I am interested in the concept of this plug-in in the post Squeezebox
era and commend your plug-in for providing this functionality.
Here are my observations:
I installed the plug-in (Windows 7/LMS 7.9) and it runs and discovers my
Revo SuperConnect Radio.
I could not stream any of the tracks i
Thanks for looking bpa.
If all else fails I think I'll create a playlist with:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/englandcms/livestreams/int1.asx
to
http://www.bbc.co.uk/englandcms/livestreams/int18.asx
and simply step through them until I find the right game/event.
Meanwhile the game has started.
-
bpa - is there any chance that these can be incorporated into the
iPlayer extras menus.
Yesterday I listened to a cricket match (Worcestershire v Lancashire)
which was referred to on air as BBC Live Event 18.
I googled this and found this site:
http://tunein.com/radio/BBC-Live-Event-18-s123224/
ian_heys wrote:
> Thanks for the response.
>
> Will investigate next week - away for the weekend.
Think this is the offending log but could be wrong, any ideas?
Starting Squeezelite:
/var/lib/squeezeboxserver/cache/InstalledPlugins/Plugins/LocalPlayer/Bin/squeezelite-x86-64
-d all
Triode wrote:
> Do you need to add the squeezebox server user to the audio group?
Already seems to be a user of the audio group:
ian@Trafford:~$ sudo adduser squeezeboxserver audio
[sudo] password for ian:
The user `squeezeboxserver' is already a member of `audio'.
If it's nothing obviouse Tr
Triode wrote:
> Looks to me that something else using the alsa slave device - try
> starting with -o hw:CARD=
>
> This will bypass any alsa layer processing you have - it will still need
> the output device to be available for use though.
Thanks again Triode.
Something must be holding the aud
Triode wrote:
> In this case it is: -hw:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
>
> The actual name used is the one in [] from /proc/asound/cards.
I had to remove pulseaudio and install gnome-alsamixer and the command:
-o hw:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
now works (It may work now without any command but I haven't tried
that.
Triode wrote:
> Its intended to start with the server - are there any errors in the log?
Thanks for the response.
Will investigate next week - away for the weekend.
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My Local Player Plug-in performs flawlessly, but the process for
starting it seems in-elegant.
Despite having the "Start Player with server" button ticked in the setup
it reports "Not Running"
The process to start it is to uncheck the "Start player with server"
button and press the "appl
Looks good on Radio 1 but has "No Title" showing next to icon on RHS of
server web page.
On Radio 4 I am now getting file type PNG and no now playing indicator
for station.
Hope BBC sort this out soon and thanks as ever for all the work you put
into my favourite squeezebox plug-in.
This on my s
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It's for the live AAC streams (first choice - presume not flash) on SB3
classics.
Also the same in the web interface - shows bit rate on RHS pane but not
on LHS pane (when BBC item is clicked on RHS).
Still working fine though.
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Mine working now too - did restart the server - thanks.
Think it was the BBC end though as the PC stream is also now working.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/listen/live/r4_aaclca.pls
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See my post on BBC iPlayer (also Triode's)
Don't have Spotify myself but could it be something similar - it's
moved onto a different part of the Menu tree?
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On my SB3's BBC iPlayer disappeared from the Internet Radio Menu when
upgrading to 7.6
Not a big problem - just had to put it back as a separate entity into
each of the SB3's menus.
Any ideas why it didn't persist?
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what I had in mind was, say I was in My Music/Artist/Ella Fitzgerald on
my SB3's and another menu item was available alongside Songs/Albums etc
that said something like "On Spotify".
Hope that makes it clearer
" out the Artist or Album name.
Don't know if this has been suggested before or if it works better on
Windows where all local music can be imported into the client.
As all but ten tracks of my music are in aac or flac it would be a
great help in searching for my artists on Spotify.
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mentioned elsewhere on these boards.
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Triode;586114 Wrote:
> Latest version should do this for the Radio3 stream, but not for the
> Special events as there is no consitent way to get the information for
> the special events.
Thanks Triode
As usual one step ahead.
