Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: New versions of erlands plugins

2014-10-26 Thread nidzo
hi i had to unistall (just to test some performance problems) some plugins. among these, trackstat. now, it's note available anymore in the list. note: ia have full licence to erland's plugins. any help? LMS 7.3.2 on Nas Synology DS-213 Queezebox Duet Squeezebox Boom Squeezebox Touch

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: New versions of erlands plugins

2014-10-26 Thread nidzo
more than that. after a new install of LMS everything from erland has disappeared LMS 7.3.2 on Nas Synology DS-213 Queezebox Duet Squeezebox Boom Squeezebox Touch nidzo's Profile:

[SlimDevices: Plugins] Alternative LMS on QNAP

2014-10-26 Thread johan d
Hello, since LMS stopped running on my QNAP since i upgraded the NAS to 4.1.1, are there any alternative server software, where SB players can connect to? johan d's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Qobuz.com streaming plugin

2014-10-26 Thread Juls2783
Hello there ! First, thank you for this excellent plugin ! :cool: It works fine when running LMS on my computer! But I recently installed a Synology NAS with LMS running on it. The problem is Qobuz plugin version on the NAS LMS is only 1.203 and streaming isn't working. I've been looking for a

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Alternative LMS on QNAP

2014-10-26 Thread garym
johan d wrote: Hello, since LMS stopped running on my QNAP since i upgraded the NAS to 4.1.1, are there any alternative server software, where SB players can connect to? no, SB players need LMS. *Location 1:* VortexBox 4TB (2.3) LMS 7.8 Transporter, Touch, Boom, Radio w/Battery (all

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Great New Music Streamer Coming from Norway to the U.S. = Tidal

2014-10-26 Thread callesoroe
dafiend wrote: The point is that they don't sell better sound quality. The sell a fantasy or a lifestyle or whatever you want to call it. They target people who want to get the best but don't realize that what they're purchasing isn't any better. Actually, there are disadvantages like

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: New versions of erlands plugins

2014-10-26 Thread PasTim
nidzo wrote: more than that. after a new install of LMS everything from erland has disappeared Forgive me if this is obvious, but do you have access to some other 3rd party plugins? LMS 7.9 on VortexBox Midi running Xubuntu 14.04, FLACs 16-24 bit, 44.1-192kbps. Wired Touch + EDO,

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: ShairTunes Plugin

2014-10-26 Thread atca
Stuart / DSTMK is there any way to adjust the audio buffer / latency to help bring the shairtunes playback in line with other Apple Airplay devices? even if this is just setting a static amount of buffer rather than a dynamic sync.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Great New Music Streamer Coming from Norway to the U.S. = Tidal

2014-10-26 Thread Mnyb
callesoroe wrote: This is rubbish. There is a huge difference between Wimp 320 kbs and Wimp-hifi(flac) . You must have a system that can not reveal the differences. And if you are happy with that, then that is it for you. But when I only had the possibility to use Spotify 320 kbs

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Great New Music Streamer Coming from Norway to the U.S. = Tidal

2014-10-26 Thread callesoroe
Mnyb wrote: Edit spotify are using OGG rigth ? and WIMP AAC Wimp normal is 256 MP3 with squeezeboxes and FLAC as lossless in Wimp-hifi. You can get 320 AAC but as far as I know not for SB. Callesoroe Living room: Transporter, Tact RCS 2.2X digital preamp, Martin Logan Vista speakers,

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Great New Music Streamer Coming from Norway to the U.S. = Tidal

2014-10-26 Thread Mnyb
callesoroe wrote: Wimp normal is 256 MP3 with squeezeboxes and FLAC as lossless in Wimp-hifi. You can get 320 AAC but as far as I know not for SB. Ok 256kBps mp3 you cant get the 320k AAC on Squeezeboxes , that makes normal spotify for squeezebox better than non hifi wimp . I thought they

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Great New Music Streamer Coming from Norway to the U.S. = Tidal

2014-10-26 Thread dafiend
callesoroe wrote: This is rubbish. There is a huge difference between Wimp 320 kbs and Wimp-hifi(flac) . Are you basing this claim on double-blind tests? If not, your statement is audiophool folklore. Blind testing is required to rule out that perceived differences are due to the placebo

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Great New Music Streamer Coming from Norway to the U.S. = Tidal

2014-10-26 Thread Squeezemenicely
Well, I have been using Spotify for quite a wile now and mostly use it for streaming pop music. Which is fine, but I used Qobuz lossless or my own Flac collection for classical - and there really is quite a difference. I do not like classical music via Spotify, it is not horrible, but there is

