A user pointed out that playlists referencing Deezer tracks or on Deezer
itself were causing errors, The offending code was the part checking if
the playlist exists but is empty, which LMS does not seem to like for
external tracks: :confused:
Code:
{ "id": "1",
Shozzer wrote:
> Thanks for your reply. I have also had the you have no works by
> message as well. So I shouldn't waste time in tweaking my Artist / Album
> Artist tags then but focusing on the album names?
>
> What is the correct response to I need the name of the artist?
>
> Steve
If
Thanks for your reply. I have also had the you have no works by
message as well. So I shouldn't waste time in tweaking my Artist / Album
Artist tags then but focusing on the album names?
What is the correct response to I need the name of the artist?
Steve
philchillbill wrote:
> The issue
Shozzer wrote:
> Hi
>
> Curtesy of Black Friday I took the plunge and purchased a couple of
> Echos (Studio and Dot). I set up the system before the devices arrived
> and carried out some testing via the Alex App. This helped to introduce
> me to the process but there are some limitations.
>
>
Hi
Curtesy of Black Friday I took the plunge and purchased a couple of
Echos (Studio and Dot). I set up the system before the devices arrived
and carried out some testing via the Alex App. This helped to introduce
me to the process but there are some limitations.
I have activated both devices
pprjack wrote:
> This is all fine and good but, what I REALLY want is some way to see an
> Echo Speaker Group (a pair of Echos and an Echo Sub) available as a
> player from the idle LMS Server UI or mobile app and initiate a
> listening session from there.
> I still find the process of
This is all fine and good but, what I REALLY want is some way to see an
Echo Speaker Group (a pair of Echos and an Echo Sub) available as a
player from the idle LMS Server UI or mobile app and initiate a
listening session from there.
I still find the process of initiating a listening session
smarties wrote:
> Hmmm.. I can't remember to be honest, but I don't -think- I did.
> Obviously I would have changed the LMS IP in the ngrok config file at
> the time but there wouldn't have been a reason for me to change the
> password. Maybe I did a full reinstall & setup though, and got my
>
philchillbill wrote:
> Good to hear. I'd hazard a guess that you changed your password and
> started including the illegal character at the same time you switched
> routers? Otherwise there's no logical explanation for why it used to
> work but suddenly stopped.
Hmmm.. I can't remember to be
smarties wrote:
> Bingo ! It works again :D Fantastic - many thanks for your help.
>
> (and yes the password did have one of those characters in it)
>
> Great stuff - I have 2 very happy kids in the house again !
>
> Thanks again!
Good to hear. I'd hazard a guess that you changed your
philchillbill wrote:
> EDIT: I've added url-encoding to the so streaming may work
> for you now as-is.
Bingo ! It works again :D Fantastic - many thanks for your help.
(and yes the password did have one of those characters in it)
Great stuff - I have 2 very happy kids in the house again
smarties wrote:
> Could be related, but playing directly from Amazon music or BBC radio
> works fine on the echos so I'm not sure its exactly same problem.
>
> I've tried de-registering and re-registering the echo too, and that made
> no difference.
>
> It's a bit weird how the echo player
philchillbill wrote:
> See
> https://www.amazonforum.com/s/question/0D54P6zSqxtSAC/echo-will-reply-to-command-but-wont-play-music
> for proof youre not alone with this. I had it myself on one of my Echo
> Dots but not on other Dots or on my Shows. Methinks its a firmware bug
> that is
smarties wrote:
> Yep that's the correct IP and Port
>
> And no luck with switching device language to US - everything works
> except streaming.
See
https://www.amazonforum.com/s/question/0D54P6zSqxtSAC/echo-will-reply-to-command-but-wont-play-music
for proof youre not alone with this. I
philchillbill wrote:
>
>
> People randomly get this (very sporadically) when an AWS server
> allocated to their Alexa account has a different patch-level to the
> norm. Try setting your device language for one of the Echos (in the
> Alexa app) to something other than en-GB (for example,
smarties wrote:
> Thanks for the quick response - no luck with that I'm afraid. Discovery
> only finds my regular players (squeezelite based), not any of my echos.
>
> I've tried disabling and re-enabling the skill and gone through set up
> again but no luck with that either.
>
> Anything
philchillbill wrote:
> Just say "Alexa, tell MediaServer to discover my players" and that will
> not only refresh your player list but retrieve the current internal IP
> address of your LMS. Then streaming should work again.
Thanks for the quick response - no luck with that I'm afraid.
smarties wrote:
>
>
> I did change my router fairly recently which meant I had to change the
> IP ranges of all my devices so that could be related but again as
> everything else is working fine so I'm doubtful.
