Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Radio Now Playing plugin

2022-01-17 Thread ian_heys
RobbH wrote: > A very minor point, but for the record, there is no NPR flagship > station. Thanks for the clarification Rob, very interesting. *Music Store and VPN Server: *Synology DS215J NAS *Study Server:* LMS 8.2.0 on Pi 4B pCp 8.0.0/IQ Audio DAC+ *Refurbished 1962 RCA Stereo Console

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Radio Now Playing plugin

2022-01-17 Thread ian_heys
Man in a van wrote: > Hi Ian > > " All Things Considered " is, I think, available as a podcast :) > > Dusty and Lefty retired from the Range a few years ago, 'but there might > be archive material still available > ' (https://www.garrisonkeillor.com/) > ronnie Thanks Ronnie, I see from your

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Radio Now Playing plugin

2022-01-16 Thread ian_heys
Paul Webster wrote: > > That makes around 40 top-level station groups and over 350 stations now > in the plugin. > Time for a pause so I start looking again at providing data to "Radio > Favourites". > Thanks for all your efforts in this plugin. I use it daily and I'm listening to Cesky

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Radio Now Playing plugin

2021-11-24 Thread ian_heys
Paul Webster wrote: > Beta build 0.0.16b is now available to those on the experimental repo. > > - For Europa Jazz Radio - strip from the end of the title the optional > trailing record speed indicator (33RPM etc) > - Add experimental cover art search for stations that do not have any > ...

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Radio Now Playing plugin

2021-11-16 Thread ian_heys
Paul Webster wrote: > The only change so far is to add Jazz24 It gets better and better. *Music Store and VPN Server: *Synology DS215J NAS *Study Server:* LMS 8.2.0 on Pi 4B pCp 8.0.0/IQ Audio DAC+ *Refurbished 1962 RCA Stereo Console Server/Player *LMS 8.2.0 on Pi 4B pCp 8.0.0/IQ Audio

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Radio Now Playing plugin

2021-11-12 Thread ian_heys
Redrum wrote: > I really enjoy this plugin, > > Thank You +1,000,000! > > Jim *Music Store and VPN Server: *Synology DS215J NAS *Study Server:* LMS 8.2.0 on Pi 4B pCp 8.0.0/IQ Audio DAC+ *Refurbished 1962 RCA Stereo Console Server/Player *LMS 8.2.0 on Pi 4B pCp 8.0.0/IQ Audio DAC+ *LAN

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Radio Now Playing plugin

2021-11-09 Thread ian_heys
Not sure if this is relevant, but just in case :- Michael made a Swiss Radio information parser plugin quite a few years ago. - (Radio DRS Information Parser) It's still available. *Music Store and VPN Server: *Synology DS215J NAS *Study Server:* LMS 8.2.0 on Pi 4B pCp 8.0.0/IQ Audio DAC+

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Radio Now Playing plugin

2021-10-29 Thread ian_heys
EuropaRadioJazz now has new station icon. Think I saw it yesterday but it didn't register. Keep up the good work. *Music Store and VPN Server: *Synology DS215J NAS *Study Server:* LMS 8.2.0 on Pi 4B pCp 8.0.0/IQ Audio DAC+ *Refurbished 1962 RCA Stereo Console Server/Player *LMS 8.2.0 on Pi 4B

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Radio Now Playing plugin

2021-10-25 Thread ian_heys
I've been listening on Cro Jazz, Caroline and Juke Radio this morning and noticed that the Playlist Pane on the LMS Browser now updates in sync with the Now Playing Pane. Did someone do something or did I miss the announcement? *Music Store and VPN Server: *Synology DS215J NAS *Study Server:*

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Radio Now Playing plugin

2021-10-13 Thread ian_heys
Paul Webster wrote: > Try 0.0.9b ... now with Europa Radio Jazz > > I have had it playing while testing and I suspect someone there is going > on a trip soon or their randomiser is a bit broken > 13/10/2021 12.16 - Take "A" Train - Henghel Gualdi Orchestra > 13/10/2021 11.17 - Take The " A "

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Radio Now Playing plugin

2021-10-13 Thread ian_heys
Paul the App is working fine now. Quick start with all Radio stations and no slow down of the settings page. I think it might have been a DNS issue. I have a static IP on pCp with 8.8.8.8 selected as my primary DNS source. *Music Store and VPN Server: *Synology DS215J NAS *Study Server:*

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Radio Now Playing plugin

2021-10-13 Thread ian_heys
I have Putty and ran TOP but couldn't see any unusual CPU usage when loading the plugin. It's working fine now. Albeit with only two stations enabled. Will carry on as is and see if anybody else reports a problem. Thanks for this great plugin, will definitely be including Europa Radio Jazz if

