typecrazy789 wrote: > I've posted several times (and had a couple of messages privately with > the author) about my trying to get LMS and the SqrSoft crossfader > plug-ins working together via the Bridge. I've been trying to solve this > riddle for months and months now. > > I finally gave up on Foobar2k because that version won't crossfade > anything shorter than :12. > > Now, I'm using MediaMonkey5 running SqrSoft version 1.72. And it works > (and works well) if I set the HTTP mode to fixed, and transcode to mp3 - > nothing else works. All my files are FLAC and if I try to use FLAC the > files all cut off substantially early. > > But the MP3 transcoding eventually fails sometimes after two hours or > longer...at some point a track will play, and then LMS will play beyond > the end of the track and the time remaining will keep advancing beyond > the actual end time of the track. Audio stops as LMS can't advance to > the next track. > > I'm not sure if this is a memory issue with the plug-in; I'm running a > 64-bit computer and this is an old, 32-bit plug-in so I've wondered if > that might be my issue. > > But too, I'm wondering if being able to use No Length would fix this, > but again I can't get it to work...a single track playing results in the > above behavior, with the track artificially adding up time at the end > and not advancing. Chunked will play for a few seconds and then the > audio disappears, and If Known does nothing. > > I should mention too that I have seen over and over it fail on songs > just under two minutes...a 1:57 or 1:58 is almost a guarantee. Which > makes me think it might be a buffer issue, but if so, I can't find it. > > Any help is greatly appreciated!
It is not a memory-issue related to 32/64 bits. At this stage I'd recommend - transcode to pcm - only allow "raw" for "PCM format" (can try wav, but it it works, raw is much better) - use "if known" for lenght This is what will be the closest to a "classical" UPnP playback. Remember that the most difficulty I have to handle is that in "classical" streaming, the file size is known by the source and sent with the HTTP response to the player. Unfortunately, in the case of a bridge, the size of the file is unkown as LMS cannot tell. By transcoding to pcm, the bridge is capable of estimating/calculating the file size from the duration. To be clear, providing the size in the HTTP is *absolutely not* mandatory in HTTP spec, but unfortunately there are a lot of bad quality HTTP and/or UPnP stacks that assume it is always there. LMS 8.2 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