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eg
File Format: AAC
Bit Rate: 320kbps
I know it may not be part of what the BBC send in the iPlayer and it
may be complicated - but we do see a lot of posts on here with people
not quite sure of which stream they're listenin
Thanks Triode
Will give it a try - but I may not be able to force myself to listen to
all of the above as at least one of them is a long way past his peak!
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Thanks Triode,
I've bookmarked that page.
It looks better organised than what I was using previously.
I've tried one of the national and one of the regional WMA URLs and
they seem to work fine.
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emote it
puts me back in the SBS main menu and stops the screensaver.
Not a big problem and I don't need a fix but is this the same for you
or should I be looking at something else?
Using SB3/latest testing 7.5.2/Ubuntu 10.04
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cricket matches from a menu without having to perform complex search
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I'll give it a try bpa.
Will let you know how I get on.
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bc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/counties/7992843.stm
But the whole thing seems a bit arbitrary and not well structured.
As a matter of interest what is the .stm suffix?
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installed at the moment?
I've managed to extract the wma stream of the match I'm interested in
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Text restored again today.
Though not sure why Radio 4 FM are showing "Wild Billy Childish"
throughout the Today programme.
The BBC must be having some problems.
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Text restored again today.
Though not sure why Radio 4 FM are showing "Wild Billy Childish"
throughout the Today programme.
The BBC must be having some problems.
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Can't see any text on Radio 4 FM and 5 Live Sports Extra today.
Haven't been checking systematically - may have been since last
update.
Running v1.1.2 on Ubuntu 9.04 with 3 x SB3's.
Anyone else seeing this?
esn't seem to have so
far.
Sorry, noticed this a couple of days ago and can't readily find a link
to the article I was reading.
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Noticed version update to 1.1.1
Have installed it but not sure if I'm looking for anything new?
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Works like a charm.
I've reverted my display settings to my preferred values.
Great work again.
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That fixed it.
Looks great for radio.
Will see how I get on with this setting when listening to music.
Might be an idea to think about over-riding display settings if
possible as the user can have this set in many different ways.
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to stay on "BBC Radio 3" or whatever.
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Thanks for the clarification.
Wasn't sure how it was supposed to work.
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I'm listening to Radio 5 Live now (Danny Baker). - Not my usual
listening.
It's exhibiting occasional bursts of bubbling noise and it's also doing
it simultaneously on my PC.
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I've installed the beta and it works fine on my SB3's.
Keep up the good work.
Can you tell me if you keep your test repo in sync with your main repo
when your not testing - as changing from one to the other is a bit of a
pain?
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Fantastic
PHC and RTE my main uses - will give them a try in due course and
report back.
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there:
http://www.wrn.org/listeners/#home-listeners
This seems to be a single URL which plays the station directly.
I really appreciate iPlayer and realise your time must be tight - but -
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No problems whatsoever over first few days.
(But rebuffering stopped for me in a previous upgrade anyway).
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I can't live without this wonderful plugin - is it not now time to make
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the two or three channel changes I do in a day
though.
I also turn my SqueezeboxServer PC off every night so it could be
something to do with that (tuning in soon after PC has booted).
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re so miniscule 0.9f/0.9g - would hate to think
you are chasing something that isn't there.
Talking about pedantic, my (forum?) spell checker says
behavior/minuscule is this Ubuntu or my settings?
The Ubuntu dictionary recognizes them as I have spelled
were probably the reason for the re-buffering in the first place.
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Thanks Triode.
Installed and working fine here.
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h the best they've ever managed since then. Of
course my ears have deteriorated over the intevening fifty years.
I really appreciate the work of the iPlayer team.
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Just noticed that World Service (live stream) has gone flash/aac,
perhaps this could be included in next update.
Not sure how BBC make people aware of these things, seems a bit hit and
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Working fine for me. I only use three plug-ins and this is always the
first to be installed. Great audio quality.
Many thanks to triode and bpa.
Ubuntu 9.04
Squeezecenter 7.3.3
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I've upgraded, (from beta 3 I think) anything to look out for?
Continues to work fine for me on 7.3.3 and Ubuntu 9.04 - still haven't
had a single instance of failure to connect first time.
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that it reverts to WMA on World
Service - very nifty.