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Radio Now Playing plugin

2021-10-13 Thread ian_heys
Paul Webster wrote: > I have had a look at this one and I think I can do something with it. > > They do not have cover art available. > I'm happy without the cover art. The music is great. *Music Store and VPN Server: *Synology DS215J NAS *Study Server:* LMS 8.2.0 on Pi 4B pCp 8.0.0/IQ

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Radio Now Playing plugin

2021-10-13 Thread ian_heys
Paul Webster wrote: > Let's see if others report the same thing. I've moved the cache onto a USB Samsung SSD connected to one of the Pi's USB3 ports. It's very fast for scanning and general LMS running. Wondered whether the plugin might be using a single core of the processor. *Music Store

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Radio Now Playing plugin

2021-10-13 Thread ian_heys
Paul, I've managed to install latest beta but it initially slowed down my LMS to a crawl. Opening the Radio Now Playing App took 15 seconds to display the stations, and most times didn't work at all. Similar problem getting to Settings/Plugins. Discovered that the delay is greatly reduced

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Radio Now Playing plugin

2021-10-12 Thread ian_heys
Paul I had found the old PM and loaded the repo address, but that failed to find any plugins. This morning I have uninstalled LMS from pCp and reinstalled. I have the same problem again. I only have three other plugins and they all re-installed perfectly and rescanning my music library is

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Radio Now Playing plugin

2021-10-12 Thread ian_heys
Paul Webster wrote: > Please try the same hack > Comment out > /usr/local/slimserver/Cache/InstalledPlugins/Plugins/RadioNowPlaying/Plugin.pm > line 42 - by putting a # at the start of the line I would if I could, but the plugin isn't there. Installing again fails to place it there. *Music

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Radio Now Playing plugin

2021-10-12 Thread ian_heys
sota748 wrote: > Same here. This is my log, it looks similar. -Can't locate HTML/Tagset.pm in @INC (you may need to install the HTML::Tagset module) (@INC contains: /usr/local/slimserver/Cache/InstalledPlugins /usr/local/slimserver/Cache /usr/local/slimserver/Cache/InstalledPlugins

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Radio Now Playing plugin

2021-10-11 Thread ian_heys
I can't get the plugin to load from the 3rd Party Plugins repo for the last 24 hours. I have two running LMS servers on Picoreplayer and both repeatedly return "Plugin Failed To Load" when trying to load the plugin. I'm also not getting New Plugin notifications for this plugin although a Plugin

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

2020-12-28 Thread ian_heys
bpa wrote: > I started using SB about 15 years ago wanting to listen to some Radio 4 > programmes in Ireland - the only medium was LW with lots of hiss. > Even poor quality audio was better than none at all. So 48kbs RealAudio > on internet was a revelation. > > If you're happy with BBC

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

2020-12-11 Thread ian_heys
expectingtofly wrote: > I'm sure you will be able to listen to it through BBC Sounds plugin by > one of two ways : > > > - The Station List in BBC Sounds is completely dynamic, so you might > find it just appears. If not, as long as the BBC's API provides a > way of showing them, I'm

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

2020-12-10 Thread ian_heys
expectingtofly wrote: > Correct, it has no connection with the BBC Iplayer plugin. But it is > good to have choice. > > > > Yes, it chooses the highest bitrate available. Which is usually 320kbps > in the UK and 96kbps outside the uk. In the summer I use BBCIplayer to listen to the Live

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2020-12-05 Thread ian_heys
cpd73 wrote: > The change logs posted here do not usually contain all changes, just the > main changes. Hence this dot to dash change was not listed. I'm morsetified. *Music Store and VPN Server: *Synology DS215J NAS* Study Player:* Pi 3B pCp 6.1.0/IQ Audio DAC+ *Study Server:* Pi 4 pcp

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2020-12-05 Thread ian_heys
cpd73 wrote: > Feature release, main changes: > Thanks for the update Craig. Not sure you included the one you did for me in the list. But it worked. Two images showing browser tab in material and normal browser playing flac radio stream having recovered metadata from browser tab. Sorry

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2020-11-30 Thread ian_heys
cpd73 wrote: > Done for 2.1.0 Thanks.:) I'll check it out as soon as the next update comes. *Music Store and VPN Server: *Synology DS215J NAS* Study Player:* Pi 3B pCp 6.1.0/IQ Audio DAC+ *Study Server:* Pi 4 pcp 7.0.0 (beta) *Refurbished 1962 RCA Stereo Console Player *LMS 7,9.3 on Pi 4B

