Re: [slim] Darko Audio's recent video tribute to the Squeezebox (GOAT)
bengaldave wrote: > Hey thats interesting. Where can one see the download count? Thats not the LMS download count. Its the number of new users registering for my Alexa skills which I can see in the Amazon logs. philchillbill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=68920 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=117071 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Darko Audio's recent video tribute to the Squeezebox (GOAT)
I think maybe the appearance of Darko's GOAT review for LMS explains the 5x increase in daily installs of MediaServer and LMS-lite over the past month or so. I was wondering where all the sudden interest was coming from :rolleyes: philchillbill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=68920 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=117071 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Testers wanted
Jim, Looks like you can now list Juke Radio yourself without needing a custom skill: https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/blogs/alexa/alexa-skills-kit/2021/12/a-new-code-free-way-to-onboard-your-radio-station-on-to-alexa philchillbill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=68920 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=115087 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Recommendations for kitchen
If you want a screen then an Amazon Echo Show combined with the MediaServer Alexa skill will allow you to play music sourced from LMS via the Echo. You can then also play stuff like TuneIn or Spotify without involving LMS at all. And you get the advantage of being able to use it for all other Alexa tasks like viewing recipes (handy in the kitchen). Might be worth considering if you can forego the pushbutton favorite-selection you mentioned. philchillbill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=68920 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=115478 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Testers wanted
Jim, If you want to take user-requests for Juke Radio, I can easily add an intent to the skill to allow the user to say e.g. User: "Alexa, ask Juke Radio to make a request" Echo: "What would you like to suggest?" User: "Night Moves, by Bob Seger" or "more Pink Floyd" or "less Justin Bieber" etc Echo: "Okay. Night Moves by Bob Seger will be suggested for future playback on Juke Radio. Thanks for your submission!" I'd POST the suggestion to a https API endpoint of your choice for you to do with as you please. Just an idea I came across on Upwork. Simple to implement and adds value to having a skill for the station over listening by other means. Question is if you want the overhead/burden of giving listeners a voice? philchillbill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=68920 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=115087 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Testers wanted
It's rather quiet here. Any status update for us, Jim? philchillbill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=68920 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=115087 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Outside speakers wireless fed by lms and sync possible?
lssartin wrote: > My booms (2) work great unless I move them, the power supplies require > a jiggle for 10 minutes to come alive and stay good unless moved or > vibrated. That's usually an easy fix. The 'jiggle' problem is usually that the male center pin on the boom itself no longer mates nicely with the female center V-groove on the power adapter. While they're unplugged from the mains, pinch the outside of the V-shaped female center of the power plug a fraction with a tweezers. Maybe that will solve your entire dilemma if the Booms become portable again. philchillbill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=68920 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=115126 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Testers wanted
35687 Just so you know, Echos with screens will show the cover-art and metadata when you ask what's playing currently. Plus, it's the *FLAC *variant that plays natively on the Echo so it sounds as good as it gets on the newer models :cool: It's zero setup other than just selecting the skill in the Alexa app (when invited). Do Jim a favour and give it a try ! +---+ |Filename: nowplaying.jpg | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=35687| +---+ philchillbill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=68920 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=115087 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Testers wanted
d6jg wrote: > Thats absolutely great Phil. Ill pm you in a minute. > > However the Juke reference in the name is nothing to do with a > Jukebox. Its named after my Black Labrador dog who himself is so named > after Little Walters classic blues harmonica instrumental called Juke. > Youll know it when you hear it. > > The station logo is at https://jukeradio.double6.net/img/station.png Your email is now whitelisted so you should get the invite automatically. I can add 499 more testers :D so just PM me or send an email to p...@smartskills.tech if anybody else on here or family/friends want an invite. I think after you're whitelisted it can even be installed just by saying "Alexa, open Juke Radio" without having to visit the app. And of course there's no account linking. Let me know what you think. p.s. It's just a P.O.C. so I'll leave the logo as is for now philchillbill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=68920 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=115087 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Testers wanted
35656 I couldn't resist creating a beta skill for this :cool: It streams the 'FLAC in OGG container version' to the Echo for LOSSLESS playback (no transcoding). A jukebox background image shows on Echos with screens and there's even a cute logo, but no metadata is displayed on Echos with screens. If you want to give it a try, send me a PM with your* Amazon account* email address and I can add you so you'll get an invite from Amazon. After installing, it's just "Alexa, open Juke Radio". Afterwards, "Alexa, stop" will shut it down again. p.s. if you're a subscribed user of mediaserver there's no need to use this beta instead just add the stream to your favorites and stream as usual. +---+ |Filename: jukeradio-sml.png| |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=35656| +---+ philchillbill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=68920 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=115087 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Testers wanted
Do you want an Alexa skill for this? No commands, just open Juke Radio? philchillbill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=68920 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=115087 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Security risks of old Squeezeboxes(?)
