RCST wrote:
> The format should be http://192.168.X.X:9000/jsonrpc.js
Ah, the all-important colon! Thanks so much, and now working. Brilliant
piece of work.
I wonder, RCST, if it's worth a new thread, given that this one is still
headed with "...Android apps"? I'm sure a lot of ios/ipados
slartibartfast wrote:
> It works for me.
>
> Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk
Slarti (may I call you that?), did you get it to work with the format I
talked about in post 151 above?
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galgofa wrote:
> Can you please help me to download latest version? The link above not
> accessible for me.
I had the same problem at first, because I copied and pasted the link.
If you did that, try clicking on it in the actual forum post: that
worked for me. I think the copy and paste just
RCST wrote:
> Finally found a simulator to test the shortcut import process and fully
> understood what you meant! Sorry for the confusion and this shortcut
> function is still new to me. Now it should be fixed, please download it
> again via this new link:
>
Paul Webster wrote:
> You should see stuff on JazzRadio.fr
>
> [image:
> https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20221120/e1fda7a138eb1777fdd2668edf6b5a4f.jpg]
>
> Try a few different ones and for those with nothing
check their web
> site to see what they are showing there.
>
> As for sort order
I'm not seeing any title/artist info or art for the Jazzradio.fr
stations. Is that expected?
Also, while I'm on, in Material Skin (not checked anything else) I'm
seeing RNP's top list of stations running in an initial chunk
alphabetically (80s/90s to Zog), then four stragglers, then a second
chicks wrote:
> 'This little streamer' (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09HC5GRKY) integrates
> nicely into an LMS setup via UPnP, adding Tidal Connect, Spotify
> Connect, Amazon Music, Alexa, Siri, and more, with bit-perfect clarity.
Intrigued by your mention of this Wiim thingy. How does it
Doing a little research, it seems that Spotify, Tidal, and Apple Music,
at least, all have the facility to make playlist folders. So evidently
there is a demand for something that, in Spotify, I find a very useful
feature for organising what over time can become quite a bevy of
playlists, and
d6jg wrote:
> 2. There is a hybrid way. You can create LMS playlists that contain
> Qobuz tracks. Downside is that if you do this and tpen such a playlist a
> few weeks later you wont immediately SEE the details of the Qobuz
> tracks but when you hit play they will be picked up if that makes
d6jg wrote:
> 1. Not currently implemented in LMS.
>
> 2. I don't think Qobuz has this feature. Its not available in either
> their web or mobile interfaces.
Thanks, Jim.
1. Does that mean it's possible in LMS but not yet done? Or just not
possible, full stop?
2. No, can't see it in Qobuz's
Im trying Qobuz for a free month. Previously only used Spotify for
streaming. Im primarily attracted by Qobuzs hi-res content.
Im using it with the Qobuz plugin on LMS and Material Skin. Two
questions:
1. How do I change the order that my Fvourited albums appear? They
default to date-added
Thanks Michael and Slarti. And this is my point, really. I must have
fiddled with the settings at some point. So to put them back to what
they should be, a list of defaults will ensure no problems. Or am I
misinterpreting your comments?
mherger wrote:
> > FLAC (R) spotty/flac
> > MP3 (R) Disabled (greyed out)
> > Ogg Vorbis (R) Disabled
> > PCM (R) Disabled
> >
> > Those all right?
>
> Of course they're all right. Unless you have a problem with them...
I wanted to be sure these were the default settings, as I mentioned in
slartibartfast wrote:
> Spotty file type settings are completely separate to those ones and have
> their own section.
>
> Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk
Ah, so they do! Thank you, Slarti.
OK, so Spotty currently...
FLAC (R) spotty/flac
MP3 (R) Disabled (greyed out)
Ogg Vorbis (R)
mherger wrote:
> > But anyway, can anyone advise on the correct, or at least best
> settings
> > in LMS's Advanced/File Types? I've always found these a bit baffling
>
> Are you trying to solve a problem? If so, please describe the problem.
> Otherwise just leave those settings alone. Most
Not sure if Spotify is still a dirty word round these parts.
