Re: [slim] Spotify to offer Lossless Streaming

2021-02-27 Thread philippe_44
mcduman wrote: > when the cd was invented in the 80s it offered a resolution of 1411 > kbps. when you bought a computer at that time it came with a 320x240 > screen. > fast forward to today, and the most popular streaming service offers 320 > kbps. when you buy a high end computer it comes

Re: [slim] Spotify to offer Lossless Streaming

2021-02-27 Thread pablolie
mcduman wrote: > when the cd was invented in the 80s it offered a resolution of 1411 > kbps. when you bought a computer at that time it came with a 320x240 > screen. > fast forward to today, and the most popular streaming service offers 320 > kbps. when you buy a high end computer it comes

Re: [slim] Graphic Visualiser

2021-02-27 Thread Paul Webster
Did you start Squeezelite on the same machine ... with the command line switch (-v) to turn on the visualiser? Paul Webster http://dabdig.blogspot.com author of \"now playing\" plugins covering radio france (fip etc), kcrw, supla finland, abc australia, cbc/radio-canada and rte ireland

Re: [slim] Spotify to offer Lossless Streaming

2021-02-27 Thread mcduman
pablolie wrote: > So sue me but I am perfectly happy with the SQ of the current 320k > stream. Plenty of listening tests out there show how hard it is to tell > the difference between 320k/CD quality/HighRez. There are preciously few > albums that are recorded with the required resolution, and

Re: [slim] Graphic Visualiser

2021-02-27 Thread atca
slartibartfast wrote: > Which skin did you choose for Jivelite? Joggler skin should definitely > work. > > Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk I've tried the Joggler skin, each resolution of the Squeezebox standard skin and the material skin. I just get: 33598 No moving bars. I've done a

Re: [slim] Spotify to offer Lossless Streaming

2021-02-27 Thread d6jg
Likewise I expect there will be a clamour to get Spotify lossless on board but as far as I am concerned they have missed the boat. Unless it’s massively cheaper (unlikely) and fully supported here (as you say down to Michael) why would I want the hassle of transferring my library from one to

Re: [slim] Spotify to offer Lossless Streaming

2021-02-27 Thread TomAmes
+1 as well But I pity Michael for having to deal with the likely oncoming demands for what may be a Herculean task. As much credit as Michael gets here, it still is not enough imo. TomAmes's Profile:

Re: [slim] Graphic Visualiser

2021-02-27 Thread slartibartfast
atca wrote: > installed jivelite, exactly what I was looking for but the spectrum > analyser didn't work. > > I tried it at several different resolutions and size and just nothing > :( > > Trying to compile squeezeplay now and will try that instead.Which skin did > you choose for Jivelite?

Re: [slim] Graphic Visualiser

2021-02-27 Thread atca
installed jivelite, exactly what I was looking for but the spectrum analyser didn't work. I tried it at several different resolutions and size and just nothing :( Trying to compile squeezeplay now and will try that instead.

Re: [slim] American album reviews

2021-02-27 Thread slartibartfast
d6jg wrote: > That’s exactly how music should be discovered. > AWB were, at least in their early days, about as funky as you could be > even though they were from Scotland and not Detroit. Have you heard > Icelandic funk band Jaguar?You probably couldn't call a band "Average White > Band"

Re: [slim] Spotify to offer Lossless Streaming

2021-02-27 Thread d6jg
garym wrote: > No shouting on this forum. My favorite forum for getting along with > everyone! Regarding transparency of different codecs, In the distant > past, I did some ABX (double blind) tests of lossless vs various flavors > of mp3 (320kbps down to 64kbps I recall). I found most things >

Re: [slim] American album reviews

2021-02-27 Thread d6jg
https://open.spotify.com/album/5ZjSx1NLsp5RYVYiOyoUjA?si=yV8x9Z0XSeGwZXmA6Ky0Yg Yes they are. I had to buy the CD when I went to Iceland a few years ago. I have a problem with “what are you listening to”. I’d post constantly if the forum software worked better with an iPhone image wise but it’s

Re: [slim] American album reviews

2021-02-27 Thread garym
d6jg wrote: > That’s exactly how music should be discovered. > AWB were, at least in their early days, about as funky as you could be > even though they were from Scotland and not Detroit. Have you heard > Icelandic funk band Jaguar? No, but I will check them out. The disconnect (in my feeble

Re: [slim] American album reviews

2021-02-27 Thread d6jg
garym wrote: > Love the "Average White Band". Back in the early 1970s I saw Brian > Auger and the Oblivion Express in a relatively small club in Dallas, > Texas (fantastic by the way). I was talking with one of the guys in the > band at a break,* and he told me that I just had to check out

Re: [slim] American album reviews

2021-02-27 Thread garym
d6jg wrote: > Just played two British albums from different era. > Average White Band / AWB from 1974 > Rag’n Bone Man / Human from 2017 > > As Michael has fixed Allmusic changes in MAI I read the reviews. > > Both reviews presumably by contemporary American reviewers use the term >

Re: [slim] Spotify to offer Lossless Streaming

2021-02-27 Thread garym
d6jg wrote: > Generally I am also +1 > But, don’t shout at me, I listen a lot using my iPhone, an Audioquest > Dragonfly and a pair of B P7s. I can tell a 320kbps mp3 from a FLAC > and very occasionally I can detect a HiRes FLAC. > However I am not going to replace all my ripped CDs with 24bit

