sachadog wrote: > Hi Philippe, > > I have come across from my other thread on LMS, as requested. > > On that thread is the settings on the bridge for my system. I attached > a screen print. > > What I have found is that in the previous version, I was using it, as > is. I didn't know about the "flow mode". I had left the settings as > supplied and my system ran and it played music, track by track, no > problems. > > However, when I started to use the "flow" mode in the current version, > the music stutters and stops, on whatever piece of equipment I use, be > it internet radios or my new streaming unit. The radios have a colour > screen and show the album art and artist details etc. With "flow" mode > selected with Flac selected, the music, as I said stutters and stops. > But furthermore, I no longer get the artwork or the artist details. All > I get is a dialogue similar to "Streaming From LMS, Unknown Artist, > Unknown Song and a ? on the screen. When I use the system with my > Yamaha wireless speakers, they dont have the artist details, but the > music stutters and stops. > > Taking the system out of "flow" mode and everything returns to normal. > > Because I have two computers that can supply music to my system, I kept > one computer on the previous version of the plugin and one computer on > the latest version. They both showed the same problems with "flow" mode > selected. > > I consider the plugin is brilliant. It's enabled me to have music in > various places around the house and now my Touch is virtually at end of > life, the plugin has become more important. > > Obviously I have come across a problem that you may know how to sort. I > am an enthusiastic user, but I have my limitations when sorting these > types of problems.
I understand better now. In flow mode, the lack of metadata is normal as the bridge acts like a webradio. So if you want "some" metadata, you must use mp3 as a re-encoding method that will allow "in-band" metadata to be added using icy protocol. The stuttering & stops sounds like an under-CPU or network problem. There is much more CPU required for decoding and then re-encoding the audio and then sending it over wireless can be very bandwidth consuming if you use PCM. I've just tried again on my Sonos device with a Pi4 and flow (with flac) works fine. LMS 8.1.x on Odroid-C4 - *SqueezeAMP!*, 5xRadio, 5xBoom, 2xDuet, 1xTouch, 1xSB3. Sonos PLAY:3, PLAY:5, Marantz NR1603, Foobar2000, ShairPortW, 2xChromecast Audio, Chromecast v1 and v2, Squeezelite on Pi, Yamaha WX-010, AppleTV 4, Airport Express, GGMM E5, RivaArena 1 & 3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ philippe_44's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17261 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103728 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