Might be worth adding a caveat for the general release that streams
cannot be saved to Favorites (in Now Playing or on the Server UI) just
to avoid unnecessary failure reports.
Look forward to the general release.
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installed Squeezecenter on Windows XP drive will give that a
try too in due course.
Brilliant now and of course indispensible when local radio changes to
Flash.
Thanks again
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Sorry bpa my misunderstanding.
License issues noted.
I go back to my point that the BBC could make this a lot easier.
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high quality audio replay devices
attached.
To paraphrase the BBC's main man - he doesn't care how we listen as
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Both stream the high quality AAC streams as WAV to the squeezebox and
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Hope you find the time to get round to it sometime.
With more and more streaming going into the flash player it's a sorely
needed plugin.
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perhaps using a different browser to prevent users messing up their
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Thanks again Matt.
The command for my USB stick seems to be
lsmod | grep dvb
I'll keep a record and use it if I need to - but still awaiting BBC's
AAC streams for the time being.
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of the loaded module or will mine be called "budget" too? I'm not too
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Just get better.
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Hi Gordon,
Happy Easter - hope your back's better.
I've posted on the "DVB Radio Add-on for Linux" postings about a script
that blocks the suspend action and whether the script can be stopped on
suspend and restarted on resume.
I wonder if you have any thou
nnect?
This has interaction issues with the SrvrPwrCtrl plug-in and it may be
that I cannot use suspend in this case.
Wondered if you have any ideas.
Thanks for the great plug-in
I'll reference this post on the SrvrPwrCtrl postings too to see if it's
author (Gordon) has any ideas.
Re-installed and all working fine again.
I only use
Suspend to SqueezeNetwork
Shutdown to SqueezeNetwork
I presume the other functions work.
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m the check."
here
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/chown.html
Which seems to me, to confirm that relative path issue.
fchownat and lchown are not installed on my Ubuntu and are not
available in Synaptic.
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have now spent about 8 hours recovering from this scipt.
Am I doing something wrong?
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I'm trying to use the same version on
Squeezecenter
Version: 7.3.3 - 25810
but I think I'll steer clear for the moment just in case.
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ans change the
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following files:
but what does ../../. actually mean?
Thinking about my situation - almost everything on my PC became owned
by squeezecenter.
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It's OK.
I'm sure the eventual gain will be worth the pain.
And I have the time.
Let us know when a new version of the script is included in the
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It worked straight away.
I didn't have to perform the two import steps you describe - possibly
because I had removed Info Browser and had to re-install it and then
restart SqueezeCenter.
I haven't used ContextMenu yet - I'll take a look.
Well put - very succinct.
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etime licence/development fee of $10.00.
or
Download the standard version of SqueezeCenter.
or variations of the above to cover some bases.
I for one would jump at the chance but maybe others would not be so
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:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radiolabs/2008/12/bbc_radio_in_iplayer_-_sounds.shtml
Finally bpa thanks for the AAC+ Plug-in which I use daily.
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vanilla URL's for the AAC+ streams are published (the BBC have
promised to do this) I will be adding these to my favourites but I will
of course need to keep my server running to transcode the streams.
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ue of installing
both.
Finally if it as at possible - an easier menu item editing system
(Maybe a check box with the major section headers)? and the elimination
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At present there is no auto-update, the information is compiled each
time the menu item is called. I have no problems with anyone picking
this up and developing a more general plugin and I haven't tried
epoch's solution yet.
J
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I saw that Michael Herger had a plug-in for this but it is no longer
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- this would take
remote server management to an even greater level of usefulness.
I use lm-sensors in Ubuntu to read the CPU sensors locally on the
server PC - if that's relevant.
Would do it myself but I'm not that smart.
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SuperDateTime
AACPlus (would much prefer this to be native though!)
Also can third party repositories have a check box on the Extension
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and is decoded natively in SB with meta data from
DVB-T.
(Not my solution I hasten to add but another advantage is that it
stands outside SC and is not impacted by updates)
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Should read the information more thoroughly.
All OK now.
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es to enable.
I should say that all the other Plugins that I use seem to have
installed properly Alien/SuperDateTime/Wave Input/AAC+ etc
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