Re: [slim] American album reviews

2021-02-27 Thread d6jg
Just played two British albums from different era. Average White Band / AWB from 1974 Rag’n Bone Man / Human from 2017 As Michael has fixed Allmusic changes in MAI I read the reviews. Both reviews presumably by contemporary American reviewers use the term “sophomore” in them. I rest my case

Re: [slim] Graphic Visualiser

2021-02-27 Thread atca
Any idea on the difference between: https://github.com/ralph-irving/tcz-jivelite (this seems to be for piCorePLayer) and https://github.com/ralph-irving/jivelite atca's Profile:

Re: [slim] Spotify to offer Lossless Streaming

2021-02-27 Thread d6jg
> kidstypike;1011916 Generally I am also +1 But, don’t shout at me, I listen a lot using my iPhone, an Audioquest Dragonfly and a pair of B P7s. I can tell a 320kbps mp3 from a FLAC and very occasionally I can detect a HiRes FLAC. However I am not going to replace all my ripped CDs with 24bit

Re: [slim] Graphic Visualiser

2021-02-27 Thread atca
Paul Webster wrote: > Sync the Pi and the Squeezebox. Great idea. atca's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=56880 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=114045

Re: [slim] Spotify to offer Lossless Streaming

2021-02-27 Thread kidstypike
garym wrote: > I couldn’t agree more. *Server - LMS 8.2.0 *Pi4B 4GB/Argon one case/pCP v7.0.1 - 75K library, playlists & LMS cache on SSD (ntfs) *Study -* Pi3B/pCP 7.0.1/pi screen/Hifiberry DAC HAT Ruark MR1 Mk2 *Lounge* - Pi2/pCP 6.0.0 > HiFiBerry DIGI+ > AudioEngine DAC1 > AVI DM5 *Garage*

Re: [slim] Spotify to offer Lossless Streaming

2021-02-27 Thread garym
pablolie wrote: > So sue me but I am perfectly happy with the SQ of the current 320k > stream. Plenty of listening tests out there show how hard it is to tell > the difference between 320k/CD quality/HighRez. There are preciously few > albums that are recorded with the required resolution, and

Re: [slim] Balance

2021-02-27 Thread Ron F.
philippe_44 wrote: > What about the case of squeezelite on a Pi with a hat AMP hat or > squeezelite-esp32. Even one of my old duet is connected to a pair of > active speakers where I cannot control individual balance. > > At the same time, my question came from the fact that inside slimproto,

Re: [slim] Spotify to offer Lossless Streaming

2021-02-27 Thread pablolie
So sue me but I am perfectly happy with the SQ of the current 320k stream. Plenty of listening tests out there show how hard it is to tell the difference between 320k/CD quality/HighRez. There are preciously few albums that are recorded with the required resolution, and even when you're very

Re: [slim] Graphic Visualiser

2021-02-27 Thread Roland0
atca wrote: > Are there any plugins which enable graphic visualiser of the music - > like the 80's style graphic eq ? > > But I'd like to do this on the TV for a squeezebox / squeezelite player, > so I am think something which is over the web interface. Open to any > ideas. As mentioned,

Re: [slim] American album reviews

2021-02-27 Thread d6jg
RobbH wrote: > First, my assumption is that the question was intended to include > Canadians. Second, I don't think any of us could claim to speak for the > majority, and I certainly did not try! > > --another grumpy old guy (sorry, "git" does not come naturally to me) > who speaks something

Re: [slim] Graphic Visualiser

2021-02-27 Thread Paul Webster
Sync the Pi and the Squeezebox. Paul Webster http://dabdig.blogspot.com author of \"now playing\" plugins covering radio france (fip etc), kcrw, supla finland, abc australia, cbc/radio-canada and rte ireland Paul

Re: [slim] Graphic Visualiser

2021-02-27 Thread atca
Paul Webster wrote: > If you run Jivelite on the same device as Squeezelite then you should be > able to get them. > However, it requires a shared memory interface ... so will not work if > you use your Jivelite to control a player that is remote to it. thanks at the minute this is a remote

Re: [slim] Graphic Visualiser

2021-02-27 Thread Paul Webster
If you run Jivelite on the same device as Squeezelite then you should be able to get them. However, it requires a shared memory interface ... so will not work if you use your Jivelite to control a player that is remote to it. Paul Webster http://dabdig.blogspot.com author of \"now playing\"

[slim] Graphic Visualiser

2021-02-27 Thread atca
Are there any plugins which enable graphic visualiser of the music - like the 80's style graphic eq ? But I'd like to do this on the TV for a squeezebox / squeezelite player, so I am think something which is over the web interface. Open to any ideas.

Re: [slim] Apple Airports to give

2021-02-27 Thread jeroen2
rkrug wrote: > Hi > > Did you get my DM? > > Yes, and responded. Not sure this is what you are looking for though, they are all 'generation 1", which is the model that looks like a MacBook power supply (with integrated plug). For music that works fine though, but I have no experience with

Re: [slim] Call for testers! Daphile

2021-02-27 Thread mvn2009
Recently started using Daphile and really enjoying it, easy install and good performance. Came form Vortexbox (using an 10 years old Vortexbox appliance, Intel Athom) but it got unstable and I'm a noob in Linux. I tried to find out if it's possible to use MusicIP/Spicefly in combination with