But anyway, can anyone advise on the correct, or at least best settings
in LMS's Advanced/File Types? I've always found these a bit baffling
Spotify is delivered to my Spotty plugin as 705kbps CBR Ogg Vorbis
according to Material
d6jg wrote:
> It will be the player part of iPeng that has the issue
Ah, so a player is not a player is not a player? In other words, the way
they work varies? I wonder what it is that makes the iPeng Playback
different from the Squeezeplay player? No word from penguinlovesmusic
yet...
mherger wrote:
> > Thanks, Michael. When you say they don't play, does the time count
> move,
> > but no audio? With me, the counter indicates it's jumped into the
> > stream, and starts counting, as if playingâbut with no audio. And
> the
> > controls in iPeng for pause etc will now be
mherger wrote:
> > I contacted the developer, penguinlovesmusic, and they are
> > investigating. Will report back when I hear more. In the meantime, is
> > anyone here using iPeng with Playback on an M1 Mac? If so, any luck
> > playing streams such as...
> >
> >
> > D-dur Live classical,
whitman wrote:
>
> Im running iPeng on my MacBook Air M1 and using the Playback facility
> to make it a player. But I have a problem with it crashing when I try to
> play certain radio streams.
>
> (I should add that I can play any and every one of these streams
> perfe
I've posted my questions in refreshed form at the iPeng thread, here...
https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?51929-iPeng-support-thread=1049126=1#post1049126
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https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?116047-iPeng-and-Playback-on-MacOS%97stream-problem
but I suspect I should have asked here. So
Im running iPeng on my MacBook Air M1 and using the Playback facility
to make it a player. But I have a problem with
Not designed for MscOS originally, but at the Apple App Store iPeng
presents compatibility info that has "Mac: Requires macOS 11.0 or later
and a Mac with the Apple M1 chip" at the top of a list of specs covering
iPhone, iPad, iPad Touch, and Apple Watch.
Thanks for your suggestions anyway,
OK, made that setting in LMS, but unfortunately no change.
The behaviour seems to be that when I play one of those higher-kbps (not
kHz!) streams, it will instantly jump to a point a minute or two into
the stream, and start counting down as if playing, but with no audio.
The controls in iPeng
I'm looking in iPeng at Settings/Player Settings/Audio, but I can't see
a setting there for streaming method. All I have there is Crossfade,
Volume Adjustment, Fixed Volume, and Equalizer. Is that where you meant
to look?
Anyone running iPeng on MacOS and using its Playback facility?
M1 Macs will run some iOS apps, like iPeng, and iPeng's Playback option
turns iPeng into an LMS player.
Certainly iPeng runs on my MacBook Air M1 and delivers Playback, but I
have a problem with it crashing when I try to play
Paul Webster wrote:
> I just tried a few of the Klassik radio stations via RNP and all played
> without any special opening announcement.
Interesting. I was sure I'd saved Klassic's classical "Live" channel as
a favourite from RNP. This was the one that gave me the please-retune
message...
Klassik radio classical (at least) has a recorded message now directing
you to retune through play.klassikradio.denot sure how this affects
RNP.
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Grebg, thanks for this, very good to hear of your experience.
Have you ever tried iPeng on MacOS? M1 Macs will run some iOS apps, and
my laptop will run iPeng, though it seems to crash with some streams
(but not others).
Anyway, my iPhone SE (2016) seems OK on battery usage with iPeng, as
does
Paul Webster wrote:
> My response was for the iPad idea - iOS/iPadOS.
>
> There has been recent discussion about running Unix Squeezebox stuff on
> iOS via an emulation layer which might lead somewhere.
I was comparing Squeezeplay to iPeng because my M1 MacOS laptop will run
iOS apps, for
Paul Webster wrote:
> As a native LMS player using SlimProto ... I think iPeng is unique.
> However, you could use a different sort of player.
> For example - something that can play a SHOUTcast stream (an "internet
> radio" app that allows you to enter a stream URL of your own choice)
> could
Thanks Paul and Jim for further advice.
Still thinking my way through, as for me this counts as a potentially
big investment, so I want to consider as many alternatives as poss.
