[SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Some of my iTunes AAC rips won't play
I'm having a weird problem playing some albums that I ripped using iTunes. The files are saved with the M4A extension, and for only some of them I get a message from LMS that it couldn't open the file. If an album has 10 tracks, I might be able to play all but three of them. I have no problem playing the files in question using other software, like Media Monkey. Also, if I add the songs to my Amazon library, they usually get matched and if I download the matched MP3s from Amazon, those files work fine. Can anyone tell me what is going on? Thanks in advance. rojikewl's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=62055 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=107166 ___ Squeezecenter mailing list Squeezecenter@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezecenter
Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Alexa and LMS - new lease of life?
mherger wrote: > > > - should the system be an always on, always listening system, or on > demand (eg. key press) only? > > - would you like the system to interrupt playback to talk back to you in > > case it didn't understand you? > > - what would you expect it to do if you asked it to "play kiss". > Prince's track Kiss or Carly Rae Jepsen's album Kiss or the band Kiss' > most popular tracks? Or, I forgot your playlist of the same name :-) > Alexa is always listening, but she does have a button that turns off her microphones. She always temporarily mutes playback when you say the wake word. Unless of course you have turned her up so loud that she can't hear you over what she is playing. With your question about "play kiss" I can say that she rarely asks for clarification. Usually she'll just go with her best guess, and you have to try again if she's wrong. Sometimes she will say "You want to hear xxx by xxx, right?" Amazon is pushing its new Amazon Music Unlimited service big time right now. I got an e-mail talking about Alexa's "song of the day" feature. Apparently it used to be called "Song of the Day for Prime Members," but when I tried to check it out today Alexa played a rather long and annoying ad for Amazon Music Unlimited. The Song of the Day is now only available to Music Unlimited subscribers. rojikewl's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=62055 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106149 ___ Squeezecenter mailing list Squeezecenter@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezecenter
Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Alexa and LMS - new lease of life?
mherger wrote: > > Alexa play Bruce Springsteen > > How good is it at recognizing artists vs. albums vs. track names etc.? > > -- > > Michael I find it to be quite good. You can say "Alexa, play the song xxx by xxx" or "...the song xxx from the album xxx" and she usually gets it right and the music starts playing very quickly. When she doesn't get something you help her out by using the Alexa app. I have one of the original Echo devices, which can only connect to other systems via Bluetooth. The newer Echo Dot has both Bluetooth and a line out. I really like the Echo for listening to news, asking for the weather, setting timers and alarms, etc., but I much prefer to use my Squeezebox system for music, because it is connected to the sound systems I want to use, because of the synchronization and now because of Tidal. I have often wished that Alexa could play through LMS! The original Kindle software was based on software from a company called Mobipocket, and Kindle e-books are still Mobipocket-compatible. It has occurred to me many times that Amazon should use LMS for synchronization between Alexa and Squeezebox devices. rojikewl's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=62055 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106149 ___ Squeezecenter mailing list Squeezecenter@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezecenter
Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Issues with Tidal (v1.2 plugin) by Logitech
I've been using Tidal on my Squeezebox system for some time now, and I have noticed that playlists and albums often don't have all of the tracks that appear in the same playlists and albums on the Tidal website and in Tidal apps. Just yesterday I was going through some of my "favorite" tracks on Tidal to see if I could play them using LMS, and for some tracks that appeared on multiple albums, only one of them would play through LMS. Right now, however, Tidal seems to be working very well through LMS, with just about everything that I look for showing up and being playable! It's better than it's ever been. If any testing is needed, I'd be glad to help. By the way, people in this thread have compared Logitech Tidal to ickStream Tidal, and now I'm a little confused. I remember that when I first set up Tidal with LMS I did set up ickStream. Was that a plugin that is not listed on the Plugins tab in LMS settings? I seem to recall seeing an ickStream app on mysqueezebox.com, but I don't see one there now. Anyway, I had to do a clean installation of Windows on a new hard drive, and LMS was one of the many things I had to reinstall. Tidal continued to work for me, so was I somehow seamlessly migrated from ickStream Tidal to Logitech Tidal? Are there any significant differences between the two? Finally, I would like to thank Michael, who I understand is responsible for the continuing development of LMS. I finally installed version 7.9 (previously I was using 7.7.5, since that is what's on the mysqueezebox.com site) recently, and the improvements are fantastic. This system was so far ahead of its time. I wish Logitech would bring back a Squeezebox line of devices. I never even knew it existed until I started looking around for something I vaguely imagined an "Internet radio" would be. Little did I know that the Squeezebox Touch I ended up choosing was part of such an incredibly versatile and useful system. rojikewl's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=62055 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106164 ___ Squeezecenter mailing list Squeezecenter@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezecenter
