Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] innuOS LMS embrace, extend & break .... and the GPL?

2021-06-19 Thread pippin
Have you asked them for the source code? That should usually be the easiest step to find out how they handle GPL... --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, at penguinlovesmusic.com *New:

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Weird problem with one album, tracks are all truncated...

2019-07-02 Thread pippin
Tagging WAV never worked correctly. You’ll find that the tracks will play correctly, just the durations will be shown incorrectly. --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, at

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] LMS / Max number of players and how to reduce latency

2019-03-29 Thread pippin
It all depends on how dissimilar the devices are. The more devices you want to sync, the more similar they need to be. An underpowered battery might cause clock drift and that’s bad for sync, for example. --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] LMS / Max number of players and how to reduce latency

2019-02-21 Thread pippin
ClaudeBoulard wrote: > > MY goal will have 10 RPI players, and in some case I'd like to sync all > in the same group. That was the meaning of my question. > Hope that with a wired connection + 'powerfull' RPI server it will be > OK. > If that's a common thing you want to do I'd make sure:

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] LMS / Max number of players and how to reduce latency

2019-02-20 Thread pippin
Ummm, sure, a lot of us here have built such systems. If you want to sync all 10 players together in one group you’d need players with very good timing or you’ll see dropouts but 3-4 per group should also work with a RPi. You should not run a player on the RPi that runs the server, it will lag

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Stream LMS music to Ipeng mobile phone when outside wifi coverage?

2018-12-19 Thread pippin
Regarding ads: iPeng is a paid app and an expensive one as well. There's no way I'm going to do ads in iPeng. For this (Cloud based solution with running costs) it would have to be a subscription. --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Stream LMS music to Ipeng mobile phone when outside wifi coverage?

2018-12-17 Thread pippin
Mnyb wrote: > Just so we are at the same page . The VPN solutions used for this > purpose is not the same as you use to log on to work or a custommer site > or redirect all our web browser traffic or to,pretend you in a different > country anything like that . > These will probably have unwanted

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Stream LMS music to Ipeng mobile phone when outside wifi coverage?

2018-12-17 Thread pippin
ere any existing open source software, that's fairly well tested, > that could be used to piece something like this together 75% of the > way? > > Finally on the subject, since the major players in this space believe > this issue to be a dead/silly idea/not worth the effort, I'll dr

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Stream LMS music to Ipeng mobile phone when outside wifi coverage?

2018-12-15 Thread pippin
markm wrote: > > Use whatever business model you want, if you want - that was not my > primary point. > I only brought it up to point out that there could be money to be made > by having established products enhance their product by adapting this > tech into their tech. > So since this

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] LMS Volume control

2018-12-12 Thread pippin
And regarding your other questions: I believe there are ways to make either the server (Daphile) or the player (SqueezeLite settings) either but I’m not sure. Per default, a Squeezebox will multiply the signal value with the volume and als in addition to that with replay gain values (if enabled)

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] LMS Volume control

2018-12-12 Thread pippin
No, replay gain is always negative in a Squeezebox system (smaller than one as a factor, negative dB) --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, at penguinlovesmusic.com *New: iPeng 9, the

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Stream LMS music to Ipeng mobile phone when outside wifi coverage?

2018-12-12 Thread pippin
DJanGo wrote: > > sounds like a great Idea, but remember there are not only fritzboxusers > outside and there are fritzboxusers outside ;-) > Sure. But besides Fritz!Box... most routers you'd buy yourself today have VPN-functionality. OK, granted, some of the cheapo-devices ISPs give away

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Stream LMS music to Ipeng mobile phone when outside wifi coverage?

2018-12-12 Thread pippin
There's this: https://penguinlovesmusic.de/ipeng-the-iphone-skin-for-squeezecenter/how-to-use-the-ipeng-application/known-issues/coolios-guide-to-remote-playback/ That said: I definitely do NOT recommend to open a port to the internet instead of using a VPN, it's not safe. We plan to add a VPN

Re: Error: Can't connect to remote server to retrieve�.

