Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] High CPU streaming internet radio

2021-12-13 Thread slartibartfast
gordonb3 wrote: > Thx > > I had a similar issue on my installation. Didn't really notice it > because it is not a machine I work on but as I started running python > scripts as part of a home automation project I found that some of the > stations would frequently drop out. Took me a bit to

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] High CPU streaming internet radio

2021-12-13 Thread gordonb3
slartibartfast wrote: > Well they had another post about the same thing and nobody responded to > that one either but there is more detail in it. > https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?p=635687 > > Thx I had a similar issue on my installation. Didn't really notice it because it is

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Problem with similar album names from same artist

2021-12-13 Thread chrober
Applying some kind of disambiguation to the album title seems to be the most obvious choice. SpiderJon wrote: > Slightly less inelegant would be just "Evanescence" and "Evanescence > (EP)" ie, if it doesn't say it's something else, it's an album. OK, I'll go with that convention, it

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] LMS losing subfolders after a few days Windows 10

2021-12-13 Thread mherger
Is G: a drive local to the LMS machine? From the screenshot it looks like a share? If it's an external drive (USB), is power saving enabled which might make it go to sleep after a while? If so, disable it? Michael "It doesn't work - what shall I do?" - "Please check your server.log and/or

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] LMS losing subfolders after a few days Windows 10

2021-12-13 Thread berxter
slartibartfast wrote: > What do you expect to see? Surely if you click on Adams you will see the > sub folders. > > Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk Nope, that's it; After a few days it will show "empty", and I will have to restart the Win 10 machine.

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] LMS losing subfolders after a few days Windows 10

2021-12-13 Thread slartibartfast
berxter wrote: > Hi, delurking. I have been using LMS, feeding a Transporter, hardwired. > I have a designated, old machine running an updated Win10; LMS version > 8.21. There are about 70.000 tracks from 5700 albums. The last couple of > months, I have had to restart the server, the entire

[SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] LMS losing subfolders after a few days Windows 10

2021-12-13 Thread berxter
Hi, delurking. I have been using LMS, feeding a Transporter, hardwired. I have a designated, old machine running an updated Win10; LMS version 8.21. There are about 70.000 tracks from 5700 albums. The last couple of months, I have had to restart the server, the entire machine, restarting LMS

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Problem with similar album names from same artist

2021-12-13 Thread Apesbrain
And, yes, once this change is made LMS will separate the tracks appropriately on the next library rescan. Apesbrain's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=738 View this thread:

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Problem with similar album names from same artist

2021-12-13 Thread RobbH
SpiderJon wrote: > Slightly less inelegant would be just "Evanescence" and "Evanescence > (EP)" — ie, if it doesn't say it's something else, it's an album. I think that's MUCH less inelegant! Maybe even approaching a state of elegance. LMS 8 nightly running on Raspberry Pi OS. Mostly

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Problem with similar album names from same artist

2021-12-13 Thread SpiderJon
RobbH wrote: > It's not elegant, but I would deal with this by changing the album title > tags to, respectively "Evanescence (EP)" and "Evanescence (LP)". > Wouldn't LMS then distinguish between them? Slightly less inelegant would be just "Evanescence" and "Evanescence (EP)" — ie, if it

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Additional SSD to add to LMS

2021-12-13 Thread thewebgal
Thank you for all your help with this, Ronnie - it's much appreciated! Man in a van wrote: > I'm sorry, but I can not help anymore with this. :( > The solution evades me, and I have just spent a lot of time trying to > find one.:confused: > ronnie

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Problem with similar album names from same artist

2021-12-13 Thread RobbH
It's not elegant, but I would deal with this by changing the album title tags to, respectively "Evanescence (EP)" and "Evanescence (LP)". Wouldn't LMS then distinguish between them? LMS 8 nightly running on Raspberry Pi OS. Mostly virtual players, occasionally with SB Radio, Boom or Classic.

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] High CPU streaming internet radio

2021-12-13 Thread slartibartfast
gordonb3 wrote: > Right... Failed to notice that this was a necropost. Wonder if OP ever > found the cause as there does not appear to have been any response to > his inquiry.Well they had another post about the same thing and nobody > responded to that one either but there is more detail in

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] High CPU streaming internet radio

2021-12-13 Thread gordonb3
bpa wrote: > The LMS 7.7 and KIRO stream is from the 2011 post and not the most > recent poster - 10 years later. Right... Failed to notice that this was a necropost. Wonder if OP ever found the cause as there does not appear to have been any response to his inquiry.