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2020-11-29 Thread ian_heys
Could I ask a small favour? Could the browser tab title format be changed to Title - Artist::Logitech Media Server instead of Title ยท Artist:Logitech Media Server. (note the proposed hyphen between Title and Artist). I'm setting up a small personal radio station and picking up the metadata from

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: UPnPBridge = integrate UPnP/DLNA players with LMS (squeeze2upnp)

2020-11-02 Thread ian_heys
philippe_44 wrote: > Might be an issue with the build - I've rebuilt everything. Please > remove and re-install the plugin I've been experiencing similar problems over the weekend on my Synology NAS which I have only recently started using again. Re-installed today and installed version

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: PlayHLS Plugin - plugin to play Apple HLS m3u8 stream

2020-07-06 Thread ian_heys
Thanks bpa. Problem started for me when I installed PlayHLS to support the new version of the Radio France plugin a couple of weeks ago so I knew what the issue was and just waited for your fix. *Music Store & VPN Server: *Synology DS215J NAS* Home Server/Study Player:* LMS 8.0.0 on Pi 4 pCp

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: PlayHLS Plugin - plugin to play Apple HLS m3u8 stream

2020-07-06 Thread ian_heys
bpa wrote: > PlayHLS V2.8 - Fix for empty m3u playlist after rescan I've been following this as the problem arose for me a couple of weeks ago. Glad to say it fixed the issue for me on two piCore Player 6.1.0/Pi 4B servers - thanks bpa. Might be worth mentioning that I had to re-scan on both

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

2020-06-22 Thread ian_heys
Checked after I posted and update was available - looks good. Will report if I find anything amiss but not expecting to. Thanks again. *Music Store & VPN Server: *Synology DS215J NAS* Home Server/Study Player:* LMS 8.0.0 on Pi 4 pCp 6.1.0 Server/IQ Audio DAC+ *Refurbished 1962 RCA Stereo

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

2020-06-22 Thread ian_heys
Update's taking a while to come through Paul. Will report when it does. I've uninstalled the experimental plugin and gone back to standard repo but no sign of the update yet. *Music Store & VPN Server: *Synology DS215J NAS* Home Server/Study Player:* LMS 8.0.0 on Pi 4 pCp 6.1.0 Server/IQ

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

2020-06-20 Thread ian_heys
Paul Webster wrote: > > > I have also modified the settings so that you can turn off this entire > facility - I.e. remove it from the menus. > So if you cannot fine it under Radio or My Apps then change the plugin > settings and restart LMS. > > I'm not sure what this is. I don't see

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

2020-06-20 Thread ian_heys
Paul Webster wrote: > > You could try those again just to confirm. > I tested them both and they are exactly as you say. Haven't updated yet will do that now. *Music Store & VPN Server: *Synology DS215J NAS* Home Server/Study Player:* LMS 8.0.0 on Pi 4 pCp 6.1.0 Server/IQ Audio DAC+

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

2020-06-19 Thread ian_heys
Paul Webster wrote: > Try this temporary repo to get a pre-release of 0.1.33 with addition of > menu for station stream selection > > http://www.dabdig.co.uk/slimserver-rep/repo-radiofrance.xml > > Would be good if someone else tries it before I make an official > release. > > There is an

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

2020-06-19 Thread ian_heys
Thanks Paul *Music Store & VPN Server: *Synology DS215J NAS* Home Server/Study Player:* LMS 8.0.0 on Pi 4 pCp 6.1.0 Server/IQ Audio DAC+ *Refurbished 1962 RCA Stereo Console Server/Player *LMS 8.0.0 on Pi 4B pCp 6.1.0 Server/IQ Audio DAC+ *Headphone Players: x2:* pCp 6.0.0 on Pi 3B /IQ Audio

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

2020-06-19 Thread ian_heys
Paul Webster wrote: > 0.1.32 17-Jun-2020 > Add FIP Pop > > > Radio France added FIP Pop today. > > Note - this station is not in TuneIn yet (and not yet in the Radio > France mobile phone apps) > So to play it you will need to use a direct stream URL - like this ... > but it needs PlayHLS

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Chromecast, UPnP and AirPlay bridges updates

2020-05-31 Thread ian_heys
philippe_44 wrote: > For UPnP bridge, if you want to try oggopus and oggflac, it's likely > that your player will not report the proper mimetypes, so you'll have to > add them to "Additional MimeTypes" - see documentation My GGMM E5 plays this OggFlac stream without any changes to the mime

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: UPnPBridge = integrate UPnP/DLNA players with LMS (squeeze2upnp)

2020-03-14 Thread ian_heys
PasTim wrote: > So I haven't quite hit peak dementia yet! Thanks. :) I'm certainly not qualified to answer that, but we could probably compare symptoms. *Music Store & VPN Server: *Synology DS215J NAS* Home Server/Study Player:* LMS 8.0.0 on Pi 4 pCp 6.0.0 Server/IQ Audio DAC+