So, I do have an M! MacBook Air (2020). I imagine using that would
eliminate the need for the camera adapter for the
Thanks, Paul. Does that mean iPeng's Playback feature is unique in its
ability to turn an iPad etc into a player?
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So, can you use Material Skin as a player on the device it's running on?
In the same way as you can use iPeng's Playback function?
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Of course. I was excited there for a moment.
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And a thought... I have an unused SB3, so maybe I could hang a DAC like
the Dragonfly off that to drive the cans? Would that work?
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Jim, this is all intriguing stuff, and thanks so much for the advice.
I have my thinking cap on nowit always takes me a while. But will
report back.
And yes, I'd much rather spend money with Richer than the dreaded
Amazon.
Jim, thanks for that.
Quick glance at Amazon shows variable prices for what looks like
different colours of the Audioquest Dragonfly90 quid for black,
200 for red, etc.
I presume there are technical differences?
I'm thinking of getting some headphones to use for LMS, and I'm looking
into iPeng's Playback facility to do this. (This is the iPeng add-on
that effectively turns an iPhone or iPad into an LMS/Squeezebox
player.)
The iPad I'd use is a mini 4. I believe the out from iPeng through the
headphone
Jaca, that's interesting.
Now I see that I can indeed add folders to Spotify's Playlists!
In the official Spotify app on my desktop Mac, if I right-click on an
existing Playlist in the sidebar on the left, there's an option to
Create Folder, which I'd completely missed. It's easy from there
Jaca wrote:
> I mean in official Spotify you can create folder in playlists and then
> another folder with this folder..
> This was reflected in spotty with token trick described on spotty
> settings page
> .
> Weirdly I lost folder structure on my LMS..
> Maybe cos I have cancelled premium
Jaca wrote:
> Only annoyance was I had to tweak playlists structure as had nested
> folders on Spotify and only 1st level of folder is allowed on Tidal.
> Which BTW isn't even visible on LMS or TV app..
Curious to know how you got nested folders anywhere in Spy.
Ah, now the same return with 5.30, it looks like.
I think it was because I ran it with ./ originally and not :"perl" or
"perl[version]".
Trying StreamTitle='Program One: No track
title';StreamUrl='https://somewhere.com/image1.jpg';
artist - No track title
title -
album -
year -
cover -
OK, I cd'd (changed directory) to the desktop, then ran perl5.18
testmatch.pl, and voila...
Trying StreamTitle='Program One: No track
title';StreamUrl='https://somewhere.com/image1.jpg';
artist - No track title
title -
album -
year -
cover - https://somewhere.com/image1.jpg
progtitle -
Running without that returns
Can't open perl script "testmatch.pl": No such file or directory
Because it now doesn't see the file on the desktop?
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Running ./perl5.18 testmatch.pl
returns
zsh: no such file or directory: ./perl5.18
Running ./ perl5.18 testmatch.pl
returns
zsh: permission denied: ./
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So it goes soemwhere near the ./ maybe? But where?
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This is what I did...
Make a plain text file called testmatch.pl consisting of Paul's code.
Go into Terminal and...
... make it exectuable with chmod +x
... run it with ./
... get output to show.
I didn't tell it "perl" of any kind.
Thanks Michael.
Is there a way to run Paul's test file on my Mac with the 5.18 perl that
LMS uses rather than the default(?) 5.30 version?
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What I did was make a plain text file called testmatch.pl consisting of
the code in your first box.
I went into Terminal and...
... made it exectuable with chmod +x
... ran it with ./
... got the output I showed.
I just re-read the message about perl version (5.30.2) returned at
Terminal when I typed "perl -v". But the Information page at LMS on my
browser says
"Perl Version: 5.18.4 - darwin-thread-multi-2level"
whitman's
No stray ', it opens immediately into my...
Isn't this message referring to an errant (
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Paul, I've had a go at this, tho it strained my Terminal skills
(=googling) on my Mac, so I hope this is correct and/or useful.
Perl version on the Mac hosting LMS is ...
