Re: [slim] Pause a radio stream ...

2013-03-10 Thread epoch1970
bpa wrote: > you might as well provide a PVR type functionality and save the stream > to disk rather than hold it in memory. I think my mom would like that. She's listening to radio on the Boom, but some listen-again programs are only available on the web. So she has to listen to them on the Mac,

Re: [slim] Pause a radio stream ...

2013-03-10 Thread mikael_b
bpa wrote: > Sure this faciity has been available on other radio players but we are > talking about an Squeezebix context > 1. Functionality is similar axcross all types of player SB3, > Transporter, Radiop and Touch. You are limiting to Touch (Radio doesn;t > have enough memory) when not runni

Re: [slim] Pause a radio stream ...

2013-03-10 Thread bpa
mikael_b wrote: > already have this functionality, both on iThings and Androids, up to two > hours can be saved, you can pause any livestream, rewind or fastforward > it. You can also program recordings and save for later listening. Maybe > the memory is to limited on a Radio but on the Touch you

Re: [slim] Pause a radio stream ...

2013-03-10 Thread mikael_b
bpa wrote: > Most stations are played direct to player with no involvement of the > server except in the case of transcoding or sync. If you were to make > all traffic go through the server (which would might mean more powerful > servers are needed and more local network bandwidth), then you coul

Re: [slim] Pause a radio stream ...

2013-03-09 Thread epoch1970
bpa wrote: > Most stations are played direct to player with no involvement of the > server except in the case of transcoding or sync. If you were to make > all traffic go through the server (which would might mean more powerful > servers are needed and more local network bandwidth), then you coul

Re: [slim] Pause a radio stream ...

2013-03-09 Thread Mnyb
bpa wrote: > It's a lot a of work if server has to save the audio stream as there > issues about starting/stopping streams (e.g. different stream > types/different headers/ time estimation or should all streams be > transcoded) and also ensuring cross platform. A few years ago, I worked > out it

Re: [slim] Pause a radio stream ...

2013-03-09 Thread bpa
Mnyb wrote: > That sounds like a cool plugin idea ? You can already use the server for > proxying , so next logical step would be a " time shift " plugin that > with a player option turns pause to a real pause with user setable > buffer size 1min 15min 2hours or whatnot and some further option to

Re: [slim] Pause a radio stream ...

2013-03-09 Thread Mnyb
bpa wrote: > Most stations are played direct to player with no involvement of the > server except in the case of transcoding or sync. If you were to make > all traffic go through the server (which would might mean more powerful > servers are needed and more local network bandwidth), then you coul

Re: [slim] Pause a radio stream ...

2013-03-09 Thread bpa
epoch1970 wrote: > Would be really nice if the server could handle a ring buffer. But then > I guess this doesn't go too well with radio stations owners since one > big use case is skipping on commercialsÂ… Most stations are played direct to player with no involvement of the server except in the

Re: [slim] Pause a radio stream ...

2013-03-09 Thread epoch1970
bpa wrote: > When you pasuse a stream - the TCP connection stays up. Most radio > stations (especially live/continuous vs short/fxied length programs) > will reset the TCP connection after x minutes if no traffic movemment is > detected and so a few minutes of the stream may remain in the buffe

Re: [slim] Pause a radio stream ...

2013-03-07 Thread castalla
Thanks for the info ... long pause = stop. Got it! castalla's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15624 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98256 _

Re: [slim] Pause a radio stream ...

2013-03-07 Thread Mnyb
castalla wrote: > No Stop on my Touch remote only Pause button Hold pause button , sorry forgot that no squeeze remote has stop button :) Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this

Re: [slim] Pause a radio stream ...

2013-03-07 Thread castalla
Mnyb wrote: > Yes stop is holding pause , and the ir remote for Touch also has stop . > Whern holding pause long enough you see a stop symbol instead of a pause > symbol . > > On local files the difference is that a stopped track starts from the > begining and pause is pause . No Stop on my Tou

Re: [slim] Pause a radio stream ...

2013-03-07 Thread Mnyb
castalla wrote: > There's no Stop on Touch or Squeezeplay toby10 wrote: > Touch: Press & hold PAUSE, this becomes a Stop. No idea on SqueezePlay Yes stop is holding pause , and the ir remote for Touch also has stop . Whern holding pause long enough you see a stop symbol instead of a pau

Re: [slim] Pause a radio stream ...

2013-03-07 Thread bpa
When you pasuse a stream - the TCP connection stays up. Most radio stations (especially live/continuous vs short/fxied length programs) will reset the TCP connection after x minutes and so a few minutes of the stream may remain in the buffer. Some stations do nor seem to reset the TCP connecti

Re: [slim] Pause a radio stream ...

2013-03-07 Thread toby10
castalla wrote: > There's no Stop on Touch or Squeezeplay Touch: Press & hold PAUSE, this becomes a Stop. No idea on SqueezePlay toby10's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12553 View this thr

Re: [slim] Pause a radio stream ...

2013-03-07 Thread Michael Herger
There's no Stop on Touch or Squeezeplay Touch and hold the pause button. -- Michael ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Pause a radio stream ...

2013-03-07 Thread castalla
Mnyb wrote: > The buffered time gets really long for lossy formats I would not be > surprised if the player buffer holds over a minute , try stop instead > orf pause then i think the stream will reinitiate . There's no Stop on Touch or Squeezeplay -

Re: [slim] Pause a radio stream ...

2013-03-07 Thread Mnyb
castalla wrote: > I always thought Pause a radio stream worked effectively as a mute ... I > notice now for the first time that in fact it does actually pause the > stream. Has it always been like this? Or am I losing the plot? The buffered time gets really long for lossy formats I would not b

Re: [slim] Pause a radio stream ...

2013-03-07 Thread Michael Herger
I always thought Pause a rradio stream worked effectively as a mute ... I notice now for the first time that in fact it does actually pause the stream. Has it always been like this? Or am I losing the plot? It would resume if you un-paused within a few minutes. But if you leave it paused for

[slim] Pause a radio stream ...

2013-03-07 Thread castalla
I always thought Pause a rradio stream worked effectively as a mute ... I notice now for the first time that in fact it does actually pause the stream. Has it always been like this? Or am I losing the plot? castalla's Pro