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] High CPU streaming internet radio

2021-12-13 Thread Michael Herger
To provide an informed answer, poster has to provide more details on system (CPU, OS, webUI Settings/LMS information ) and player details. https://github.com/Logitech/slimserver/issues/700 has more information, including a playlist with various streams, some of which show the high CPU

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] High CPU streaming internet radio

2021-12-13 Thread bpa
bwaldron wrote: > Yikes! I hadn't noticed that. Obviously unrelated to the streaming mode > setting that didn't exist until recently. If all the OS and LMS SSL/TLS components are not up to date - some https processing can get excessive but usually only at startup. For the recent poster,

[SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Problem with similar album names from same artist

2021-12-13 Thread chrober
Hi all, today I found out I am experiencing a problem with a rather unusual constellation: In my LMS media library I have an artist with two "albums" of the same title. How come? Actually only one is a real album while the other one is just an EP. (FYI: The band is Evanescence who released a

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] LMS Default Skin / pcP - how to show only artist, not album artist?

2021-12-13 Thread afriend
New test VM (macOS 15) with *clean/new/vanilla* LMS installation (8.2.1-1639114554) -> same same - like screenshots above. :-( The thing is I'm reasonably sure that LMS default skin's current client playlist displayed *track* artists instead of -album- artists... once upon a time... Leaving the

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Access music library on Synology NAS with LMS using iPhone and send to MusicCast?

2021-12-13 Thread Paul Webster
Can each individual speaker be reached via AirPlay? If yes - then you could installed the Groups plugin and then set up some groups ... e.g. "Zone 1" = "AirPlay Speaker 1" and "AirPlay Speaker 2" Then you send the music to LMS player "Zone 1" and both AirPlay speakers should play with the

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] High CPU streaming internet radio

2021-12-13 Thread bwaldron
bpa wrote: > The LMS 7.7 and KIRO stream is from the 2011 post and not the most > recent poster - 10 years later. Yikes! I hadn't noticed that. Obviously unrelated to the streaming mode setting that didn't exist until recently.

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Additional SSD to add to LMS

2021-12-13 Thread Man in a van
thewebgal wrote: > Nice - but those screens look different than mine, > I have no "browse" function that I can see. > I can't duplicate your choices - and get complaints that my mac's name > does not match required format - > and I can't change it now after 12 years. > > Again, I'm on a 2009

[SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Access music library on Synology NAS with LMS using iPhone and send to MusicCast?

2021-12-13 Thread spacetaxi33
Hi all, I have a Synology NAS with LMS setup and configured/running. I am using iPeng to access it and it's connecting and playing fine. However with iPeng I do not have any option to send to my network enabled speakers unless I use Airplay option. I have a receiver with MusicCast that is setup,

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] High CPU streaming internet radio

2021-12-13 Thread bpa
gordonb3 wrote: > Looks like KFI stream is not available outside US/California. I can > access KIRO though and according to VLC the stream is not AAC but MPeG > 1/2 audio. Now I'm not sure about the defaults, but seeing the high CPU > load is an indication that LMS is transcoding the stream to

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] High CPU streaming internet radio

2021-12-13 Thread gordonb3
Looks like KFI stream is not available outside US/California. I can access KIRO though and according to VLC the stream is not AAC but MPeG 1/2 audio. Now I'm not sure about the defaults, but seeing the high CPU load is an indication that LMS is transcoding the stream to a different audio format

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Additional SSD to add to LMS

2021-12-13 Thread garym
thewebgal wrote: > Nice - but those screens look different than mine, > I have no "browse" function that I can see. > I can't duplicate your choices - and get complaints that my mac's name > does not match required format - > and I can't change it now after 12 years. > > Again, I'm on a 2009

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] QLogitechMediaServer for Qnap with QTS 4.2 or higher and x86_64/I686/X86 support !

2021-12-13 Thread BobW
QLMS was running for several years. When I changed from provider and got the Ziggo Connectbox I had some problems, but could resolve them by restarting LMS in a TTY session. Now suddenly the SQB Touch and Duet stopped working indicating to replace the 7.9 version by a newer version. I noticed