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Spotify Premium Plugin (Beta)

2014-10-26 Thread johnhuub
bezbozhnik wrote: Looks like you may have compiled against a newer version of libc than is available on some people's systems. When I try to run the helper app manually, I get: ./spotifyd64: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.17' not found (required by ./spotifyd64) Do

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Great New Music Streamer Coming from Norway to the U.S. = Tidal

2014-10-26 Thread garym
Squeezemenicely wrote: Lossless Streaming services do sound better than lossy Streaming services - this is a completely different discussion than the lossy / non lossy debate. The lossy streaming services simply do nt sound as good as the should/ could. this is an important point, as

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] iPeng support thread

2014-10-26 Thread prabbit
pippin wrote: Actually no. If you remind me tomorrow I'll have a look at the menu TrackStat creates. Reminder, as requested. prabbit's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11142 View this thread:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Qobuz.com streaming plugin

2014-10-26 Thread pnaga
Juls2783 wrote: Hello there ! First, thank you for this excellent plugin ! :cool: It works fine when running LMS on my computer! But I recently installed a Synology NAS with LMS running on it. The problem is Qobuz plugin version on the NAS LMS is only 1.203 and streaming isn't working.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Great New Music Streamer Coming from Norway to the U.S. = Tidal

2014-10-26 Thread callesoroe
dafiend wrote: Are you basing this claim on double-blind tests? If not, your statement is audiophool folklore. Blind testing is required to rule out that perceived differences are due to the placebo effect. Your claim of an audible difference at 320 kbps contradicts what I've seen in

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] iPeng support thread

2014-10-26 Thread JohnB
I recently updated iPeng to iPeng 8 and have found that it regularly locks up my iPad (the Home and Sleep/On/Off buttons don't work and parts of the iPeng 8 screen flicker). The only escape is to do a hard reset (holding the Home + Sleep buttons for a few seconds). The OS is iOS 7.1.2 and there

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Great New Music Streamer Coming from Norway to the U.S. = Tidal

2014-10-26 Thread Mnyb
callesoroe wrote: Why not trust your own ears, instead of what others might have heard.. I can defanately hear the diffference on my system, and thats it for me Its a bit hard to do properly , I switched back and forth with spotify premium 320k ogg (better than wimp 256k mp3 for us

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] iPeng support thread

2014-10-26 Thread pippin
iPad 4, right? Sorry, it's a know issue with long track names that scroll. It's actually a bug in the iPad 4's GPU as it seems. We have a workaround that was in the last iPeng 7 version but accidentally got deactivated in iPeng 8, it will be active in the next update again. --- learn more

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Spotify Premium Plugin (Beta)

2014-10-26 Thread paulster
I was listening to Spotify this morning, and then noticed that there was an update for the plugin. Installed that, and tried listening to Spotify again this afternoon after a couple of hours. Now I get this: Error reading headers: Server closed connection without sending any data back at

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Spotify Premium Plugin (Beta)

2014-10-26 Thread Man in a van
paulster wrote: I was listening to Spotify this morning, and then noticed that there was an update for the plugin. Installed that, and tried listening to Spotify again this afternoon after a couple of hours. Now I get this: Error reading headers: Server closed connection without

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Spotify Premium Plugin (Beta)

2014-10-26 Thread Mnyb
Yes seing this to . Error reading headers: Server closed connection without sending any data back at /usr/share/squeezeboxserver/CPAN/Net/HTTP/Methods.pm line 306. ...propagated at /usr/share/squeezeboxserver/CPAN/Net/HTTP/NB.pm line 32. Don’t know if it is the 7.9 beta or the plugin it might

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Spotify Premium Plugin (Beta)

2014-10-26 Thread Mnyb
Why I’m suddenly using noflac ? and an older version of libspotify [18:55:36.716698] main:448 /var/lib/squeezeboxserver/cache/InstalledPlugins/Plugins/Spotify/Bin/i386-linux/spotifyd 2.3.4 started ( libspotify: 12.1.51.g86c92b43 Release Linux-i686 ) [15:40:11.265255] main:448

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Spotify Premium Plugin (Beta)

2014-10-26 Thread Mnyb
Found the problem in my case I just had to press apply on the settings page as for some reason it said that the password was not set . Note I did not reenter the password It was still there I saw the dots in password field and my correct identity , i just pressed apply again

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Spotify Premium Plugin (Beta)

2014-10-26 Thread Man in a van
Mnyb wrote: Found the problem in my case I just had to press apply on the settings page as for some reason it said that the password was not set . Note I did not reenter the password It was still there I saw the dots in password field and my correct identity , i just pressed apply again