>
>
I'll bet it relates to that change of internal IPs. The reason the
regular
Hi,
Need help. I'm using this skill to voice control my players and to
stream music to the kids echos (Dots 3rd Gen, plus a Spot). It was
working brilliantly until some point in the past month or so but now
streaming has stopped working (the kids neglected to tell me at the time
so I'm a
Fixed a bug in the on-screen player controls where the repeat icon
displayed instead of the shuffle icon.
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konrat wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Can the skill be controlled by the LMS/Material App on an Android Phone?
> I tried that. However there seems to be a buffer of nearly a minute or
> so. A Pause command is executed 1 min late or so.
>
> Is there any other way to app-control playback on an Echo without
Hello,
Can the skill be controlled by the LMS/Material App on an Android Phone?
I tried that. However there seems to be a buffer of nearly a minute or
so. A Pause command is executed 1 min late or so.
Is there any other way to app-control playback on an Echo without
display?
Thanks.
philchillbill wrote:
> Maybe unlink the skill and re-link it from the same browser where you
> did it the first time so it grabs your uuid. Amazon might have grabbed
> your oauth token erroneously. Rarely happens but Ive seen it a handful
> of times.
Thanks seem to have sorted... found the
bobefax wrote:
> Hi
>
> Have installed via the installer on the mediaserver.smartskills.tech
> site - all simple enough to follow and using powershell on windows to
> install with ngrog - worked fine.
>
> Have linked the skill via amazon and again straight forward to do.
>
> Using with Echo
Hi
Have installed via the installer on the mediaserver.smartskills.tech
site - all simple enough to follow and using powershell on windows to
install with ngrog - worked fine.
Have linked the skill via amazon and again straight forward to do.
Using with Echo dot - 2nd / 3rd gen can connect to
The APL player-controls received a facelift. @staresy pointed out that
the badges for the repeat/shuffle buttons were being cropped on the Echo
Show 5. There was a bug in the APL simulator that was hiding this for me
and I could not verify on a real device, but the simulator has been
updated and
It's probably my odd setup, Android app does the same - a 172.22.0.x
address and nothing. Next time someone with an Apple device visits I'll
have a play there too :)
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Peter Galbavy wrote:
> Another minor one, probably mentioned in the long thread somewhere, but
> just for fun I tried the Alexa Windows app as a player and it doesn't
> work - but this is probably because it uses some off-net proxy (the
> private address space that I do not use is a good clue)
Another minor one, probably mentioned in the long thread somewhere, but
just for fun I tried the Alexa Windows app as a player and it doesn't
work - but this is probably because it uses some off-net proxy (the
private address space that I do not use is a good clue) of it's own, as
seen in the
philchillbill wrote:
> Amazon has freshly certified *V6.0* of MediaServer.
Many thanks for the new commands (early/recent/from/display), they are
working well. The early/recent is very useful with a large collection by
a particular artist and makes quick shuffled playback far easier than
Peter Galbavy wrote:
> It works! Thanks you. Take my money - literally. New subscriber now
> happy :)
>
> One more feature request for "one day" - The Echo Show 15 can be mounted
> in portrait mode and the normal display looked quite squashed in
> landscape. I am sure there is also some value
It works! Thanks you. Take my money - literally. New subscriber now
happy :)
One more feature request for "one day" - The Echo Show 15 can be mounted
in portrait mode and the normal display looked quite squashed in
landscape. I am sure there is also some value to looking at "widgets"
for the
Peter Galbavy wrote:
> Yeah, the Basic auth details for the proxy, when it doesn't need it,
> just drops through in the headers to the native HTTP interface and hence
> the UI works for me.
>
> In my case using a 3rd party proxy would still NOT work as I am not
> removing LMS password
Yeah, the Basic auth details for the proxy, when it doesn't need it,
just drops through in the headers to the native HTTP interface and hence
the UI works for me.
In my case using a 3rd party proxy would still NOT work as I am not
removing LMS password protection. I have "real" players outside
Peter Galbavy wrote:
> Because I enable password security on all my LMS instances by default?
> This is in fact what I use to protect my test proxy for your skills in
> testing - I don't have proxy passwords, instead using the user and
> password in LMS in the config and it works for everything
philchillbill wrote:
> The reason that the Stream commands are now free has to do with all the
> APL stuff recently added to MediaServer for the visuals. Handling that
> is way heavier on my back-end than streaming, so it no longer makes
> sense to see streaming as 'premium'. I also genuinely
philchillbill wrote:
> No, the http stream has to be unprotected. It is, after all, inside your
> LAN. Why would you want LMS to be password-protected for local use?
