Re: [slim] Announcement - ickStream open beta release on Squeezebox !

2015-01-17 Thread crystalgipsy
Been using this for a while with TIDAL and not getting the best performance. It keeps just stopping after playing for a while and cant get it to play any more tracks until i restart the server. Running on Vortexbox 2.3. Its done this having proxied streaming on and off, any help appreciated. [1

Re: [slim] Announcement - ickStream open beta release on Squeezebox !

2014-11-16 Thread crystalgipsy
pippin wrote: > Then it will be FLAC unless you have disabled FLAC streaming in > Settings->Advanced-File Types->FLAC". > On the ickStream forum there's advice on how you can see the actual > stream format in the logs. > > We'll fix the wrong display as fast as we can but we haven't really > fig

Re: [slim] Announcement - ickStream open beta release on Squeezebox !

2014-11-15 Thread crystalgipsy
Just installed with no issue on Vortexbox running LMS 7.9. Got trials of Tidal and QOBUZ and all works and sounds good. Well done guys. One question is this going to be a free service to end users or are we going to have to pay for it on top of our subs to the music services or you getting funded

Re: [slim] Tidal Hi-Resolution Streams available on ickStream, soon for all Squeezebox users!

2014-11-09 Thread crystalgipsy
For the record I was trying Tidals 320kps aac stream to their own Hifi one and not to other services and could not tell the difference at all which may be a good or a bad thing depending on your point of view. Paying £20 per month I expect a major difference from compressed to lossless. I have c

Re: [slim] Tidal Hi-Resolution Streams available on ickStream, soon for all Squeezebox users!

2014-11-07 Thread crystalgipsy
I tried the 7 day trial and honestly could really not tell the difference between their 320 aac stream and the hifi flac one using very good quality headphones. Same goes for me when I compare my own 320kp files to the cd original on my system I hear no difference and I have a pretty good system.