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Spotify Premium Plugin (Beta)

2014-10-26 Thread Mnyb
Man in a van wrote: Just remembered what I did, Googled the phrase and found it had in the past been related to log in issues with Spotify; tried to run the Self Test and kept getting the incorrect password thing, checked that my account was still current and filled in my user name and

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Spotify Premium Plugin (Beta)

2014-10-26 Thread paulster
Mnyb wrote: Found the problem in my case I just had to press apply on the settings page as for some reason it said that the password was not set . Note I did not reenter the password It was still there I saw the dots in password field and my correct identity , i just pressed apply again

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] iPeng support thread

2014-10-26 Thread JohnB
pippin, Yes, it is an iPad 4 and yes, I do have some longish track names that scroll (though I try to keep the track names short) and I have quite a lot of longish album names (for classical music) that scroll. Thanks for your help - it is much appreciated! Touch, Meridian G92, Meridian G55,

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] iPeng support thread

2014-10-26 Thread pippin
prabbit wrote: Reminder, as requested. OK, the command gets sent but TrackStat then throws an error: Code: [14-10-26 23:57:03.4754] Plugins::TrackStat::Storage::saveRating (706) Execute UPDATE track_statistics set rating=useContextMenu:1 where url = ? or url = ?

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] iPeng support thread

2014-10-26 Thread prabbit
pippin wrote: OK, the command gets sent but TrackStat then throws an error: Yep, that's the error I see as well. I included that in my 'post' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?49483-Announce-New-versions-of-erlands-pluginsp=793941viewfull=1#post793941) in erland's plugins thread.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: New versions of erlands plugins

2014-10-26 Thread prabbit
erland wrote: Does it only affect iPeng or do you have similar issues if you try to rate through the context menu on a Squeezebox or one of the other smart phone apps ? I answered this above. I took the information to pippin, who was able to reproduce the issue, and his 'reply'

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Great New Music Streamer Coming from Norway to the U.S. = Tidal

2014-10-26 Thread dafiend
callesoroe wrote: Why not trust your own ears, instead of what others might have heard.. I can defanately hear the diffference on my system, and thats it for me 1.) You cannot trust your ears. It is naive to think your hearing is the only factor affecting what you perceive to hear.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Great New Music Streamer Coming from Norway to the U.S. = Tidal

2014-10-26 Thread Mnyb
dafiend wrote: 1.) You cannot trust your ears. It is naive to think your hearing is the only factor affecting what you perceive to hear. If you do not control for other factors (such as your prior conscious or subconscious beliefs about which format sounds better), there is a big risk of

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Great New Music Streamer Coming from Norway to the U.S. = Tidal

2014-10-26 Thread dafiend
garym wrote: this is an important point, as I have seen other discussions, including in this thread, questioning whether some odd volume normalization scheme is being used by some of the streaming services which can even make the 320kbs files not transparent. That's certainly a variable that

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Great New Music Streamer Coming from Norway to the U.S. = Tidal

2014-10-26 Thread pippin
dafiend wrote: This is a conspiracy theory. No, it's a misunderstanding. Spotify DOES have a feature to normalize volume across tracks and it DOES do additional dynamics compression degrading the dynamics of your track. It is, however, in the player software and it's an option you can turn

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Great New Music Streamer Coming from Norway to the U.S. = Tidal

2014-10-26 Thread Mnyb
dafiend wrote: No, but see my next post. I don't see why the big players in the business have the incentive to degrade the lossy audio they serve on purpose. Therefore, I'm focusing on debunking the myth that 320 kbps MP3 is audibly inferior to the lossless source. (I also feel the

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Great New Music Streamer Coming from Norway to the U.S. = Tidal

2014-10-26 Thread Mnyb
Btw you are supposed to help spotify with this they have a content team , you can report bad tracks . These are known issues that some tracks can be mangled by the uploader . Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Spotify Premium Plugin (Beta)

2014-10-26 Thread phin586
bezbozhnik wrote: Looks like you may have compiled against a newer version of libc than is available on some people's systems. When I try to run the helper app manually, I get: ./spotifyd64: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.17' not found (required by ./spotifyd64) Do

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Great New Music Streamer Coming from Norway to the U.S. = Tidal

2014-10-26 Thread Mnyb
pippin wrote: No, it's a misunderstanding. Spotify DOES have a feature to normalize volume across tracks and it DOES do additional dynamics compression degrading the dynamics of your track. It is, however, in the player software and it's an option you can turn off, Triode's plugin supports