2018-11-13 Thread pippin
Many thanks, Tony. Took a while (a ton of error in the tests) but actually works, well done! --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, at penguinlovesmusic.com *New: iPeng 9, the Universal

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Slim Server

2018-11-07 Thread pippin
Wasn’t it SqueezeCenter->Squeezebox Server? --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, at penguinlovesmusic.com *New: iPeng 9, the Universal App for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch*

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] My Apps list empty

2018-09-01 Thread pippin
Have you tried to restart the server? I’d also recommend to clear the browser cache but if you already tried another browser that’s probably moot --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App,

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Logitech Media Server 7.9.1 is out!

2018-04-21 Thread pippin
Please create a separate thread and don't spam the announcement thread with configuration questions, thanks! --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, at penguinlovesmusic.com *New: iPeng

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Logitech Media Server 7.9.1 is out!

2018-04-19 Thread pippin
Thanks! Great news! --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, at penguinlovesmusic.com *New: iPeng 9, the Universal App for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch*

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Slimserver (LMS for picorePlayer) author - ask for contact

2018-03-19 Thread pippin
baxoza wrote: > Yes !!! it would be nice and I think it should be standard in this > times > LMS using plugins like Spotify, Tidal etc. where is secured protocol > what is acceptable in plugins but LMS is ... I don't know... old skull ? > > I agree with this there is no ability on hardware

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Slimserver (LMS for picorePlayer) author - ask for contact

2018-03-14 Thread pippin
baxoza wrote: > Thank You for answer. > Yes - You are right ! So I told to specialists that the security > firewall should be enough but security policy is required so that there > is no unencrypted traffic so they too are right. > Please tell me - is really unnecessary/impossible to add

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] JSONRPC::requestMethod (443) request not dispatchable! ????????

2018-02-22 Thread pippin
dolodobendan wrote: > Thank you, I must have missed it. I would have expected it in the > "MultiPlayer Control" screen after pressing the "i" though, because > that's where the server's MAC is shown. Twice. :) Yea, if you open the server settings :) It’s because it’s something you need there

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] JSONRPC::requestMethod (443) request not dispatchable! ????????

2018-02-21 Thread pippin
dolodobendan wrote: > Does iPeng somewhere show which MAC is used? (If not, in the player info > right under "Squeezebox Name" would be a nice spot to display it. > [emoji14]) Settings->Advanced->Squeezebox Information-> --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] JSONRPC::requestMethod (443) request not dispatchable! ????????

2018-02-11 Thread pippin
The 01:... players are probably iPeng instances. Since Apple doesn’t allow Apps to track users anymore, you will get a new one every time you uninstall and reinstall iPeng. I don’t know what the aa... ones are, maybe a bridge plugin? --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Synchronised players - how to power one of them off/on separately

2018-01-20 Thread pippin
I think that option is somewhat broken. I believe it will act on all players if the master in the group has the option enabled and separately if the master has the option disabled. Problem is, whenever you power off a master the master changes... --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Accessing 3rd Party Plugin functionality e.g. BBC iPlayer via UPnP

2018-01-08 Thread pippin
I think what he wants to do is use LMS as a server for UPnP devices using a UPnP controller and that doesn’t work with plugins. What you can do is use UPnPBridge to play to a UPnP device from the LMS UI, that might work with some plugin streams (probably not all of them) --- learn more about

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Accessing 3rd Party Plugin functionality e.g. BBC iPlayer via UPnP

2018-01-08 Thread pippin
No. These plugins only create menus, no structure data. UPnP can’t use menus, only tracks and streams. --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, at penguinlovesmusic.com *New: iPeng 9, the

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Play on one SqueezeLite launch playlist on Squeezebox Radio