gordonb3 wrote: > That's all hypothetical. I mean, how many SBs are really still out > there? Would there really be someone thinking it might be worth while to > reprogram e.g. a Tuya device to find and manipulate SBs through their > exposed ports? Oh sure. But never say never. The world is full of wackos (me, for instance :cool:). Could also be a generic search for anything running BusyBox on the LAN. philchillbill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=68920 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=115017 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Security risks of old Squeezeboxes(?)
gordonb3 wrote: > As some already responded, your SBs sit in a private network. The point > about this is not so much the firewall that sits between you and the > dangerous internet, but that no public router knows how to direct > traffic from any random machine on the internet towards any address on > your private LAN. > > No this does not mean that you are completely safe, but what it does > mean is that a hacker will have to do James Bond stuff to find out your > network details and I would dare question whether you are worth so much > trouble - not meant in any offensive way of course. The methods that > hackers use to get access to devices owned by random people are roughly > the following: > > > - you opening a web page that contains malware - you opening an email that contains executable code inline > (usually a screen saver file) - you opening an email attachment that includes a malicious macro > to be executed by the associated application > > > > > If you are something of a hobbyist the following methods may apply as > well: > > > - you opening port 25 on your firewall to expose an email server - you opening web ports on your firewall to expose a web server > with some kind of preprocessor capability (PHP, Java, Perl) allowing > random code injection - you opening the SSH port on your firewall > > > > > None of this would ever apply to your SBs. For those to load something > malicious someone would first have to hack your entire network > topology to redirect traffic from your SB away from its intended > target, towards a machine that is controlled by the hacker. Again way > too much trouble for what this type of hacker wants to accomplish, > which is really nothing else than sending spam, finding other > vulnerable machines and occasionally organizing so-called Denial of > Service attacks. > > > All of this said I still run my SB devices in a separate VLAN as I > found they are extremely loud, sending broadcasts even at a higher > rate than Apple devices do and I don't really need my workstation to > be constantly distracted from the processes I want it to run by > investigating whether it should act on those broadcasts. But dont forget that the Chinese baby monitor or IP cam you bought and connected up on your LAN is constantly phoning home to pick up potential malware. The attacker doesnt have to target your home specifically. Targeting the manufacturers website is a single point of attention for a hacker. If successful, the millions of IOT devices phoning home will pick up the malware with no need for a targeted attack on anybody specific. The Chinese use off the shelf IOT stacks they dont necessarily understand too well and many of those are riddled with vulnerabilities. philchillbill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=68920 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=115017 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Security risks of old Squeezeboxes(?)