This is perl 5, version 30, subversion 2 (v5.30.2) built for
darwin-thread-multi-2level
(with 2 registered patches, see
This is terrific stuff, Paul.
I am impressed that just about a week after I tentatively asked about
the possibility of adding Swiss Radio and Jazz24 to your Radio Now
Playing plugin, here we are, after some... shall we say 'challenges' for
you? Here we are, then, with two superbly working
As I say, I thought the no-cover tracks were tracks from their own
sessionsthey do play such thingsbut I think there are too many for
that to be the case, and looking also at the playlist, some of the
non-cover tracks are indeed listed as being from specific albums
I think a trade-off for no
Got the 15b beta, and yes, seeing album artwork.
I guess you know this, but the "next" track info arrives ahead of its
audio, and the artwork arrives a little after that.
Note that the Jazz 24 logo appears instead of an album cover when it's
one of the station's own sessions that's being
I just took a glance at the Listen link at their site...
https://v7player.wostreaming.net/854
...and The Nightcrawlers info changed to Harvey Mason info pretty much
instantaneously with the audio.
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Ah, I hadn't seen that.
And yes, the info in that bottom-of-the-main-page slug is WELL ahead of
the actual change of audio, as you say.
I presume from you mentioning this that you have to derive info for your
purposes from the slug and not the Listen pageeven though the Listen
page is where
Paul Webster wrote:
> Question now is whether or not I can have cover art working for Jazz24
> before the next update
>
> [image:
> https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/2026/6ea79c391f41fb45f5e3840df429bb37.jpg]
That would be icing on an increasingly delicious cake.
Paul Webster wrote:
> For Mother Earth - try the MP3 stream .. I was playing it recently on my
> new old Logitech Air Speaker and is was working well.
>
> For JukeRadio - it looks like a problem on their side.
> It appears to be stuck on Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Blinded By The
> Light
>
Only had time this evening for a swift test of each station, and most
seem to be doing the business very well.
Juke Radio is there, but not playing for me. Ditto Mother Earth. No time
now to check the circumstances of those two more thoroughly, but will do
so tomorrow when I'll have more time.
Looks good: Radio Swiss is now in the list, and none of the others have
disappeared, so I have 19 top-level names in total. I will test how it
all plays later on and report back.
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I'd be happy to try this too if it's any help, but I'm not on the beta
inside-track.
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Is there something else I can try as a result of that?
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Hmm, odd indeed. Some comfort in not being alone, tho.
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OK, went ahead and tried it. Followed your instructions, but still no
Swiss Radio in menu/
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I'm nervous about the "not a great change to make for a working system".
Presumably I should keep a backup of the working json file for safety,
then do the change you suggest, see if it generates the menu name, then
revert to regular version?
This is the full entry in Info in case it helps...
Logitech Media Server Version: 8.2.1 - 1634705759 @ Wed Oct 20 07:11:04
CEST 2021
Hostname: Mac-mini.local
Server IP Address: 192.168.1.104
Server HTTP Port Number: 9000
Operating system: macOS 11.6.1 - EN - utf8
Platform Architecture: x86_64
Installed on MacOS 11.6.1. Information shows this for Perl...
<< Perl Version: 5.18.4 - darwin-thread-multi-2level >>
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Am I right to still wonder if it could be Mac related, and to check
that, is there anyone else using LMS on a Mac who is seeing/not seeing
Swiss Radio in the menu? Just thinking what's different about my setup.
whitman's
Also, the log does show no live stream for Klassic, for example, too,
but that shows in my menu.
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I did see that and wondered. I already have 8.2.1, Oct 20 build.
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** This is the last entry on the server log, so time seems OK. (There
are lots of similar superdatetime entries earlier.)
<<[21-11-14 08:09:31.2613] Plugins::SuperDateTime::Plugin::stuckMonitor
(4712) Plugin appears to be stuck. Forcing refresh...>>
** With debug set on Radio Now Playing and
I did try that earlier, and also updated LMS to the latest 8.2 build.
I've restarted countless times. I crossed all my fingers and toes. I
think I'll sleep on it.