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: UPnPBridge = integrate UPnP/DLNA players with LMS (squeeze2upnp)

2020-03-14 Thread ian_heys
PasTim wrote: > I have discovered that the HTTP mode box behaves normally in > chromium-based browser (at least in Chrome and Brave), but not in > Firefox. I'm running ubuntu 19.04, Firefox 74.0 (64-bit). This is true > on 2 different PCs with different screen sizes. I can confirm that. My

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: UPnPBridge = integrate UPnP/DLNA players with LMS (squeeze2upnp)

2020-03-10 Thread ian_heys
PasTim wrote: > Has anyone else seen this? Mine are all complete. Version 1.26.0 on LMS 8.0.0. *Music Store & VPN Server: *Synology DS215J NAS* Home Server/Study Player:* LMS 8.0.0 on Pi 4 pCp 6.0.0 Server/IQ Audio DAC+ *Refurbished 1962 RCA Stereo Console Server/Player *LMS 8.0.0 on Pi 4B

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

2020-02-21 Thread ian_heys
Just had an email to advise that my hi-res streaming plan has been reduced in price. Further investigation seems to indicate that they have dropped the basic plan too. *Music Store & VPN Server: *Synology DS215J NAS* Home Server/Study Player:* LMS 8.0.0 on Pi 4 pCp 6.0 (beta) Server/IQ Audio

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2020-02-19 Thread ian_heys
cpd73 wrote: > You should thank d6jg - he found the icon. > > > > Text here comes from LMS. Thanks d6jg. I think I mislead everyone. View Tags works fine on local library, doesn't work when playing a Qobuz track. Don't suppose it should really. *Music Store & VPN Server: *Synology

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2020-02-18 Thread ian_heys
cpd73 wrote: > Bug-fix release, main changes: > > > > - Fix silly typo that broke some actions. > > > > Thanks for the new Qobuz collection icon, very nice. I think you may have missed the typo that selects the "View Tags" page on the "More Information" page in the left hand pane.

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

2020-02-17 Thread ian_heys
mherger wrote: > Did you run a rescan? Oops: :mad: Sorry Michael working fine now. Thanks as always. *Music Store & VPN Server: *Synology DS215J NAS* Home Server/Study Player:* LMS 8.0.0 on Pi 4 pCp 6.0 (beta) Server/IQ Audio DAC+ *Refurbished 1962 RCA Stereo Console Server/Player *LMS

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

2020-02-17 Thread ian_heys
Sorry to say that 1.908 still the same. *Music Store & VPN Server: *Synology DS215J NAS* Home Server/Study Player:* LMS 8.0.0 on Pi 4 pCp 6.0 (beta) Server/IQ Audio DAC+ *Refurbished 1962 RCA Stereo Console Server/Player *LMS 8.0.0 on Pi 4B pCp 6.0 (beta) Server/IQ Audio DAC+ *RF Headphone

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

2020-02-17 Thread ian_heys
mherger wrote: > > Updated the plugin and re-imported entire library on both my LMS > servers > > and the result is the same. > > Thanks - there was more to it. 1.908 is my next attempt. I finally got a > > Qobuz subscription to actually test this :-D. > > -- > > Michael Well done for

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

2020-02-17 Thread ian_heys
mherger wrote: > > > Could you please give 1.907 another try? You'll need to re-import Qobuz > data. > > -- > > Michael Updated the plugin and re-imported entire library on both my LMS servers and the result is the same. In LMS Qobuz/My Playlists the playlist plays as flac. In LMS My

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

2020-02-16 Thread ian_heys
I think I figured this out. I think it's an LMS 8.0.0 feature/Issue? In LMS, if I play the playlist from the Qobuz App, it plays as flac. If I play the playlist from the LMS Playlist Menu it plays as mp3. I got confused when the playlist appeared in my LMS Playlist menu and didn't notice it

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

2020-02-16 Thread ian_heys
ian_heys wrote: > Yes, other Qobuz content plays as flac in LMS. I think this is a problem with the way I saved the plugin. Sorry for bothering you Michael. I think I must have created the playlist with mp3 flag set and hadn't noticed before. My apologies. *Music Store & VPN

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

2020-02-16 Thread ian_heys
mherger wrote: > >> Other content from Qobuz would play as FLAC? > > > > Yes that's right. Picture of bottom right of Windows App playing same > > playlist attached. > > No, I mean in LMS, not in the Qobuz application. > > -- > > Michael Yes, other Qobuz content plays as flac in LMS.