jablonski wrote: > Thanks a lot for your replies. The main trigger for my concern are the > frequent warnings in the media about smart home appliances (like > dishwashers with wifi) that are often not updated, so that unpatched > weaknesses can be exploited by hackers who then can enter your home > network and sniff out what you're doing on your other devices, such as > phone and computer. > So my assumption was that eventually in every device that is longer on > the market, weaknesses may be discovered and exploited. The same also > applies for computers and phones, of course. But your testing puts my > mind at ease a little, awesome that you did that, philchillbill. Here's a link to where I published that script in the Domoticz Wiki in 2017: https://www.domoticz.com/wiki/Logitech_Media_Server#Using_Ambient_Light_Sensor_in_SB-Radio_and_SB-Touch One more thing I'd add is that firewalls give people a false sense of security. People also think if you don't open any ports in your router, you're safe. However, any device already inside your LAN can 'phone home' without being blocked and e.g. most modern TVs or Smart Thermostats and even Philips HUE do that. After you install them, they constantly contact their manufacturers web portals for all kinds of things like checking for updates or uploading your viewing habits data. -Outward- traffic from your LAN is always allowed, unless you set up a very restrictive firewalling regime. The 'danger' is that bugs or backdoors in these newer devices talking regularly to the cloud inadvertently retrieve compromised payloads which can then run inside your LAN and can snoop around for other (older) devices to infect. When that new device gets patched (because it is still being updated by the manufacturer) the older device -will- stay infected because it never gets updates to clean out the malware. Not worth sleepless nights, but just something to keep in the back of your mind :D philchillbill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=68920 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=115017 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Security risks of old Squeezeboxes(?)
A few years ago, I wrote a shell script that I installed on my SB-Radio to read out its internal light sensor and post that data to Domoticz in a 5-second CRON. I could do that by SSHing into the Radio and by knowing its a Linux-based device, I could find my way around on its file system pretty quickly. When my script is running, it in no way changes the behavior of the SBR from a users perspective. That did make me very aware of what happens when a device on your local LAN is compromised to become part of a botnet. My code wasnt malicious and I wrote it myself, but what if? To get in to the SBR, you have to navigate the menu structure in the players GUI and enable SSH. In theory you need physical access to the player to do that. But of course if theres a zero-day in the BusyBox then who knows The chances are very, very, very small. But never, ever, say never. philchillbill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=68920 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=115017 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] New Logitech Squeezebox 2020 Edition
nervoteso wrote: > is it easier than chromeclast streaming from nas with this skill? ii > tried chromeclast on google home and it was full of problems Try it for 7 days for free. Install is 2 mins. philchillbill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=68920 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111449 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] LMS Plugin Development
Sorry to be late to the party, but if this plug-in is only for your own use in your setup, it might be easier to just ssh into the SBR and run a shell script on it on a cron schedule to turn your amp on/off together with the player. See my post from a few years ago on the Domoticz forum. It reads the Lux sensor in the SBR and updates Domoticz accordingly. Not quite your application but might give you some ideas to push from the SBR instead of push from LMS. https://www.domoticz.com/wiki/Logitech_Media_Server#Using_Ambient_Light_Sensor_in_SB-Radio_and_SB-Touch philchillbill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=68920 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=114585 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] New Logitech Squeezebox 2020 Edition
Thats an Amazon limitation, not mine [emoji854] philchillbill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=68920 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111449 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] New Logitech Squeezebox 2020 Edition
But the skill is simple to install in 2 mins and you can play with it to see what you think [emoji41] philchillbill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=68920 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111449 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] New Logitech Squeezebox 2020 Edition
It appears as a player LMS while playing. Not when offline. The reason is that playback must be initiated by voice so having a permanent pseudo player makes no sense. No plugins are needed - just try a Stream command and the player will magically appear. philchillbill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=68920 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111449 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] New Logitech Squeezebox 2020 Edition
nervoteso wrote: > really? is iot possible to stream my squeezebox music stored on nas on > alexa? is ity possible on google home? No idea about Google Home, but for Alexa see https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?111016-Announce-MediaServer-*certified*-Alexa-skill-for-LMS or https://mediaserver.smartskills.tech. philchillbill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=68920 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111449 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Remote streaming LMS to the car
