Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: WaveInput for Linux
Good to know. I'll set it back to default. Thanks again - it's a thing of beauty for me now that it's working. Spiel1's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=71168 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49584 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: WaveInput for Linux
Got this to work with tee - finally comprehended what you were saying. I did the following: 1. Disabled PCM under Settings/Advanced/Filetypes for WaveInput. 2. Appended | tee /tmp/wavinputrecord.flc to the wavin flc command line. 3. Rebooted LMS and pCP. Verified player operations. 4. Started the WaveInput got proper playback and observed the file being created in the tmp directory. After playing/recording for a while, stopped the plugin, transferred the file over to my Win-10 box, and played it without issues. So I 'm good to go. Many thanks for all the help and the patience in straightening this out for me - I learned a fair amount in going through this process. Spiel1's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=71168 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49584 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: WaveInput for Linux
Here's what the .conf file looks like after my edit:
Code:
#
# wavin
#
wavin pcm * *
# R
[arecord] -d0 -c2 -f S16_LE -r 44100 -traw -D $FILE$ - | tee
/mnt/HP/Recordings/1.wav
wavin mp3 * *
# RB:{BITRATE=-B %B}
[arecord] -d0 -c2 -f S16_LE -r 44100 -twav -D $FILE$ | [lame] --silent
-q $QUALITY$ -v $BITRATE$ - -
wavin flc * *
# R
[arecord] -d0 -c2 -f S16_LE -r 44100 -twav -D $FILE$ | [flac] -cs
--totally-silent --compression-level-0 -
The location of the file is:
usr/local/slimserver/Cache/InstalledPlugins/Plugins/Waveinput/custom-convert.conf
I've played around with the file such as changing [arecord] to [aplay]
and parameter changes, and that causes the plugin to error out, so I'm
thinking I'm messing with the right .conf file. Doing arecord/aplay from
the command line and killing with a ^C does not seem to have adverse
effect on the wav header, but I'm realizing now that this may differ
from what the plugin is doing.
The slimserver id is the same as the id I'm using when using PuTTY. Just
to be safe, I set the Write Permissions under pCP LMS page, and also set
the properties on the directory using WinSCP - it shows as 0777 (full
R/W for everyone if I understand correctly). So yes, I do think
slimserver has the right permissions. Still no file is produced with tee
after changing the permissions - as far as I can tell, the permissions
were there to begin with, but I'm pretty sure they are now.
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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: WaveInput for Linux
Edited the custom-convert.conf file, and added | tee /mnt/HP/Recordings/1.wav. Did this under the wavin pcm * * as I don't know how to make the input flac (is that detected from the extension(?)). After rebooting, resetting the mounts, and making sure the directories were in place, I lit off the WaveInput, and no complaints and it played the input stream just fine. But no file was created in the destination output as it is when I run arecord from the the command line. Did some googling on tee and it seems there is not much too it in terms of settings, so this looks fine to me. I'd prefer to generate wav as that is what I'm used to edit and have tools for, but if flac is a better choice here, I can certainly go that route as well. I'll try that next, but like I said, don't know how to force that path - any help there would be appreciated. I'll play with this some more, but this is pretty much what I was hoping for assuming we can get tee to generate a file. I tried adding "- | tee" but that didn't make any difference. -------- Spiel1's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=71168 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49584 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: WaveInput for Linux
bpa wrote: > I suspect WaveInput is not the right way to do it. WaveInput has many > restrictions. For example, depending on how you stop playing - you may > lose the end of the file. > > I don't understand why you would do this and you say you don't know > linux, can you explain a bit more so a solution can be devised perhaps > without WaveInput such as VLC or use PCP's own capabilities. I have a large record collection up in a man-cave on the second floor of my house with a turntable, pCP, and a mediocre stereo. I have a process where I record these to wav, then do some cleaning and separation into individual track, these are then fed into DAEMON Tools Pro where a create a virtual CD using the LP tracks, and then I rip the virtual CD into flac using dBpoweramp. Typically, this results in dBpoweramp knowing what I'm ripping, and thus saves me the hassle of manually entering the song names, cover art, etc. The resulting flacs are added to LMS where I can play them all over the house. Getting wind of this, my friends are now bringing me boxes of albums to listen to and record. In that case, I typically convert the flac to VBR MP3 and put on a memory stick for them to take home. We'd like to congregate in the living room which has ample room, decent HiFi, and is next to an open kitchen. Ideal place to hang around and listen to albums, aside from the fact that it does not have a turntable. But it does have a pCP. So what I thought would be nice, is being able to record and feed music (at roughly the same time) in my man-cave while listening in the living room, as opposed to piling everyone into the man-cave which is ill suited for gatherings. The simple solution would be to move the turntable to the living room and have the LMS located there, but this is a bit of a logistical nightmare that I was hoping to avoid. Sorry for the longwinded explanation - I thought this was something that others were possibly already doing, and that I was just overlooking something. I used to have LMS on a Win-2012 server, but it fried a few months ago along with my squeezebox player, and that's when took the dive into linux and pCP. So far, that has been working out great, although the learning curve was a bit steep in the beginning. At any rate, thanks for your help - I will live without being able to record/stream at the same time, but by the same token, it would make my life easier if I could, so any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks, Spiel1 ---- Spiel1's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=71168 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49584 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: WaveInput for Linux
I'm trying to both record to a file, and at the same time either play that file using the WaveInput plugin, or to pipe (or loop) the audio input to the plugin to allow for playing in different rooms. My use case is as follows: I have a couple of Raspberry Pi's running pCP, one has LMS and a player, the other just the player. The LMS pi has a HiFiBerry DAC+ ADC Pro card that I'm using to record LPs in addition to running LMS. I'd like to both record to a file, and also make the stream available to LMS so I can play it in other rooms (somewhat) simultaneously. Playing and recording at the same time on the LMS pi is no problem, but bringing this to the plugin is a challenge for me. The following works fine on the LMS pi: 1. Using PuTTY I log on to the pi, cd to a mounted directory, and then do: arecord -f cd 1.wav 2. In an other command window also opened in PuTTY, I can then play this file while it's being recorded to a stereo hooked up to the pi using: aplay -f cd 1.wav What I can't do, is use the WaveInput to direct to the LMS after I start arecord, but the plugin works fine using default settings and unmodified .conf files when I'm not recording. Ideally, I'd like to be able to record to a file and at the same time listen to what is being recorded in another room. I don't care if there is some lag, but I don't want to record an entire album side, and then listen to the results after the fact - the idea is to be able to be located in another room and know within reason when it's time to stop recording, and start another side. Additional audio processing is taken care of later. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm linux ignorant, although I have managed to install and use pCP and the WaveInput without running into issues - I just don't seem to be able to do this one tweak. Thanks, Spiel1 Spiel1's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=71168 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49584 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