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

2020-02-16 Thread ian_heys
mherger wrote: > > Other content from Qobuz would play as FLAC? > > -- > > Michael Yes that's right. Picture of bottom right of Windows App playing same playlist attached. +---+ |Filename: Qobuz Now Playing.JPG

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

2020-02-16 Thread ian_heys
Hi Michael I'm not a big user of playlists but I notice that I can only play playlists at mp3 quality. The windows app gives a choice of playback qualities but I can't find this on the Qobuz plugin. Not a big deal to me, just asking. *Music Store & VPN Server: *Synology DS215J NAS* Home

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2020-02-10 Thread ian_heys
cpd73 wrote: > Depends on where you've installed it. I installed it to Cache/Plugins which is the folder indicated for local plugins on the LMS settings page, but I had to create the Plugins folder at that level. However it did work. Thanks for the reply I'll keep an eye out for update.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2020-02-10 Thread ian_heys
Hi thanks for this great plugin I've just installed 1.4 using the manual plugin installation process. Must be ten years or more since I last used it. Will it auto update or will I have to repeat the process every time there's an update? *Music Store & VPN Server: *Synology DS215J NAS* Home

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] DSD player and LMS 8.0.0

2020-02-02 Thread ian_heys
schoeppi wrote: > Unfortunatly the DSD player plugin is not compartible with LMS 8.0.0. > Because the plugin is from Triode I wonder if and how this could be > fixed. IMHO the plugin should also work with the 8.0.0 version of LMS. > > Ciao, > > Schoepp I've edited my plugin install.xml

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

2020-01-26 Thread ian_heys
bpa wrote: > I think your memory is short.. > > There is no indication that BBC will stop live internet streams. Memory gets shorter by the day for me. BBC stopping the live streams was my concern but I also saw a chance to learn about a pi-Codec (IQ Audio pi-Codec) which together

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

2020-01-25 Thread ian_heys
slartibartfast wrote: > It never ceases to amaze me how you and other plugin developers keep on > top of all the changes the BBC and others inflict on us. It is much > appreciated. > > Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk +1 The direction this thread was taking caused me to consider what I

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

2019-09-18 Thread ian_heys
Julf wrote: > Too bad they use a closed, proprietary API, and also use erroneous and > misleading advertising pics (borrowed from Sony). > > 28220 I gave it a (free) try this morning. I was a little bit confused initially by the term HD Music, which is Amazon's definition of CD Quality 16

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

2019-09-16 Thread ian_heys
Owen Smith wrote: > Well overdue in this case. Red Button was overtaken many years ago by > the web, and never worked very well anyway. > > My dad used Teletext a lot to look things up and it worked well for him. > He never took to Red Button the same way, he claimed it didn't have what > he

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

2019-05-24 Thread ian_heys
Raymond Woodward wrote: > The World Cup Cricket warm up game Pakistan v Afghanistan is available > on Live Event 1 *within* the UK. > > It is *NOT* available outside of the UK. I presume this service is little used as it isn't advertised anywhere. However I do use it regularly and am

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

2018-12-30 Thread ian_heys
bpa wrote: > > In the summer they are very popular with cricket listeners and there is > a tweet feed which highlights the event stream. Thanks as always for your continued support of this great plugin. The twitter feed that you mention, where listeners post the number of the commentary of

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

2018-11-08 Thread ian_heys
PasTim wrote: > I have no desire for the Beeb, or anyone else, to 'personalise' my > listening. In fact I have a definite desire for them not to do so. > > These plugins do all that I need and want. *Music Store & VPN Server: *Synology DS215J NAS* Home Server/Player:* LMS 7.9.2 on Pi 3B

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBC iPlayer "Listen Live" Not Working?

2018-09-13 Thread ian_heys
I noticed this article yesterday: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-45499784 There is a slightly worrying use of the term compression towards the end of the article. The same effect is apparent on BBC iPlayer Radio Live Streams when the time signal pips are heard about 35 - 40 seconds

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: UPnPBridge = integrate UPnP/DLNA players with LMS (squeeze2upnp)

2018-08-15 Thread ian_heys
PasTim wrote: > Forgive some of us who use the plugin as it was because it works that > way :) I've been perfectly happy with the plugin for a long time. But I'm afraid I'm not a connoiseur of gapless and don't even know if I have any gapless music in my collection, although I supsect there

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: UPnPBridge = integrate UPnP/DLNA players with LMS (squeeze2upnp)

2018-07-29 Thread ian_heys
Can't get the update to version 1.0.0.3 to work, LMS offers an update but fails to install. Has been the same for 24 hours. Sam update works fine for the Chromecast Bridge. *Music Store & VPN Server: *Synology DS215J NAS* Home Server/Player:* LMS 7.9.2 on Pi 3B piCorePlayer v3.50

