Re: [slim] does anyone still use squeezelite anymore instead of chromecast audio and if so why?

2016-09-14 Thread RSJ
For several reasons, First one app controls all my music sources and all my players easily, my preference is Squeezcommander. I have music on a NAS and several music subscription that I switch between regularly. Second you just can't touch the coolness of a Raspberry Pi, a touchscreen and a Hifi

Re: [slim] does anyone still use squeezelite anymore instead of chromecast audio and if so why?

2016-09-14 Thread philippe_44
ashleyw wrote: > it looks like there is an interesting thread about this and according to > google the device itself is actually capable of gapless playback but the > app needs to support it - I can't confirm myself which apps have been > modified (at one stage it was google music and Spotify, bu

Re: [slim] play lastFM scrobbled tracks

2016-09-14 Thread Michael Herger
Oh, and while we are at it, my "banned" tracks could be skipped by LastMix :) There's no such thing as banning on last.fm, is there? I can't find any related API all for that. There's "unlike", but that's not banning. -- Michael ___ discuss mailing

Re: [slim] play lastFM scrobbled tracks

2016-09-14 Thread Michael Herger
What _I_ would want to see is a menu with my "loved" tracks - the ultimate "favorites" feature across multiple services. I still don't see how this would work with tracks outside your local collection: we'd have to look each and every single of them up on a remote streaming service. With poten

Re: [slim] does anyone still use squeezelite anymore instead of chromecast audio and if so why?

2016-09-14 Thread ashleyw
it looks like there is an interesting thread about this and according to google the device itself is actually capable of gapless playback but the app needs to support it - I can't confirm myself which apps have been modified (at one stage it was google music and Spotify, but the last comment said

Re: [slim] play lastFM scrobbled tracks

2016-09-14 Thread pippin
Oh, and while we are at it, my "banned" tracks could be skipped by LastMix :) --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, at penguinlovesmusic.com *New: iPeng 9, the Universal App for iPhone,

Re: [slim] play lastFM scrobbled tracks

2016-09-14 Thread pippin
What _I_ would want to see is a menu with my "loved" tracks - the ultimate "favorites" feature across multiple services. --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, at penguinlovesmusic.com *N

Re: [slim] play lastFM scrobbled tracks

2016-09-14 Thread Michael Herger
The more I think about it, the more I would love to see LastFM favorite albums/artists/tracks etc in the jive(lite) user interface. What would you do with those menus? List your albums ordered by favoriteness (ahm... what would you call that? :-))? Or create mixes based on your data? What abou

Re: [slim] iPhone 7

2016-09-14 Thread pippin
How much power does an headphone amp have to have? Do they need a separate amp for that or can they just drive it through the DAC? If they need an amp my bet is there won't be a DAC. --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as

Re: [slim] iPhone 7

2016-09-14 Thread andynormancx
pippin wrote: > Ah, yes, it was that one It will be interesting to see the tear downs on Friday to see how they've crammed the DAC and amp into the Lightning plug. Yes, it will. Yes, all of them. Yes, SoftSqueeze as well. What ? I SAID ALL OF THEM ! ---

Re: [slim] play lastFM scrobbled tracks

2016-09-14 Thread pippin
Well, "free" is not necessarily commercial (although e.g. Spotify and some other claim anything on the App Store is). But yes, I'll look it up, since Last.fm are no longer streaming themselves they might be relieved of some of the restrictions usually imposed by rights owners --- learn more abo

Re: [slim] play lastFM scrobbled tracks

2016-09-14 Thread Jackisidore
No idea. I have recently installed Scrobbles on ios. It's free and not from last.fm and basicly shows my last.fm favourites Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Jackisidore's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.

Re: [slim] play lastFM scrobbled tracks

2016-09-14 Thread pippin
Do you know whether Last.fm now allows commercial use of their API? I wanted to have such a feature for iPeng forever but at least in the past Last.fm would not allow it. --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party

Re: [slim] play lastFM scrobbled tracks

2016-09-14 Thread Jackisidore
The more I think about it, the more I would love to see LastFM favorite albums/artists/tracks etc in the jive(lite) user interface. Maybe something "simple" like the new Random Albums option or like the Additional Browse Modes. My programming skills are currently very very rusty. -

Re: [slim] does anyone still use squeezelite anymore instead of chromecast audio and if so why?

2016-09-14 Thread bpa
verypsb wrote: > No gapless playback? How can this be true? No gapless playback = no go. CC uses Web Audio and gapless is not possible with webaudio as each "file" will be separate http request. bpa's Profile: http://foru

Re: [slim] does anyone still use squeezelite anymore instead of chromecast audio and if so why?

2016-09-14 Thread verypsb
malaugh wrote: > I have heard that CC-audio does not support gapless playback. Is this > true? > > That would be the deal killer for me. No gapless playback? How can this be true? No gapless playback = no go. Dennis. ::Please vote::: '::bug 1330:: New music should work on creation date' (h

[slim] Absolute Radio FLAC Streams: Gone?

2016-09-14 Thread dagadog
i've spent many happy days listening to the Absolute Radio decade stations in lossless FLAC format, but recently they began to get a bit unreliable. and then disappeared altogether. The links are still visible at http://absoluteradio.co.uk/listen/links/. http://network.absoluteradio.co.uk/core/au

Re: [slim] play lastFM scrobbled tracks

2016-09-14 Thread Jackisidore
That's why I started scrobbling to last.FM. My last.FM artist list is slowly growing. Jackisidore's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33885 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.p

Re: [slim] play lastFM scrobbled tracks

2016-09-14 Thread Michael Herger
I started scrobbling my playback to lastFM. Is it possible to use my lastFM profile (Top Albums or Top Tracks) to create a playlist in LMS? I don't think there's any such plugin around. The LastMix plugin I'm offering to use with 7.9's Don't Stop The Music feature would use that data to creat