Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Soundicity, Squeezebox Controller App, for Windows 8.1 Tablets and Phones

2015-04-24 Thread Marc Bartsch
usc95 wrote: > So I received my cheap tablet yesterday and installed Soundicity as well > as LMS locally. Unfortunately even with inputing localhost:9000 under > the ip address for local servers I still could not get it to connect to > LMS running on the tablet. Do I just input "localhost:9000"

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-04-24 Thread flimflam
flimflam wrote: > I have a problem with streams suddenly stopping dead too using Triode's > alpha plugin, it can be after just 5 seconds or 2 minutes or 30 minutes, > it happens a lot for On Demand, and sometimes on Listen Live too. > > This is LMS 7.9 on OS X, happens with Squeezebox Touch, Squ

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Soundicity, Squeezebox Controller App, for Windows 8.1 Tablets and Phones

2015-04-24 Thread usc95
So I received my cheap tablet yesterday and installed Soundicity as well as LMS locally. Unfortunately even with inputing localhost:9000 under the ip address for local servers I still could not get it to connect to LMS running on the tablet. Do I just input "localhost:9000" or do I need anything

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

2015-04-24 Thread ad6922
Seems that i was wrong, am running lms 7.8.1 already. New installation of the plugin has made that i didn't have the relogin for 3 days now. Hope this is it. Update: No, it's not. Relogin problems again. ad6922's Profile:

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

2015-04-24 Thread ad6922
Seems that i was wrong, am running lms 7.8.1 already. New installation of the plgun has made that i didn't have the relogin for 3 days now. Hope this is it. ad6922's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Max2Play Webinterface for Mediaclients (Audioplayer, Squeezeserver, Airplay, XBMC)

2015-04-24 Thread Squeezemenicely
flysurfer wrote: > > > @Squeezemenicely: The default volume of the hifiberry DAC is a little > too low. I fixed this in an update, that sets the optimal PCM volume > when changing the soundcard on audioplayer tab and you can now adjust > this PCM-value manually on Raspberry Settings tab in webi

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-04-24 Thread PasTim
psketch wrote: > Yes - SSH is fine - just didn't know the cmd - Linux isn't me strong > suit... Don't learn too much (easy for me - I forget it all and look it up each time), change is afoot with the method of starting and controlling services. Some distributions have already changed. LMS 7

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-04-24 Thread psketch
PasTim wrote: > Assuming you have command line access: > > Code: > > > sudo service logitechmediaserver stop > > > > should work. If not, let us know. > > Edit: I also install the "Server Power Control" plugin from gharris. > This has seve

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-04-24 Thread PasTim
psketch wrote: > If you can tell me how to stop the server on Linux, I'll grab that log > file for you. Assuming you have command line access: Code: sudo service logitechmediaserver stop should work. If not, let us know. LMS 7.9 on Vorte

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-04-24 Thread Peter314
Fumbling to turn the Radio on this morning, I was immediately struck by how quickly 5 Live started to play. Since the streams switched to HLS, there has always been a hiatus of several seconds before a stream was audible. Now it is back to how it used to be: no more than a second or two for any of

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-04-24 Thread flimflam
I have a problem with streams suddenly stopping dead too using Triode's alpha plugin, it can be after just 5 seconds or 2 minutes or 30 minutes, it happens a lot for On Demand, and sometimes on Listen Live too. This is LMS 7.9 on OS X, happens with Squeezebox Touch, Squeezeplay OS X, and iPeng P

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-04-24 Thread psketch
So, the Linux buffering may be a different cause - I've just reconnected to that server to collect the logs, and found that Listen Live (Non UK) now plays fine - no rebuffering - buit switching back to windows still stalls. So, something different in the two, although obviously both in the same c

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-04-24 Thread utgg
bpa wrote: > I haven't bothered to look at the HLS code - I'm just trying to see what > is different in the logs between windows and Linux and between RTMP / > HLS on Windows. > > There are no EINTR events in the Linux logs - so why are they are there > in the Windows logs. IIRC Windows Named Pi

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-04-24 Thread bpa
utgg wrote: > I suppose it could be something to do with EINTR. The sysread function > in the HLS handler returns EINTR when there is no data - it would return > EWOULDBLOCK if there were a file handle to wait on with 'select' - but > there isn't one. This is how the HLS handler works - those EI

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-04-24 Thread utgg
bpa wrote: > I assume the Groovesalad aac stream http://somafm.com/groovesalad130.pls > plays OK as well. > > It could be associated with the burstiness of HLS. Do you get the EINTR > message in the log on Ubuntu ? > > There are comment in Perl forums that after EINTR, the interrupted > system

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-04-24 Thread Owen Smith
utgg wrote: > I had a chuckle at that. As I sit here with my 2mbps > with-a-following-wind broadband, and BT saying they have no plans but > may think about upgrading to 'superfast' here by 2018 (to guarantee a > minimum 2mbps...). Not that I would entrust any of my data to the cloud > anyway...

