garym wrote:
True, but if you are using the triode 3rd party to stream you can't play
separate streams anyhow. Isn't one using only one of the plugins at a
time (either triode's or the official). I guess you mean, I could use
the triode plugin to stream to one player and the official plugin
pippin wrote:
No, they integrate with each other.
If you don't enable the option to always stream through the 3rd party
plugin (off by default) the Triode plugin will play the actual stream
through Logitech's plugin on Touch and Radio and only use it's own
streaming if you play on an
A year or so ago I replaced my trusty Squeezebox Classic (latest
version) with a Squeezebox Touch because I needed Spotify compatibility.
This system is continuing to deliver music to my great satisfaction. I
now wish to add my old SB Classic back into the system, but only as a
'Now Playing'
mphearn wrote:
A year or so ago I replaced my trusty Squeezebox Classic (latest
version) with a Squeezebox Touch because I needed Spotify compatibility.
This system is continuing to deliver music to my great satisfaction. I
now wish to add my old SB Classic back into the system, but only as
mphearn wrote:
A year or so ago I replaced my trusty Squeezebox Classic (latest
version) with a Squeezebox Touch because I needed Spotify compatibility.
This system is continuing to deliver music to my great satisfaction. I
now wish to add my old SB Classic back into the system, but only as
If you have LMS running I believe the 3rd party Spotify plugin by Triode
might do what you want.
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Mnyb wrote:
If you are using the oficial Spotify app , you can't sync the SB Classic
(when playing spotify ) it with the Touch as it is not compatible with
spotify ! which was why you got the Touch in the forst place :)
The Touch will receive Spotify. All I want to do is have the Classic
mphearn wrote:
The Touch will receive Spotify. All I want to do is have the Classic
replicate the Touch display (Particularly 'Now Playing'). Is this
possible?
Why does the audio from the Touch vanish when I synchronize Classic and
Touch?
Because you also synchronise the audio , the
Mnyb wrote:
Because you sychnronise the audio , the spotify stream that classic
can't play .
I only want the Classic to display information - and NOT to play audio.
Is there any way to achieve this?
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mphearn wrote:
I only want the Classic to display information - and NOT to play audio.
Is there any way to achieve this?
Not that I'm aware of. Unfortunately, if it was the opposite, you could
have the TOUCH setup as the controller for the classic and show what
the classic was playing. This
There is no way. The SB3 doesn't have a UI that works independent of the
audio state so it only shows track information if it's also playing a
track and that doesn't work.
Maybe you could get around it through LMS and the MusicInformationScreen
plugin but then you could just as well just install
garym wrote:
Not that I'm aware of. Unfortunately, if it was the opposite, you could
have the TOUCH setup as the controller for the classic and show what
the classic was playing. This is because the Touch can be both a player
and a controller, and one can choose any other player in the
mphearn wrote:
Please note that I am running LMS on a Raspberry Pi processor. The LMS
contains the 'official' Spotify plugin from Logitech as well as BBC
iBlayer. Thus I am able to listen to my own music library as well as
internet radio, BBC iPlayer and Spotify all with the Touch player.
garym wrote:
no. but if you are running LMS the solution is simple, just don't use
the official spotify plugin. Instead use the 3rd party spotify plugin
by triode. Install from LMS plugin page, use this instead, synch the two
players and you'll get what you want. It is only a problem
mphearn wrote:
Wow! Sounds too good to be true! I shall try what you suggest over the
next day or so and let you know. Thank you
And now you can play spotify with your classic too .
The official,plugin have 2 advantages , runs without a server , and can
play multiple different streams , but
Don't disable the official plugin
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garym wrote:
no. but if you are running LMS the solution is simple, just don't use
the official spotify plugin. Instead use the 3rd party spotify plugin
by triode. Install from LMS plugin page, use this instead, synch the two
players and you'll get what you want. It is only a problem
pippin wrote:
Don't disable the official plugin
Why do you say this? I'll have to check, but I recall that I have only
installed the triode 3rd party plugin and the offical plugin is not
installed on my LMS.
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Radio
mphearn wrote:
OK Garym I did exactly what you recommended and installed triode plugin
- and removed the 'official' one . Spotify works ok from Touch but when
I sync to SB3 it gets very unstable and playback stops. I am a Premium
Spotify subscriber. Is the triode plugin supposed to make the
pippin wrote:
Don't disable the official plugin
OK I re-enabled official plugin. Didn't make any difference!
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and spotify may cause problems that streaming lower bit rate streams
do not. Spotify is 320kbs files so these may cause the issues you're
seeing (caused by a weak connection) where a 128kbs stream from, say,
Pandora does not cause the problem. Do you have any lossless files?
What if you
mphearn wrote:
OK I re-enabled official plugin. Didn't make any difference!
see my other postssounds like a weak WIFI connection for SB3 to me.
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*Location 2:* VBA 3TB (2.3)
The oficlal app is good for some situations , when the server is of for
example .
And you can tell them apart the ofical green icon triodes plugin orange
icon .
Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621
The thing is that the LMS server transcodes to the classic , so it must
be capable of handling lossles flac around 750kBps or PCM .
What's the sever running on ? And if the server also are on wifi it
could get a bit weird .
garym wrote:
Why do you say this? I'll have to check, but I recall that I have only
installed the triode 3rd party plugin and the offical plugin is not
installed on my LMS. (it is true that one doesn't also *have* to
uninstall the official pluginone can have both installed).
You lose
mphearn wrote:
OK I re-enabled official plugin. Didn't make any difference!
Does the Classic work okay with Spotify if it's not synched?
kidstypike
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piCorePlayer
Mnyb wrote:
The thing is that the LMS server transcodes to the classic , so it must
be capable of handling lossles flac around 750kBps or PCM .
What's the sever running on ? And if the server also are on wifi it
could get a bit weird .
Aha. I bet that is it. Not only is the server
pippin wrote:
You lose the capability to play separate streams if you disable the
official plugin
True, but if you are using the triode 3rd party to stream you can't play
separate streams anyhow. Isn't one using only one of the plugins at a
time (either triode's or the official). I guess you
kidstypike wrote:
Does the Classic work okay with Spotify if it's not synched to the
Touch?
No, I can see no reference to Spotify in any of the Classic menus. Now
why would that be?
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mphearn wrote:
No, I can see no reference to Spotify in any of the Classic menus. Now
why would that be?
It not connected to your local server ? But are still on
mysqueezebox.com ?
Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J
mphearn wrote:
No, I can see no reference to Spotify in any of the Classic menus. Now
why would that be?
Using the LMS webui, Spotify should be under the Radio menu.
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garym wrote:
True, but if you are using the triode 3rd party to stream you can't play
separate streams anyhow. Isn't one using only one of the plugins at a
time (either triode's or the official). I guess you mean, I could use
the triode plugin to stream to one player and the official plugin
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