2018-01-05 Thread pippin
Im still confused. Barberousse seems to use JiveLite for control and DJanGo the web interface, is this correct? If they both show this same behavior it looks like more of a server issue. So this will also erase the existing playlist for the erroneously playing player or does this only happen if

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Play on one SqueezeLite launch playlist on Squeezebox Radio

2018-01-05 Thread pippin
Sure you’ve selected the correct player in JiveLight? --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, at penguinlovesmusic.com *New: iPeng 9, the Universal App for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch*

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Re-sequencing a Playlist

2017-12-12 Thread pippin
For reordering the current playlist? That should work on any OS. --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, at penguinlovesmusic.com *New: iPeng 9, the Universal App for iPhone, iPad and

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Lyrics!

2017-11-08 Thread pippin
Works for me with Music and Artist Information plugin and iPeng. Still limited to what’s being found on Chartlyrics but of course. --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, at

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Lyrics!

2017-11-07 Thread pippin
Great News! --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, at penguinlovesmusic.com *New: iPeng 9, the Universal App for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch*

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Feed and control Digital radio intosqueezebox ecosystem?

2017-11-06 Thread pippin
Ah, understood. I always forget about the sports rights disaster (although it's just the same over here in Europe). --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, at penguinlovesmusic.com *New:

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Run w/o database?

2017-10-26 Thread pippin
Well, they identify as Roon and not as Logitech Media Server :) And you should not use the same because that would actually disable all browsing in iPeng... But if the version string that is submitted on connection would contain some kind of information that no library is available, that would be

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Run w/o database?

2017-10-26 Thread pippin
It would be good if that was something which could be identified right from the server connection. Like in the http header identification or so. iPeng generally now supports servers without library menu entries, something I introduced for Roon, but it needs to know this early and it’s also not

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] iTunes Home Sharing Enabled causes LMS to shut down?

2017-10-16 Thread pippin
Oh, and 23,000 tracks is not a „rather large library“ by LMS standards, I’ve seen people with over a million tracks, no problems there. --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, at

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] iTunes Home Sharing Enabled causes LMS to shut down?

2017-10-16 Thread pippin
Maybe update to the latest 7.9.1 beta? I do use LMS and iTunes with Home Sharing in the same Mac so it can work. That said: I don’t use iTunes integration in LMS because I don’t have any iTunes playlists and LMS can scan an iTunes library simply by adding the music folder path (and my iTunes

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Squeezebox over VPN

2017-10-11 Thread pippin
Same IP range is not a problem. What makes some hotel WiFis problematic is that some hotels block VPNs because they don’t want you to use VoIP. --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, at

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Squeezebox over VPN

2017-10-11 Thread pippin
With a VPN you use the IP range of the remote network. --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, at penguinlovesmusic.com *New: iPeng 9, the Universal App for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch*

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Squeezebox suddenly starting all songs at 2:56 and no audio comes out

2017-10-07 Thread pippin
Bookmark plugin? --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, at penguinlovesmusic.com *New: iPeng 9, the Universal App for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch*

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Sync Group - force leader ?

2017-08-26 Thread pippin
Maybe a hack... isn’t there a setting that controls whether a player starts up powered ‚on‘ or ‚off‘? If one player is ‚on‘ and the others are ‚off‘ the ‚on‘-player will become master. --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Performance using network drive for music storage? (LMS running in virtual machine)

2017-08-13 Thread pippin
My setup is pretty similar and I’m quite happy about it. It’s very flexible, especially if I want to set up a second server instance for testing etc or when accessing the music from different machines. My NAS also has RAID which makes handling disc faults and upgrades easier. The downside is

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] mono audio setting possible in LMS

2017-08-01 Thread pippin
You can set that in the piCorePlayer settings for SqueezeLite. Not as convenient but then the player probably stays that way --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, at

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Spotify sync issues

2017-07-10 Thread pippin
How many players are these? --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, at penguinlovesmusic.com *New: iPeng 9, the Universal App for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch*