34707 I just had a really wide grin on my face :cool: The Amazon Echo 'Auto' I bought a year ago is finally supported in Europe so I set it up in the car just now. Told MediaServer to "Stream something by Snow Patrol" and Alexa obliged with a random playlist of 512 tracks. The tortuous path: From my LMS server at home --> Ethernet --> Amazon Cloud --> 4G connection --> iPhone --> Bluetooth --> Car audio Audio was as good as Bluetooth can be. Brings a new dimension to handsfree in the car :rolleyes: +---+ |Filename: alexa_auto.jpg | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=34707| +---+ philchillbill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=68920 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=114596 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Future of codecs in LMS
bpa wrote: > I think it may be necessary to characterise the "http capable client" a > bit better ? My original request to Philippe to take a look at the possibilities of a lossless stream had a very specific http-client target in mind: Amazon Echo endpoints. While Echos could already handle HD/lossless streams from e.g. Amazon HD, indie skills not rooted in big corporate had no access to an interface to point an Echo at a lossless stream. That changed recently, meaning that my MediaServer skill could now send lossless audio from LMS to Echos if I had a /stream.flac route. Via Paul Webster's trick of having the skill create a request-specific PLS file at a remote https endpoint, the Echo downloads the PLS which has a playable entry "http://lmsip:9000/stream.mp3?player=Alexa; on the user's LAN. The idea is to have a lossless streaming equivalent available so that Amazon Echos become HD-capable players for LMS users. philchillbill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=68920 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=114590 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Retrieving cover art via CLI
d6jg wrote: > Bear in mind the cache reference will change on a clear and rescan Yes, but that's not an issue as I'm retrieving the current coverid with the tags:c parameter and not caching it myself so it's OK for it to be mutable. philchillbill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=68920 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=114442 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Retrieving cover art via CLI
Great - makes life a lot easier if it can be pulled using cover.jpg always. Thanks guys. philchillbill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=68920 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=114442 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Retrieving cover art via CLI
The documentation for the CLI states as follows: > > The HTTP server can return cover art for songs using the track ID as > returned by the CLI functions. If no cover art exists for the given > song, the server returns special "no artwork" image. Please refer to the > Artwork Setup documentation for more details on artwork management in > Logitech Media Server. Use the following URL: > http://:/music//*cover.jpg* > where: > is the ip address or name of the server. > is the HTTP port of the server (not the same as the CLI port). > is the track ID as returned by the CLI functions. > In addition, there is a shortcut URL to return the artwork of the > currently playing song for a player: > > http://:/music/current/*cover.jpg*?player= > where: > is the ip address or name of the server. > is the HTTP port of the server (not the same as the CLI port). > is the unique identifier for the player, as above. If > omitted, the server will use a random player. > Should the file always be called cover.jpg or are other names and/or extensions possible? I know many people use folder.jpg - does this get mapped to cover.jpg for this call or would it remain as folder.jpg? Is a .png extension allowed? philchillbill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=68920 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=114442 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Multiple libaries?
Not intending to hijack the thread, but would library support in MediaServer be useful? List my libraries... Select default library... How would that be used in practice? Set an overall default library, one per player, one per Echo... ? philchillbill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=68920 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=114396 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Spontaneous volume reduction
chill wrote: > Out of interest, does Alexa respond in that sort of situation? I know > there'd be feedback if she did, so I know she's not the cause of this > volume issue. But on my iPhone for instance, I'm unable to play a video > that includes me saying 'Hey Siri', because Siri will immediately > interrupt the video and try and do whatever she heard in the video. Yes she does respond to recordings mentioning her name (unless you have enabled the option to only respond to your voice, but then you have to train her). By the way, if you did suspect it was Alexa you could enable logging in ngrok and see every incoming jsonrpc POST through your tunnel. The "inspect: false" in your .yml file inhibits this but if you either remove that line or change it to 'true' then in the :4040 web interface for ngrok you can see all the traffic in real time. p.s. Where's the denial that you would ever, ever listen to anything by Justin Bieber? :rolleyes: philchillbill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=68920 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=114230 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Spontaneous volume reduction