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: UPnPBridge = integrate UPnP/DLNA players with LMS (squeeze2upnp)

2018-07-25 Thread ian_heys
philippe_44 wrote: > Thanks Ian, this is super useful. Can you also tell me in what mode you > did the test? (thru, pcm or flac and w/ or w/o flow activated) > > Thanks Hadn't noticed the information bubble first time round: All testing was done with "Thru" default GGMM E5 with aac/flac

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: UPnPBridge = integrate UPnP/DLNA players with LMS (squeeze2upnp)

2018-07-25 Thread ian_heys
All working now. I had disabled aac/flac in filetypes sometime in the past. 25359 +---+ |Filename: Results 2.JPG| |Download:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: UPnPBridge = integrate UPnP/DLNA players with LMS (squeeze2upnp)

2018-07-25 Thread ian_heys
I've followed the chromecast and upnp bridge threads since the early testing days. I now have eight devices in my home which are identified by these two plugins, five of which I actively use in my listening. Since my SB3 days in 2005 my home network has evolved to being NAS Music Store/PiCore

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: UPnPBridge = integrate UPnP/DLNA players with LMS (squeeze2upnp)

2018-03-10 Thread ian_heys
Update after upgrade to latest version. GGMM E5 works every time. GGMM M3 doesn't work at all - just like it didn't in previous version. (I have not been happy with this device. As well as impossible UPNP it is far too bassy). Revo SuperConnect - works on FLAC music but not on DASH/AAC streams

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: CastBridge = integrate Chromecast players with LMS (squeeze2cast)

2018-03-10 Thread ian_heys
Both Chromecast Audio and Video working fine for me with FLAC Music and DASH/AAC live streams on new version. Thanks Phillipe. Will now give the UPNP version a try and report back. *Music Store: *Synology DS215J NAS* Home Server/Player:* LMS 7.9.1 on Pi 3B piCorePlayer v3.22 Server/IQAudio

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: CastBridge = integrate Chromecast players with LMS (squeeze2cast)

2018-03-09 Thread ian_heys
philippe_44 wrote: > did you enable aac codec with the previous version? Yes. Both audio and video chromecasts previously worked for flac and DASH/AAC. My usage of Chromecasts has declined over time. I have one connected to a TV that has optical output to a sound system and and audio cc

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: UPnPBridge = integrate UPnP/DLNA players with LMS (squeeze2upnp)

2018-03-09 Thread ian_heys
Hi Philippe, I've tried the new version on three devices with FLAC music files and bpa's BBCiPlayer latest experimental version with live programme streams: GGMM E5 and M3 - no problems. On the previous version I could not get the GGMM M3 to work as UPNP device under any circumstances but the

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: CastBridge = integrate Chromecast players with LMS (squeeze2cast)

2018-03-09 Thread ian_heys
Hi Philippe I've tried the new version on both a Chromecast Audio and a Chromecast Video. I have a very simple system in that I only have FLAC files mainly at 44.1khz/16bit and I use bpa's latest experimental BBC iPlayer for live Radio at 320 kBps DASH/AAC. Both Chromecasts work fine on FLAC

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: UPnPBridge = integrate UPnP/DLNA players with LMS (squeeze2upnp)

2018-03-09 Thread ian_heys
Are there any repos for these new versions Philippe. I have some free time over the coming days. *Music Store: *Synology DS215J NAS* Home Server/Player:* LMS 7.9.1 on Pi 3B piCorePlayer v3.22 Server/IQAudio DAC+/Amp+ *Portable Server/Player:* LMS 7.9.1 on HP-DV2700 Laptop/Ubuntu 17.10 with

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: AirPlay Bridge = integrate AirPlay devices with LMS (squeeze2raop)

2017-12-15 Thread ian_heys
I had a spare Chromecast Video to hand and decided to use that as an HDMI input to the TV and the GGMM3 as TV Speakers together with your Chromecast plugin of course. This solution working for me fine and without any additional expenditure. Thanks *Music Store: *Synology DS215J NAS* Home

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: AirPlay Bridge = integrate AirPlay devices with LMS (squeeze2raop)

2017-12-14 Thread ian_heys
Thanks for the offer Phillipe. I've abandoned trying to get the M3 working with Airplay and will buy another Raspberry Pi to connect to the TV with PiCore/Jivelite and then continue to use the M3 as a TV speaker with selectable HDMI inputs. This works fine on my other TV. I've reverted the E5

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: AirPlay Bridge = integrate AirPlay devices with LMS (squeeze2raop)

2017-12-14 Thread ian_heys
philippe_44 wrote: > The only thing you need to do for the G5 and likley M3 is to enable > encryption (as with every non Apple-official device). You can (and > should) leave volume settings untouched Thanks Philippe, that worked instantaneously with the E5, but didn't work with the M3 which is