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] [slim] iOS11 upgrade - squeezeboxcontroller app no longer working

2017-07-02 Thread pippin
BTW, iPeng 9 is 9$, not 10. just to nitpick. --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, at penguinlovesmusic.com *New: iPeng 9, the Universal App for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch*

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Mobile web UI

2017-06-18 Thread pippin
I would say iPeng (the original web skin version) but I'm afraid it will no longer work after the web UI changes in LMS 7.6 The same is probably true of the Handheld skin --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Is "Play all" sorted on year instead of albums possible?

2017-06-15 Thread pippin
No, it's not an iPeng issue, it's a question of server settings. There is no way to tell the server to play an artist by year from iPeng so,I think your configuration is probably from the OPs. That difference is probably the answer. --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] How many sync'd players are realistc?

2017-06-12 Thread pippin
I've synced up to 7. I think there used to be a limit of 12 or so but I think that's no longer the case. One thing that is important with so many players is that they are similar. Different device types have different timing behavior and that can cause a lot of sync corrections which with this

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Apple Lossless sound quality comparison between AppleTV and SqueezeBox 3

2017-06-11 Thread pippin
A bit unlikely with ALAC. While ALAC is lossless it uses floatingpoint PCM instead of fixed point PCM AFAIK. --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, at penguinlovesmusic.com *New: iPeng

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Apple Lossless sound quality comparison between AppleTV and SqueezeBox 3

2017-06-08 Thread pippin
xcool wrote: > Yes, same volume. Measured purely by my ears. I can tell the sound > produced by my AppleTV just sound better (more details, image, range > etc.). Again, both SB and AppleTV are routed through the same DAC in > my case. Your ears are not a suitable instrument to measure

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Apple Lossless sound quality comparison between AppleTV and SqueezeBox 3

2017-06-07 Thread pippin
Same volume? Measured how? --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, at penguinlovesmusic.com *New: iPeng 9, the Universal App for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch*

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Has Songs & Search Songs returned to the main menu yet (or, where can I get 7.5.5)

2017-06-03 Thread pippin
Ah, on the player? But not in the web interface? --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, at penguinlovesmusic.com *New: iPeng 9, the Universal App for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch*

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Has Songs & Search Songs returned to the main menu yet (or, where can I get 7.5.5)

2017-05-26 Thread pippin
Sure, it's on downloads.slimdevices.com. That said: how do you enable "Songs" in 7.5.5? My 7.5 test server doesn't have it. --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, at

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Cannot Set Sleep Timer from LMS for a Player?

2017-05-16 Thread pippin
I think the web interface could do what iPeng does or at least have it in Settings --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, at penguinlovesmusic.com *New: iPeng 9, the Universal App for

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Cannot Set Sleep Timer from LMS for a Player?

2017-05-15 Thread pippin
epoch1970 wrote: > Perhaps the way the Don't stop the music plugin works, adding a "Sleep" > action item somehere in the playlist? How does this help for the widget? I mean ... in the main interface there is already a nice shortcut (hold the play button) but that doesn't work from the widget.

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Cannot Set Sleep Timer from LMS for a Player?

2017-05-14 Thread pippin
karlek wrote: > Oops! I completely misunderstood the thread title. ;( > And as it comes to that, sleep mode is - even before shuffle and repeat > - the main reason why I prefer a decent RC near my SBen. :) Yea, I totally understand that, ever since I introduced the widget in iPeng I've

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Cannot Set Sleep Timer from LMS for a Player?