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-04-24 Thread bpa
psketch wrote: > So, there's just something funny with the buffering in the transcoding > specifcally with the BBC app for some reason I guess - the test aac > files play fine. I assume the Groovesalad aac stream http://somafm.com/groovesalad130.pls plays OK as well. It could be associated with

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-04-24 Thread psketch
PasTim wrote: > Weird. I assume 'On Demand' is still OK? > > YOU'RE QUITE QUICK AT THIS STUFF AREN'T YOU! > > Last time I had a comms failure I had no line for 2 weeks (in deepest > commuter-land).. That's the power of the Cloud my friend - total time to get a working Ubunta machine - 20

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-04-24 Thread PasTim
psketch wrote: > OK - spun up a Ubuntu VM, installed 7.9 on it and it's very similar to > the Windows version - the non-UK versions plays for a few seconds and > then goes into rebuffering. Difference is that the linux version seems > to recover from this and start playing again then stops again

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-04-24 Thread psketch
PasTim wrote: > It's fascinating how different people see things. The idea of 'My' > music being in the cloud, managed by some corporate monster, and > unavailable if there's a comms problem (I specialised in trying to make > reliable systems when in IT), gives me the shivers just thinking about

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-04-24 Thread psketch
PasTim wrote: > Backups are easy - I have 3 in different places round the house, only > one connected to my home network. > > I can't backup my comms in any easy fashion, and it does fail from time > to time, so the cloud is much, much, less reliable than my home systems > and I can do nothing a

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-04-24 Thread PasTim
psketch wrote: > Embrace the Cloud! I must admit I worried much more about losing stuff > through drive failure than I do about big brother wanting to listen to > my Abba Greatest Hits album ;-). Now it's nice and safely stored > elsewhere, backed up etc.. Backups are easy - I have 3 in differe

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-04-24 Thread psketch
utgg wrote: > I had a chuckle at that. As I sit here with my 2mbps > with-a-following-wind broadband, and BT saying they have no plans but > may think about upgrading to 'superfast' here by 2018 (to guarantee a > minimum 2mbps...). Not that I would entrust any of my data to the cloud > anyway...

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-04-24 Thread psketch
castalla wrote: > I use a Pi B without any problems - installed squeezeplug 7.50 which > allows you to set up LMS, etc. easily. I guess the only drawback is > that indexing is a little slow - depends on the size of your music > library. > > I agree with PasTim about cloud storage! Embrace the

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-04-24 Thread utgg
psketch wrote: > ... as we all transition to cloud, ... with high speed broadband > connections now becoming so widespread ... I had a chuckle at that. As I sit here with my 2mbps with-a-following-wind broadband, and BT saying they have no plans but may think about upgrading to 'superfast' here

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-04-24 Thread castalla
I use a Pi B without any problems - installed squeezeplug 7.50 which allows you to set up LMS, etc. easily. I guess the only drawback is that indexing is a little slow - depends on the size of your music library. I agree with PasTim about cloud storage! Touch - Muse M50 EX TPA3123 T-Amp Mini

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-04-24 Thread PasTim
psketch wrote: > Firstly, thanks for the help and efforts on this - i do realise it's a > bit of an "edge case" but, as you say, although it may be unique today > it's probably uncovering some odd bufering issue which might show up for > others and also as we all transition to cloud, others will

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-04-24 Thread psketch
utgg wrote: > Good theory, but I think the evidence from the log is that the data > isn't being cut off - the first 32 seconds of stream data has definitely > been received in the plugin, but only the first 3 seconds or so is > played before the rest is lost somewhere in the transcode system. >

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-04-24 Thread utgg
PasTim wrote: > But why only Live and not On Demand (both HLS)? What's so different? That is a good question. There are several differences with On Demand - the chunks of audio are 10 seconds long rather than 6.4 seconds long, the bit rate will be different (I'm not sure what the non-uk On Deman

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-04-24 Thread PasTim
utgg wrote: > Good theory, but I think the evidence from the log is that the data > isn't being cut off - the first 32 seconds of stream data has definitely > been received in the plugin, but only the first 3 seconds or so is > played before the rest is lost somewhere in the transcode system. But

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Annouce: SB Player, a software Squeezebox player app for Android.

2015-04-24 Thread wt0
trouty00 wrote: > Has this been tested on 5.1? i installed and opened it up first time but > after i closed it i cannot open it again. Yes it has been tested on 5.1. Maybe you unchecked "Show this screen at launch". Try launching again and see if the icon appears in the notification area. ---

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Annouce: SB Player, a software Squeezebox player app for Android.

2015-04-24 Thread trouty00
Has this been tested on 5.1? i installed and opened it up first time but after i closed it i cannot open it again. 'Custom Squeezebox Touch Wall Mount's Available' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?95114-Squeezebox-Touch-Wall-Mount-project-and-possibly-for-sale)

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-04-24 Thread utgg
PasTim wrote: > I wonder if it's worth stepping back briefly and making sure what your > system is, what works and what doesn't. This is just random imaginings, > so please ignore if I'm off-beam. > > As I understand it: > > - your LMS is on a Windows VM in Microsoft's Azure Cloud, which repor