chill wrote: > Ah, ok - I don't have any upnp players. My two pCPs both have the > latest Squeezelite which I believe was released to fix an issue with > inverted audio and the new balance control. I'm using neither of those > options, and I believe my volume problem pre-dates that new version of > Squeezelite. For completeness, neither of the Pis is actually audible, > since I've temporarily switched inputs on my main amp to use the DAC32, > and the other one plays through the TV only if I'm on the right channel. > But both instances of Squeezelite are 'on' and synced. > > Wracking my brain for other 'new' things that might be responsible. I'm > loathe to fling any more wild accusations around, as I may have done > with the DAC32 (given that @the_arm doesn't have one)! I've had an Echo > dot running philchillbill's Alexa skills for a while now, but the > problem started quite a long time after I first started using that. And > I'm pretty sure I haven't been inadvertently operating the volume > buttons on my iPhone that has iPeng running in the background (and I've > been using iPeng for so long that this new problem is not likely to have > anything to do with it). At the times of the volume dips, are you by any chance listening to Justin Biebers new single Alexa, turn the volume down baby? [emoji23] philchillbill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=68920 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=114230 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] RasPI with Display compared to iPad
d6jg wrote: > But having told Alexa to play Abacab by Genesis you cant tell her to > browse your library for something suitable to play afterwards. Like most > women her knowledge of popular music from 1950s to date seems to be > wanting in many areas. Prog rock being a significant lacking :) > > Seriously your skill is great for the way some people use LMS but not at > all for the way others use it. But you can tell her to play So by Peter Gabriel if that comes to mind. Or Far from the Maddening Crowds by Chicane. Or... Voice is not a perusal paradigm. You know what you want? Ask for it. No clue? Have a think or consult a source of inspiration. Which certainly can be a touchscreen. But then youd skip using voice to select and just use the paradigm at hand. philchillbill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=68920 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=114136 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] RasPI with Display compared to iPad
Heuer wrote: > In my experience voice is great at switching things on and off (lights > ,TV, gas fire, gate, garage door, timers etc) but trying to adjust > brightness, volume, channels or anything complicated is a chore. Amazon > are now offering a button to replace voice so we are back to square one! A lot of companies with Alexa support do it as a tick the box effort which is a shame. My LG OLED from 2018 is too old for Alexa from LG itself but I have my own skill for it. I can ask to select a channel by name, e.g Alexa, set the TV to CNN while the official skill for newer sets can only do channel selection by number which is not the reason humanity invented voice control. For LMS, Alexa, ask MediaServer to play the album Abacab by Genesis is not that difficult to remember and just works. Not that different from Dearest, tell the milkman we need some clotted cream today ... [emoji23] philchillbill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=68920 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=114136 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] RasPI with Display compared to iPad
I use Alexa to control LMS probably 80% of the time and iPeng for the remaining 20%. But I have Echos in every room where I have SBs so a 1:1 relationship makes that pretty easy. They then double up to control all the other smart stuff in my house. I have my own skills for everything in the house that the original manufacturer has no solution for. By the end of next week, my DeLonghi espresso machine will be on that list too. Once you embrace voice it becomes addictive... philchillbill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=68920 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=114136 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] New Music on LMS compared to ozher systems like (air)(sub)sonic
mamema wrote: > huuuh i'm a audiophile i'm not using replay gain. As an audiophile, I presume you know that the music will sound better if you use all lowercase letters in your tags? philchillbill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=68920 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=114107 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Walk with me
It's now live after Amazon certified the voice-model changes. The new command goes by the keyword 'transpose'. When you say "Alexa, transpose Kitchen and Library players" the now-playing playlist queue/timestamp and player-volume levels are swapped between the players in question. philchillbill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=68920 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103738 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Spotify to offer Lossless Streaming