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: AirPlay Bridge = integrate AirPlay devices with LMS (squeeze2raop)

2017-12-13 Thread ian_heys
Phillipe, I not from your signature that you have a GGMM E5. I use mine in UPNP Bridge mode and it is very good but I wonder if you have an airplay profile that you could share as I am having a great deal of trouble setting up a GGMM M3 in either UPNP or Airplay mode and if I could try your E5

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: UPnPBridge = integrate UPnP/DLNA players with LMS (squeeze2upnp)

2017-12-12 Thread ian_heys
Philippe can you add a couple of profiles to your plugin please. First is a replacement for the two Revo profiles that exist in the plugin and have been there since the very early days: Revo SuperConnect Radio Bedroom Revo Radio uuid:3DCC7100-F76C-11DD-87AF-002261B684D8 bb:bb:61:b6:84:d8 1 1 0

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

2017-10-29 Thread ian_heys
Excellent - thanks for the plugin. *Music Store: *Synology DS215J NAS* Home Server/Player:* LMS 7.9.1 on Pi 3B piCorePlayer v3.22 Server/IQAudio DAC+/Amp+ *Portable Server/Player:* LMS 7.9.1 on HP-DV2700 Laptop/Ubuntu 17.10 with synced music drive. *Homeplug LAN Players: *Pi 3B piCorePlayer

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

2017-08-25 Thread ian_heys
bpa wrote: > > or > http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/bpaplugins/V154etestrelease-repo.xml > Is the letter after V154 a typo - it's f in my browser? LMS: 7.9.0 - 1488878280 @ Tue Mar 7 09:28:02 UTC 2017 on Raspberry Pi 3B piCorePlayer v3.20 Server/IQAudio DAC+/Amp+/ Synology DS216J

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

2017-08-25 Thread ian_heys
bpa wrote: > No, it is a replacement for the ones which currently supply 1.5.4.4 > > http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/bpaplugins/V154testrelease-repo.xml > or > http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/bpaplugins/V154etestrelease-repo.xml > > THis means you can go back to 1.5.4.4 if

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: UPnPBridge = integrate UPnP/DLNA players with LMS (squeeze2upnp)

2017-07-28 Thread ian_heys
johnieutah wrote: > Slightly off topic... but I've looked at quite a few reviews of the GGMM > kit and it looks pretty decent. I would be very interested to hear > owners opinions of how these devices work as Squeezebox instances > through the squeeze2upnp plugin. :) I've had the GGMM E5 for a

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

2017-07-15 Thread ian_heys
Owen Smith wrote: > I gave feedback. LMS: 7.9.0 - 1488878280 @ Tue Mar 7 09:28:02 UTC 2017 on Raspberry Pi 3B piCorePlayer v3.20 Server/IQAudio DAC+/Amp+/ Synology DS216J Network Music Store *Homeplug LAN Players:* Squeezelite on Windows 10 PC Raspberry Pi 3B piCorePlayer v3.20/Topping VX2

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: UPnPBridge = integrate UPnP/DLNA players with LMS (squeeze2upnp)

2017-07-14 Thread ian_heys
philippe_44 wrote: > BTW, the GGMM-E5 is now supported in AirPlay mode, so you can have > synchronization with other LMS players Thanks for that Phillipe. Not sure I need it yet. Still trying to figure out how to use the Alexa mode and how to move from one wifi router to another. Apparently

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: UPnPBridge = integrate UPnP/DLNA players with LMS (squeeze2upnp)

2017-07-14 Thread ian_heys
ian_heys wrote: > I've emailed support, in Germany. I'll post here if I get any meaningful > reply. I got a quick reply from their support which confirmed that the internal Wifi hotspot cannot be turned off only "hided" sic. Not certain but this may be analogous to how Chromeca

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: UPnPBridge = integrate UPnP/DLNA players with LMS (squeeze2upnp)

2017-07-13 Thread ian_heys
castalla wrote: > ... or more importantly, how to switch it off! I see what you mean hotspot shows up on my phone any time the device is on in the Wifi mode and I can't see a means of turning it off. Your signature doesn't indicate that you have one of these. Do you have a GGMM device? I've

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: UPnPBridge = integrate UPnP/DLNA players with LMS (squeeze2upnp)

2017-07-13 Thread ian_heys
castalla wrote: > Does it set up another wireless access point like the GGMM-E3 does? Had to get the book out. I've only had it an hour! Apparently it does, but I haven't tried it yet. LMS: 7.9.0 - 1488878280 @ Tue Mar 7 09:28:02 UTC 2017 on Raspberry Pi 3B piCorePlayer v3.20 Server/IQAudio