2017-05-12 Thread pippin
No, it's controlled by LMS and there are CLI commands and also SqueezePlay menus for it but I think the web interface does indeed not have it, not even in settings. --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Raspberry Pi mit volumio & LMS -> LMS is di

2017-05-04 Thread pippin
How did you install LMS? --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, at penguinlovesmusic.com *New: iPeng 9, the Universal App for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch*

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Raspberry Pi mit volumio & LMS -> LMS is di

2017-05-02 Thread pippin
Sorry, i don't understand, where are you running LMS? On the same RPi where you also run Volumio? --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, at penguinlovesmusic.com *New: iPeng 9, the

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Squeezebox controller ios app

2017-04-25 Thread pippin
Hard to tell, I would not count on it. Options, well, what shall _I_ say here --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, at penguinlovesmusic.com *New: iPeng 9, the Universal App for

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Wrong IP address in LMS

2017-04-23 Thread pippin
Could you have two versions/instances of LMS running on the same machine? Any manual configuration of the IP address on the NAS? --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, at

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Sound drop on sync

2017-03-29 Thread pippin
bpa wrote: > IIRC there has been only one rewrite of the syncing mechanism and I > think that had to work without changing slimproto. I'm sure it could be > done better but I don't think anyone will undertake it as the "pain" > will probably be greater than the "rewards". Probably. I don't

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Sound drop on sync

2017-03-29 Thread pippin
I have always wondered this myself. I think the reason is to make sure the players start to play in sync and avoid excessive re-syncing which would sound bad. To synchronize the playback the server manages each player's latency and tells the player, where to start in the stream, the server

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Help with custom-convert.conf

2017-03-28 Thread pippin
Does enabling Bitrate limiting help? And you do have lame installed? If that doesn't help, I'd ask in the plugin thread, I don't think it's related to custom-convert in that case --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] 7.9.0 - 1407325933 on WHS v1 - Any Compelling Reason to Update?

2017-03-27 Thread pippin
If you use more than one language or have occasional problems with adding new services through MySB you should update to the latest 7.9.1 nightly. Otherwise I don't think so, I don't think there are new features --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] HELP- Upgrading to 7.9.0 official totally destroyed soundquality

2017-03-27 Thread pippin
kidstypike wrote: > Whilst LMS is scanning, replaygain doesn't work. What effect does that have? Does it get louder or less loud? Wouldn't replay gain usually reduce volume? --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Plugin guide or add on apps?

2017-03-15 Thread pippin
Have a look at the "Playlist Manager" plugin --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, at penguinlovesmusic.com *New: iPeng 9, the Universal App for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch*

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] piCoreplayer and "my apps"

2017-03-13 Thread pippin
Which LMS version is this? I think older versions never updated the DNS entries but 7.9 should and should retry to contact MySB --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, at

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Logitech Media Server 7.9 is out!

2017-03-13 Thread pippin
Thanks, Michael, this will help so much with telling people what to use. And hopefully the NAS people will start to use it, too, instead of old 7.9 nightlies --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Playlist edit command is slower then playlist add command with large playlists

2017-03-10 Thread pippin
Adding to the current playlist is a simple database operation. A stores playlist means writing to a file and probably also scanning that file afterwards and updating the playlist in the database --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] LMS 7.8 lame process using a lot of CPU on QNAP 219

2017-03-06 Thread pippin
There's also some fixed-point alternate encoder for MP3 for low-powerful devices, I think the wiki has instructions for installing it, probably for pogpplug er al. Will have lower quality, though --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] How to reduce scanning time

2017-03-03 Thread pippin
But it still searches for the ones it hasn't found, which can take a while, too. --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, at penguinlovesmusic.com *New: iPeng 9, the Universal App for

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] How to reduce scanning time

2017-03-02 Thread pippin
jfo wrote: > It's late Feb version of 7.9. My library is about 1300 CD's, all FLAC, > and 100% have art and all basic tags. I also use the M info plugin, > with this option... > Well, as discussed above, 7.9 is _way_ faster than 7.8.1 > > -Only download pictures for main artists, but not all

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] How to reduce scanning time

2017-03-02 Thread pippin
With LMS 7.8.1? BTW: it also depends on how much other stuff is in the library path. I have a lot of artwork and metadata there that also gets scanned. And I use Music Information which also searches for artist and album artwork online, these scan phases take up more than half of the time ---

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] How to reduce scanning time

2017-03-02 Thread pippin
d6jg wrote: > I have a similar setup and similar sized library. 45 mins isn't at all > unreasonable for a full clear & rescan Clear takes much longer for me. More like two hours. --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Spotify Lossless streaming being trialled now.

