"Although, the ability to use the replaygain value from slimserver (6.2) as a variable in convert.conf, I still think might be useful, if it's possible. Is there someplace to look in the documentation for a list of those variables?"
I was hoping to do this exact thing! I want to be able to plug the replaygain value in slimserver into the --scale option of LAME while transcoding. This way I would get replaygained mp3 streams from slimsever independent of file type as long as the source files replaygain tags are recognized by slimserver. However I have not seen a response to my previous posts on the subject so I do not know if this is even possible, Steven On 10/22/05, mlmurray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > mlmurray Wrote: > > I have a SqueezeBox 1, thus when I listen to an *.ogg file it must > > either be converted to wav or mp3 format in order to be played. > > > > I have quite a few files in ogg format and I have tagged them all using > > vorbisgain to generate the appropriate replaygain tags. Slimserver > > reads these tags fine in the web interface, but, of course, when sox or > > oggdec decodes them it ignores the replaygain tags so I'm out of luck > > with that. > > > > I did note that sox has a -v (volume) option, that I think can be set > > using the replaygain value in dB. I'm wondering if there is a variable > > available to be used in convert.conf for setting the -v option (you > > know, like $FILE$ or $QUALITY$ or $BITRATE$)? I was hoping for > > something like $GAIN$. > > > > On a side note, I was using mplayer to decode *.oggs using the > > following line in slimserver-convert.conf: > > > > Code: > -------------------- > > > [mplayer] -novideo -ao pcm:file=/dev/fd/4 $FILE$ 4>&1 1>/dev/null > -------------------- > > > > > Alas, since I've upgrade Ubuntu linux to Breezy (5.10), this hasn't > > been working. It looks like only root can write to /dev/fd/4 now and > > the song stops playing just a few (maybe 10) seconds into the song. I > > wouldn't mind getting this working again, but I'd also like to get > > replaygain support in sox since it is the default program to > > transcode ogg files in slimserver. > > > > I would appreciate any ideas and guidance. > > > > Replying to my own post... Okay, it looks like a confluence of changes > conspired to confound me, but I think I've sorted though it. > > The changes? > > I updated mplayer from 1.0pre6 to 1.0pre7 so, much of the time, I just > had the slimserver-convert.conf line wrong. > > I had updated Ubuntu Hoary to Breezy and somehow not all of the perl > modules that I had installed previously came accross, so when I started > slimserver, it asked me to install several, which I did as a regular > user (not root) using the built-in utility (pretty slick, actually). > The fact that they were not installed as root, I think caused the > problem with not being able to write to /dev/fd/4. > > I subsequently installed the afore mentioned perl modules "normally", > throught apt-get. Once I did this, and got rid of the modules > slimserver had download for me, things started working fine again. > Well, with one exception. Apparantly, my distribution's version of > DBI.pm (perl 5.8.7) conflicts with the version that comes with > Slimserver, so I had to rename the slimserver version (DBI.pm.old). > > I realize most of these problems were brought on through upgrading an > my own meddling, but I thought it important to post the results in case > someone else encounters similar problems and goes searching through > these forums for an answer. > > Although, the ability to use the replaygain value from slimserver (6.2) > as a variable in convert.conf, I still think might be useful, if it's > possible. Is there someplace to look in the documentation for a list > of those variables? > > > -- > mlmurray > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com > http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