mcduman wrote: > hi philchillbill, > > i remember that even sony and philips recognized the shortcomings of > the cd format and went on to introduce the sacd. why do you think that > happened? > > anyways, i do not need to mention that i will upgrade to spotify hi-fi > when it is available. i have respect for those who find happiness with > 320k or lower, too. They only went on to do SACD for marketing reasons, not technical. If people will buy bottled leprechaun pee then some entrepreneur will bottle it because there are buyers for it. I never understood the fascination with vinyl over CD. Dont people hear the surface noise of the needle in the groove? The noise floor is abysmally high with vinyl. But the golden ears accept that as non-disturbing. Makes one wonder... philchillbill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=68920 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=114009 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Spotify to offer Lossless Streaming
mcduman wrote: > actually, everything about cd format was kind of arbitrary in order to > fit Beethoven's 9th in one single portable cd. > (https://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/why-is-a-cd-74-minutes/). it > could have been 14 or 20 bits depending on how much fit in one cd. i am > sure all the engineers from sony and philips from those days are > surprised that whatever they came up with 40 years ago are still the > high watermark of audio technology today. i am, for sure. > > more of every thing in technology from cpu power to screen resolution is > good, whether you need it or not. but when it comes to audio resolution, > less is good. how can this be true? I worked as an engineer at Philips CD Lab from 1985-1990 and I can reassure you that the 74 minutes requirement only directed the choice for the diameter of the disc (otherwise it would have been a bit smaller to only handle 60mins of audio like a C60 cassette tape). The desire to comfortably encode frequencies audible to humans was what drove the choice for bit-depth and sampling rates, with a little extra headroom for good measure. The bits/sec put on the actual disc is substantially higher due to clever techniques like interleaving data and adding redundancy checksums and such so that errors due to normal scratches can be completely eradicated. Its not that less is good, its that enough is enough. Armstrong didnt have to shave himself the morning he stepped on the moon because we couldnt see his stubble from earth when looking up at the moon with our naked eyes anyway... philchillbill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=68920 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=114009 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Walk with me
d6jg wrote: > You can achieve a "swap" if you have a third player to act as a > temporary place to put a playlist - it doesn't need to be connected to > anything soundwise so could be on LMS Swap is a good idea for the MediaServer skill. I dont need a 3rd player to park as I can just save the playlist to a temp file and reload it. Ill put it on my list. philchillbill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=68920 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103738 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Building a house: what would you do for whole-house audio?
Apesbrain wrote: > For those rooms where I plan to have proper hi-fi equipment, I'd still > use a Squeezebox or Raspberry Pi emulator but for all the other rooms in > my house, I might use Google or Amazon devices. It's amazing the first > time you say, "Ok Google, play WCRB" or "Ok Google, who played bass on > Kind of Blue?" For casual listening, the fidelity is fine. And, when > desired, any of the Google devices can easily become LMS playback points > via the "Chromecast bridge" plugin. And the Amazon devices can become LMS playback points without even needing a plugin ... just by using the MediaServer skill. philchillbill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=68920 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=113300 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Loadtracks random order without player shuffle
If I use the jsonrpc command ['playlist', 'loadtracks', 'contributor.namesearch="Coldplay"'] it will always load all the matching tracks in the same order. Is there any way to randomize the order of the loaded tracks? Of course I can enable shuffle but that's a player-level setting rather than playlist-level, meaning it will remain enabled for subsequent commands unless I turn it off. That's not always desired. Would be nice if there was an additional parameter like 'randomize:1' or some such. philchillbill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=68920 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=112719 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] NVMe drive
I have my music on a 2TB Samsung QVO series SSD which is not NVMe and is probably actually the slowest current-generation SSD available. It's still way, way faster than a spinning disk. QVO offers the best bang for the buck in 2TB capacity. Overkill, sure. Nice, oh yeah ! philchillbill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=68920 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=112650 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Double Metaphone based library search
mherger wrote: > I could imagine that FTS and "fuzzy" search could result in a lot of > false positives. Yes, it very likely would. I was envisaging using this as a fallback mechanism - first do a 'normal' text search and if that returns nothing then do a DM search to get back something that I can parse with the FUSEjs library to make sense of the likely falsies. I already use FUSEjs but I need to feed it more data :) philchillbill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=68920 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=112531 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Double Metaphone based library search