2017-03-02 Thread pippin
My comment was about the technical integration part. There have been certain things Spotify has been telling people but so far they have not yet materialized as originally announced, let's see how this evolves. There are more users than only the (not so few) Squeezebox users who rely on

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Spotify Lossless streaming being trialled now.

2017-03-01 Thread pippin
Let's see how this evolves over the year... --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, at penguinlovesmusic.com *New: iPeng 9, the Universal App for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch*

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] How to reduce scanning time

2017-03-01 Thread pippin
For a full "look for new and changed music" run, that is. Only scanning playlists can be faster if you don't have too many --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, at penguinlovesmusic.com

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] How to reduce scanning time

2017-03-01 Thread pippin
You could do a playlist-only scan --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, at penguinlovesmusic.com *New: iPeng 9, the Universal App for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch*

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Streaming Remote FLAC > PCM & Local 24/192

2017-02-26 Thread pippin
What I mean is "tell the DAC that the stream it receives is DSD, not PCM". And of course it's a bitstream, however it's packed, PCM I'd also a bitstream, just using a different encoding --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Streaming Remote FLAC > PCM & Local 24/192

2017-02-26 Thread pippin
marcoc1712 wrote: > You (the user) could choose between supporte formars. At the moment DSF > or DFF, but SOX is adding formats, then you could choose also the new > ones, provvided are supportet by the client and communicated via > slimproto. > Ah, so you configure this in the plugin,

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Streaming Remote FLAC > PCM & Local 24/192

2017-02-26 Thread pippin
marcoc1712 wrote: > LMS via C-3PO plugin is sending DSF or DFF to the player. > But how do you know which? I mean... if you resample to DSD you have to know the output format, don't you? Is that normally DSF then? > > They are not LMS native" they are so called "native", probably starting >

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Streaming Remote FLAC > PCM & Local 24/192

2017-02-25 Thread pippin
I want to support native DSD in iOS. How do you know the DAC's capability? --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, at penguinlovesmusic.com *New: iPeng 9, the Universal App for iPhone,

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Streaming Remote FLAC > PCM & Local 24/192

2017-02-25 Thread pippin
What format do you stream DSD in? --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, at penguinlovesmusic.com *New: iPeng 9, the Universal App for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch*

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Streaming Remote FLAC > PCM & Local 24/192

2017-02-25 Thread pippin
marcoc1712 wrote: > That's exacltly why I wrote C-3PO plugin: becouse was already feasible > in LMS 'as is' but somehow complicated, with the plugin I hope to just > make it easier. > > Don't like it? dont' use it. But it works. But does that work with SBs, too, or only with SqueezeLite-R2?

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Streaming Remote FLAC > PCM & Local 24/192

2017-02-25 Thread pippin
marcoc1712 wrote: > > > I agree Tweeking dac and speakers is easier, but what you lost at the > sourse is lost... no matter how much you tweek speakers and dac. Exactly my point. If your music plays at wrong speed or cuts out or doesn't play at all, no speaker will ever correct that ---

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Streaming Remote FLAC > PCM & Local 24/192

2017-02-25 Thread pippin
marcoc1712 wrote: > That's an old story... > We could discuss it once again or admit that someone is feeling better > with wav, as I do with all of my players (classic, duet, SB+ and > squeezelite on various hw and OS) and that's why I wrote squeezelite-R2 > and C-3PO. > > Flac is indeed very

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Open music folder from plugin or CLI?

