could be missing something obvious here. Thanks. Spotty

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] All playlist are empty in Spotty

2020-11-17 Thread garym
:cool: All good now on my end. Thanks! *Home:* VBA2.5 4TB -or- rPi4B/pCP6.1/4TB>LMS 7.9.3>Transporter, Touch, Boom, Radio (all ethernet) *Cottage:* rPi4B/pCP6.1/4TB>LMS 7.9.3>Touch>Benchmark DAC I, Boom, Radio w/Battery (ethernet except Radio WIFI) *Office:* Win10(64)>foobar2000 *The Wild:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] All playlist are empty in Spotty

2020-11-17 Thread garym
kidstypike wrote: > Gary > > See the post before yours! :) oops! But good to know. ;) *Home:* VBA2.5 4TB -or- rPi4B/pCP6.1/4TB>LMS 7.9.3>Transporter, Touch, Boom, Radio (all ethernet) *Cottage:* rPi4B/pCP6.1/4TB>LMS 7.9.3>Touch>Benchmark DAC I, Boom, Radio w/Battery (ethernet except

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] All playlist are empty in Spotty

2020-11-17 Thread garym
Also seeing this today. Running recent LMS 8.0 and latest Spotty plugin. I can see playlists, artists, albums, and play a selected album, but on any playlist I select (my own or Spotify lists), it returns EMPTY. (I don't have this issue using the Spotify official app, outside LMS) *Home:*

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2020-11-12 Thread garym
Grumpy Bob wrote: > Not only is Material a brilliant interface to LMS, but it just keeps on > getting better. > > Robert [image: https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcSpae157bj6R5BMNOJGzSUF71FTXCHy7e9jBw=CAU] *Home:* VBA2.5 4TB -or- rPi4B/pCP6.1/4TB>LMS 7.9.3>Transporter,

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] iPeng support thread

2020-11-10 Thread garym
Pablovi wrote: > Thanks! Well, I did the authentication a few minutes ago, so it should > be the new one. You're running the latest (since early today) LMS Ver. 8? In any case, this is not an iPeng problem, so if things still aren't working I'd post over at the thread I linked. Good luck.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] iPeng support thread

2020-11-10 Thread garym
Pablovi wrote: > I can’t play on any of my devices! Have no idea what’s going on, it just > doesn’t play anything on my iPhone, iPad or Squeeze player on Volumio. > > I can play my own library just fine everywhere, but not Tidal, at all. > > I don’t know how it’s done, I select Tidal from

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Tidal stutter using LMS

2020-11-03 Thread garym
Kevmil55 wrote: > I think that's done it. Although has this downgraded the quality of the > file I'm hearing in any way? > > Thanks a Million if not! > > Kev won't change quality. The file was always being converted to PCM to play, it is just now it is being converted to PCM at the server

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