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Thanks for the positive reports, CJS and ericj. Hmmm. Anyone running LMS
on a Mac and seeing Radio Swiss in the list? Can't think what else to
query, really. (PS, it was a good spagbol.)
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I'm off to make some spagbol now, but thanks for trying so far, Paul.
More anon, maybe?
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Played Swiss Classic from the browser, no cover art, and just from-start
duration (I presume not individual track).
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Tried Firefox instead of Safari: same no-show.
Tried a SB3, no-show in menu there.
Hmmm.
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Yes, in the 'Broadcasters to suppress", unchecked (as they all are).
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Not at the bottom of the list.
Nothing in settings is checked, so no prob there.
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I've flushed various cashes, but still not seeing it.
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Are you sure? Never had to do that before.
I definitely have 0.0.13.
Is anyone else seeing/not seeing Radio Swiss in the list of 0.0.13?
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Which cache?
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Strange: updated to 0.0.13, but no sign of Radio Swiss in the list.
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Looking forward to trying the non-beta when it's ready...
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Paul, that's very good of you. I think these would make a good addition
to the plugin. Thank you!
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Jazz 24 ...
https://www.jazz24.org
... shows album art on their site listen link, here...
https://v7player.wostreaming.net/854
And so does Radio Swiss Classic ...
https://www.radioswissclassic.ch/en
whitman's
Paul, a couple of stations that I listen to regularly on LMS do not show
album art (at least not on the links I use, which I believe are the best
quality available in each case).
First is Jazz24, which for my taste is one of the better jazz stations.
I have this link in my Favourites...
OK, didn't realise I had to actually make a folder and file. And then
put the code at post 7656 into the empty file?
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> Tfec, I've looked in all the obvious Squeezebox cache, prefs, and plugin
> folders on my host Mac, and I can't see any Material Skin .css files. In
> fact the only MS file I can see in those folders is one called
> material-skin.prefs, which is a text fi
tfec wrote:
> OK. cpd73 has made a way to inject personal CSS into his Material Skin:
>
> Please find or make the file
> -prefs/plugin/material-skin.now-playing.css- and put the following lines
> at the end of that file:
> >
Code:
> >
tfec wrote:
> For which end device should the change be?
> Do you have access to the "prefs/plugin" folder in the LMS install
> location?
> Are you using portrait- or landscape-mode?
The end device is an iPad, I have access to the LMS install location,
though I'm not sure what you mean by the
OK, cpd. I guess "css" is some sort of coding, and so I assume it's not
going to happen if only one user wants it!
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Is there a way to omit cover art (or the cover art placeholder) in the
Expanded Now Playing view? What I want is just the track-info text,
bigger, ideally filling the space available.
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Thanks Phillipe. Slippery slopes are not for me, either. Will give this
scheme a try and report back.
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> Im the maintainer of the plugin. Audio is encoded to 44/16, for every
> test that Ive ever logged and, I can check the code, but AFAIR, there
> are places where 44/16 is hard coded.
>
> [edit]: confirmed, the capabilities are hardcoded at 44/16
Philippe, thanks, and
slartibartfast wrote:
> Sounds like no to me. Unless you consider 44/16 hi-res [emoji3]
Seems like Apple are saying their lossless files are ALAC ranging from
44/16 to 48/24, so that lower 44/16 end would, at least in theory, be
better than the regular Spotify files I'm hearing at present.
philippe_44 wrote:
> Shairtunes2W uses AirPlay 1 which is 44/16
OK, so is that a yes for hi-res with this scheme?
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Ive been wondering about giving Apple Music a whirl, and I planned to
use shairtunes to stream it via Airplay from my Mac laptop or my iPad to
my DAC32. (I have my Mac mini running LMS on the same network.)
But Ive seen some debate online questioning if Airplay can deliver
Apple Musics
mherger wrote:
> > So how do I make it play FLAC?
>
> Disable SPT -> PCM
Ah, and ta too slarti, one of those "obvious when you say it" things.
Right, set to play FLAC only, and all three of my players, SB3, Radio,
and DAC32, playing now without stutters.
Info reads the same for each: "Ogg
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