2017-02-14 Thread pippin
Can KidsPlay display the menu if you request it from the CLI? Michael, for musicfolder your don't need to use "browselibrary" to get a menu, just adding menu:1 or menu:musicfolder to the musicfolder CLI command will do. The question is whether you can then get the Radio to process it. ---

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Can playlists have their own artwork?

2017-02-14 Thread pippin
Ah, I need to read better... Ok, that's probably a pretty obscure use case for most users indeed --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, at penguinlovesmusic.com *New: iPeng 9, the

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Streaming Remote FLAC > PCM & Local 24/192

2017-02-14 Thread pippin
Well, you could try to find one of those other threads where they discussed the issue to see whether there is a workaround. What kind of system is that? I mean... FLAC is such a low-impact codec that you have to do a lot wrong in your system or software design to make it have any impact on

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Streaming Remote FLAC > PCM & Local 24/192

2017-02-13 Thread pippin
Hm, wait. In this case you should be able to just set both FLAC and PCM to native and neither should be converted. That way your WAV files get streamed as PCM and Qobuz as FLAC --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Streaming Remote FLAC > PCM & Local 24/192

2017-02-13 Thread pippin
There are several threads on the FLAC-to-PCM thing for streams here in the forum because it comes up from time to time. I think phillipe44 has found some workaround for his plugins (the bridging plugins) where he needed the capability because UPnP requires a PCM stream to be available but I

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Open music folder from plugin or CLI?

2017-02-13 Thread pippin
You are right. In this case that should work. musicfolder url:[your URL] menu:1 Should then give you what you want --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, at penguinlovesmusic.com *New:

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Streaming Remote FLAC > PCM & Local 24/192

2017-02-13 Thread pippin
bpa wrote: > OP says "In my system I find that PCM sounds better than flac.". > I got that. But he has wrong pitch on some tracks, Qobuz doesn't play at all, that's the price for using PCM. Better get a system that can properly handle FLAC if the sound is so bad. > > What do you mean by

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Open music folder from plugin or CLI?

2017-02-13 Thread pippin
The problem is that your folder's ID might change with every clear and rescan of the library. --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, at penguinlovesmusic.com *New: iPeng 9, the Universal

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Streaming Remote FLAC > PCM & Local 24/192

2017-02-13 Thread pippin
LMS doesn't support transcoding to PCM for remote tracks. Your playback-pitch problem is also a typical PCM issue due to the lack of format information. Use FLAC. --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Feed and control Digital radio intosqueezebox ecosystem?

2016-12-13 Thread pippin
It hadn't occurred to me that there would be any stations that are available on DAB but not as online streams. With the homeopathic prevalence of DAB devices outside the U.K. and given the cost of DAB, why would any station do this? And since you can stream with any quality you want over the

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Problem with Latest Nightly and Android Squeezer

2016-11-20 Thread pippin
OK, you should probably still notify Michael or file a bug so that it gets fixed. Most apps probably don't rely on this playerindex (iPeng certainly doesn't ) but some still might. I think the change was probably accidental, what Michael was doing was adding the modelname and firmware fields upon

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Alexa and LMS - new lease of life?

2016-11-18 Thread pippin
Yea, I mean there's never something like perfect security. Generally I think if you open a port it will be hard to protect the system against a hacker directly attacking your system in all cases. However, that's not the most common scenario (this is a high effort activity, want to have some

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Alexa and LMS - new lease of life?

2016-11-18 Thread pippin
meep wrote: > A quick update; > > I've managed to get a basic proxy implementation built into my plugin. > This means that traffic from the skill will now come directly to the > plugin and can be assessed there to ensure its legitimate. From there, > commands are forwarded on to the LMS. This

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Multiple instances of LMS on same network?

2016-11-15 Thread pippin
Processing power should never be an issue for FLAC DEcoding. Now... resampling, that's something else and for HD stuff bandwidth can be an issue. --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App,

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