What I dont understand is why half of all the local FM channels display
Artist, Song Title, Favorite name correctly; while the rest of the FM
channels do not
Are there any differences/similarities between channels that work and
those that don't such as service provider (e.g. streamtheworld,
BPA, I really appreciate your time and help.
Just to be clear the problem in the display is not limited to
softsqueeze and other software players. I can see the same kind of
mess up in SBS's display as well. Its obvious to me the feed itself
includes metadata thats not specifically formatted
I think Radiotime is the culprit. Normally metadata is just displayed
without processing. The metadata you show seems to be formatted with
id/value pairs expecting it to be processed again.
My suspicion about Radiotime is my experience with BBC. I'm not sure if
this is still the case but if you
KMEL properly displays the song title info on my SB3. Might just be
the software player or a temporary source glitch in properly displaying
the metadata.
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toby10
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I'm pretty sure it affects all classic players using the original
Squeezebox protocol. There are several FM channels that got added that
dont have that weird information added though.
I'm more curious about how those channels got in the favorites list.
Is it automatic? I'm trying to remember
mkanet;604603 Wrote:
I'm pretty sure it affects all classic clients using the original
Squeezebox protocol.
What do you mean by classic ?
AFAIK The info displayed on screen originates as a bitmap from SBS and
is the same for device with same pixel height width i.e. SB3 and
Softsqueeze even
No zip code needed, MySB simply uses GEO IP to figure out where you are,
therefore what stations are local to you.
Sometimes this GEO IP guessing can be very specific or very general
based on how your ISP assigns and reports it's IP's.
Example: If you live in NJ but use a NYC based ISP then GEO
Classic refers to the first generation of hardware (and software)
clients and respective protocol.
The text you see in that picture is a string of characters fed from SBS
its not a bitmap.. the only thing thats bitmap is picture of the
software player. If you do a CLI query artist ?, you can see
Oh interesting! So SBS determines my location based on my ISP and
automatically adds the channels without any setting changes?
toby10;604614 Wrote:
No zip code needed, MySB simply uses GEO IP to figure out where you are,
therefore what stations are local to you.
Sometimes this GEO IP
mkanet;604624 Wrote:
Oh interesting! So SBS determines my location based on my ISP and
automatically adds the channels without any setting changes?
Correct.
My SB3 displays exactly what the station is sending, your example minus
the word text= is what is displayed on my SB3 on that station.
mkanet;604622 Wrote:
The text you see in that picture is a string of characters fed from SBS
its not a bitmap.. the only thing thats bitmap is picture of the
software player. If you do a CLI query artist ?, you can see the
artist name displayed in a string of characters, etc.
I think the
This went way over my head. Maybe I'm really dense, what would explain
that some FM chanels that were added look 100% correct on softsqueze;
but some channels like KMEL looks incorrect on softsqueeze; but look
correct on newer clients. It seems that these older clients dont
display some of
mkanet;604753 Wrote:
So, when softsqueeze exposes these weird display issues and SB3 devices
shows these same channels correctly under all circumstances, where is
the problem? There are other FM Favorites channels that get added that
dont have this display problem.
First, I'd like to
Example of incorrect format FM channels added automatically to
Favorites:
1. Title: |FM RADIO| - 106.1 - KMEL (Hip Hop)
URL:
http://opml.radiotime.com/Tune.ashx?id=s33995formats=aac,mp3,wma,wmpro,wmvoice,wmvideo,oggpartnerId=16
2. Title: |FM RADIO| - 94.9 - Wild 94.9 (Top 40-Pop)
URL:
I can't test as the URLs which have the problem are geo-restricted to
the US.
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bpa
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I did a bit more digging.
Softsqueeze does not implement one slimproto command META. This
command passes back metadata back from player to SBS for display on
player, WebUI etc. Softsqueeze does not implement the command so
metadata is extracted by SBS.
So it is possible that SBS extraction of
Thanks BPA. What I dont understand is why half of all the local FM
channels display Artist, Song Title, Favorite name correctly; while the
rest of the FM channels do not. Wouldn't missing META support cause the
same symptom for all the FM channels?
Anyway, I could be happy to run debug logs if
Are you using SBS server or MySB.com online?
Were these local FM's listed individually within Favorites? Or was
there a separate folder within Favorites with just your locals?
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toby10
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Why two threads??
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=84657
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bonze
TranquilPC T2-WHS-A3 - SqueezeCenter Version: 7.6.0
3 x wireless SB3, and 2x Touch
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SBS Server. They were listed individually within Favorites.
Sorry, I forgot I had posted this question before; as I never received
any email notifications for that one. I would prefer to follow this
thread. I will ask the moderator to delete/disable the other thread.
Thanks, hopefully I'll
Threads merged.
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Mark Miksis
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Thanks Mark, hopefully I can get a definitive answer as to what
specifically adds these local stations. It works perfectly for me...
all my local stations show up and has full support for artist/song
title. The only weird thing is on some of the radio stations, the
display looks a little weird
This may sound like a dumnb question, but I cant remember what I did to
get all my local FM radio stations to show up in my favorites. This is
GREAT! However, it would be nice to know what I did specifically to get
those added in case a friend would like to do the same thing on his
setup.
I
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