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: UPnPBridge = integrate UPnP/DLNA players with LMS (squeeze2upnp)

2017-07-13 Thread ian_heys
I've thought a lot about how to listen, without earphones, to my LMS in the garden (US yard). Thoughts of using a quality speaker box together with a chromecast audio or raspberry pi have usually foundered on the need for a portable power supply that supports Amplifier Voltage (usually around

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

2017-07-01 Thread ian_heys
bpa wrote: > Attached is a replacement for iPlayer.pm in 1.5.4.4. It has not been > extensively tested. Working for me too. Thanks as usual. LMS: 7.9.0 - 1488878280 @ Tue Mar 7 09:28:02 UTC 2017 on Raspberry Pi 3B piCorePlayer v3.20 Server/IQAudio DAC+/Amp+/ Synology DS216J Network Music

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

2017-06-21 Thread ian_heys
You're right, can't recreate it now. As for Dandelion Radio: I haven't heard Surface Noise/Wow/Flutter and Scratches for ages. It did show the album covers while I listened to it. LMS: 7.9.0 - 1488878280 @ Tue Mar 7 09:28:02 UTC 2017 on Raspberry Pi 3B piCorePlayer v3.20 Server/IQAudio

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

2017-06-21 Thread ian_heys
I think the Artist/Track info was there before but the cover art appeared after installing the plugin (and disappears if I uninstall it). LMS: 7.9.0 - 1488878280 @ Tue Mar 7 09:28:02 UTC 2017 on Raspberry Pi 3B piCorePlayer v3.20 Server/ARCAM rPAC DAC, 2.5 inch HD (pi powered) *Homeplug LAN

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

2017-06-21 Thread ian_heys
Installed today - working fine. Thanks Surprised to find it worked on Absolute Radio 60's too. 22932 Is there a means of knowing which stations it will work on, and which it won't? +---+ |Filename: absolute.JPG

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Local Player plugin and Squeezelite for Linux/Windows/OSX

2017-05-23 Thread ian_heys
Thanks all for your suggestions. I will no doubt try them out in due course and report back here. For the moment I would like to enjoy the stability I have at the moment. Changing to a NAS has been a steep learning curve for me over the last four days. Somewhat brought on by last weeks global

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Local Player plugin and Squeezelite for Linux/Windows/OSX

2017-05-23 Thread ian_heys
I think I'm getting somewhere. Squeezelite tries to start when I name your static binary armv5te and try to start it. But I get this in the log: Starting Squeezelite: /volume1/@appstore/LmsRepack/Cache/InstalledPlugins/Plugins/LocalPlayer/Bin/squeezelite-armv5te -d all=debug -f

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Synology 7.9.1 packages

2017-05-23 Thread ian_heys
pinkdot wrote: > Just remove the port from the firewall settings. If it's not there, > reboot the nas. That did it. Had to reboot, there was nothing showing in the firewall. Thanks LMS: 7.9.0 - 1488878280 @ Tue Mar 7 09:28:02 UTC 2017 on Raspberry Pi 3B piCorePlayer v3.20 Server/ARCAM rPAC

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Synology 7.9.1 packages

2017-05-22 Thread ian_heys
Hi I've been trying to resolve my Local Player issue with new binaries provided by Ralphy. Everything I tried failed so as a last resort I tried uninstalling and re-installing LMS Repack. The problem is the package won't re-install as I get this message: Port 9009 configured for this package

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Local Player plugin and Squeezelite for Linux/Windows/OSX

2017-05-22 Thread ian_heys
ralphy wrote: > I've uploaded 'squeezelite-1.8.6-958-armel.tar.gz' > (https://sourceforge.net/projects/lmsclients/files/squeezelite/linux/squeezelite-1.8.6-958-armel.tar.gz/download) > to my sourceforge lms clients project which includes a static armel > squeezelite binary. You'll likely need

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: CastBridge = integrate Chromecast players with LMS (squeeze2cast)

2017-05-22 Thread ian_heys
Thorden wrote: > > > Any suggestions highly appreciated, thank you! Are you running the LMS Re-pack by PinkDot? I have installed LMS RePack on my Synology DS215j in the last few days and Chromecast and UPNP plugins run with armv5te-static binaries, although my device is supposed to be an

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Local Player plugin and Squeezelite for Linux/Windows/OSX

2017-05-22 Thread ian_heys
Hi Ralphy I've just installed LMS (Repack) on my Synology DiskStation 215j I believe it uses the ARMV7 architecture. I also moved my music files onto the Diskstation. I only use the following plugins. 22749 I can start and use the Chromecast and UPNP Bridges using the "armv5te-static"

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