One of the issues I face in developing the Alexa skills for LMS is that I have to search your library -textually- based on the speech-to-text of what Alexa thinks she -heard-. This can be problematic with similar-sounding words like pair/pear, hear/here, knot/not, ate/eight, flour/flower, etc. I can only fuzzy match / post-process the returned values if the searched term is among the search results. Of course a search for a song with -flower- in the title will not return a song with -flour- - end of story. Asking Alexa again will not help because she will hear the same thing every time and return the same search-for text. A potential workaround for this would be to have a plugin that extends the scanning process to add columns to the database that contain computed *Double Metaphone* (DM) values for tags. There is a CPAN lib for DM and all it does is produce a text mapping from a word to something that sounds like the word according to pre-defined rules. Some examples: Flour, flower -> FLR Not, Knot -> NT Hear, Here -> HR Ate, Eight -> AT So the song title 'True Colors' would become TRKL, but so would Tru Colors, True Colours and even Trew Cullers. This means that I can match based on *sound* of the title rather than spelling and therefore more easily find stuff in your library. With the added benefit that this would work in the GUI interface too and help you find stuff with misspelled tags. Just curious if anybody ever experimented with this kind of thing before? Would the increased DB size and time-to-rescan be an issue at all? philchillbill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=68920 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=112531 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] JSON api search narrowness
mherger wrote: > > When using the JSON api to search through albums, a match is returned > if > > the search term matches *any *tag and not just the ALBUM name tag. > For > > example > > That's only the case if you're using the Fulltext Search plugin. > > > results are returned, but is there any way I can narrow down the > search > > beforehand to indicate that I only want a match if the search string > > matches in the ALBUM tag ? > > No, that's currently not possible. But the idea isn't wrong... I'll take > > a note. > > -- > > Michael Thanks as always, Michael philchillbill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=68920 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=112521 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[slim] JSON api search narrowness
When using the JSON api to search through albums, a match is returned if the search term matches *any *tag and not just the ALBUM name tag. For example ['albums', 0, 100, 'search: "thrillseekers" + "night music"', 'tags:Aal'] will return the Thrillseekers album "By your side (CDM)" that has a song called "By your side (Night Music Edit)" because the TITLE of that song contains "Night Music". Sure I can filter after the results are returned, but is there any way I can narrow down the search beforehand to indicate that I only want a match if the search string matches in the ALBUM tag ? For example, with playlist loading I can narrow down with ['playlist', 'loadtracks', 'track.titlesearch="abacab"="genesis"'] but there does not seem to be a similar syntax for search. Or am I missing something? philchillbill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=68920 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=112521 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] JSON command for webclient creation/deletion?
> > Why would you need to do this anyway? > It has to do with streaming from LMS to an Alexa Echo endpoint. Right now I create that player as something subsequently addressable via JSON by POSTing to an external https LMS server address with '/stream.mp3?player=Alexa' appended. It works, but there would be less latency if I could create it via JSON and the API and not need to go 'external'. I've experimented with client forget but it does not seem to delete this player. philchillbill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=68920 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=112513 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[slim] JSON command for webclient creation/deletion?
When the stream.mp3 endpoint is used, a webclient is automatically created and it shows up as a player in the UI. Is there any JSON api-command to create such a webclient and subsequently delete it? philchillbill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=68920 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=112513 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] New Logitech Squeezebox 2020 Edition
> I don't see a command to "Play XYZ artist" or a specific song. Both commands exist - see the online docs: https://mediaserver.smartskills.tech/commandref/PlaySomethingBy.html#27 https://mediaserver.smartskills.tech/commandref/PlaySong.html#28 philchillbill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=68920 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111449 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] New Logitech Squeezebox 2020 Edition
dmcdayton wrote: > I hate to admit, its not just your kids. I've taken to playing on Echo > for convenience instead of my good system. Siri and Google just SUUUCK > but Alexa has magic juju beans somewhere because it just works. I'm > listening to more music in my kitchen now on an Echo Show because we can > change genres in 2nds from across the room and the sound isn't...bad. You -do- know there's a decent Alexa skill called MediaServer that will control that 'good system' of yours by voice ? And also allow you to stream LMS-sourced songs to that Echo Show if you like... philchillbill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=68920 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111449 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