Because I enable password security on all my LMS instances by default?
This is in fact what I use to protect my test proxy for
Paul Webster wrote:
> Just tried to stream to an Echo Dot (2nd Gen I think) and it worked.
> But
. after about 10 minutes of playing the Dot showed a brief yellow
> ring and, I think, rebooted itself!
>
> Ill try a few more times later today to see if repeatable.
Yellow ring means the Echo
Just tried to stream to an Echo Dot (2nd Gen I think) and it worked.
But
. after about 10 minutes of playing the Dot showed a brief yellow
ring and, I think, rebooted itself!
Ill try a few more times later today to see if repeatable.
Paul Webster
author of \"now playing\" plugins covering
Amazon has freshly certified *V6.0* of MediaServer. Because there were
changes to the voice-model, the Alexa app will reflect it as updated
this time round. As always, you don't need to do anything for access
you invariably run the latest version whenever you invoke the skill.
- All
Peter Galbavy wrote:
> .
>
> Can Media Server LAN access to /stream.mp3 work with security enabled on
> the server?
No, the http stream has to be unprotected. It is, after all, inside your
LAN. Why would you want LMS to be password-protected for local use?
philchillbill wrote:
> That would indicate that the Echo didn't see a valid audio stream at the
> address that LMS resolves to in your LAN.
>
> The normal 'Play' commands just instruct LMS to talk to your players and
> feed them as LMS does. The 'Stream' commands are different by necessity
>
Based on @MrC's feedback (thanks!), the online setup instructions have
been updated to (hopefully) be clearer :cool:
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Nice replies, thanks. To be clear again, no criticism is/was meant in
my post. Just my feedback about the issues we faced.
philchillbill wrote:
>
> In reality, what other credentials might even be relevant? See
> https://mediaserver.smartskills.tech/ac-link-lms.html. It already says "
>
@chaug, I can see in the logs that your ARN is targeting US-East-1 (in
North Virginia) while your locale is set to en-GB. This means your
latency is quite high. I've had British expats in the US complain that
Alexa often misunderstood them with this combo.
You might fare better by setting
chaug wrote:
> This morning I had major issues with getting the skill to shuffle play
> my playlist. There were three songs that produced just silence, two of
> which I noted down and later tried to play using stream.mp3 as described
> above. Both of them played in the web browser.
>
> I also
This morning I had major issues with getting the skill to shuffle play
my playlist. There were three songs that produced just silence, two of
which I noted down and later tried to play using stream.mp3 as described
above. Both of them played in the web browser.
I also checked the alexa voice
chaug wrote:
> I don't see how the speed of my commands is a source of error. I speak
> at the same pace as you do in your demonstration video (which is good,
> btw. Very nice to get an idea of the app). Besides, there is not much
> pacing involved in "Alexa shuffle" or "Alexa, next".
MrC wrote:
>
> First and foremost, I want to say how much I appreciated your nicely
> designed software and web content, and your overall superb support for
> everyone here. This is the first mondo-thread where I read every post
> from 1 to n. Great work, and thank you.
Good to hear :cool:
philchillbill wrote:
> > >
- "Alexa, tell MediaServer to stream my -whatever- playlist".
> Subsequently: "Alexa, shuffle". You cannot do it with a single
> combined command. And it will not persist, because AlexaPlayers are
> temporary/ephemeral. An LMS limitation.
- It's not only
Hey Phil,
Wanted to give some feedback.
We recently tested our MediaServer (and LMS Lite) to see how it might
fit into our whole house audio system w/2 SB Touch devices.
First and foremost, I want to say how much I appreciated your nicely
designed software and web content, and your overall
chaug wrote:
>
> > >
- How can I start streaming an LMS-playlist in shuffle mode (so that
> it starts with a different track every time)
- What am I doing wrong with the no-invocation commands? I can
> confidently say that my english pronounciation is in no way unusual
> or
I'm desperately trying to get Alexa to stream a playlist (to Alexa
player) in shuffle mode but I can't figure out how to do it. It does
play the playlist but it always starts at the beginning. When I then say
"Alexa, shuffle" she doesn't recognize the command a lot of the times
and when she
Thanks for the detailed diagnostics and suggestions. Timezones mean that
I am too full of dinner and watching TV to check everything today, but
will go through it all tomorrow morning (my time).
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Peter Galbavy wrote:
> Thanks for the pointers, been there done those; Specifically:
>
> I tried "alexa, stream the album songs from the north" and she replies
> correctly and the album art appears. LAME is installed (docker container
> on a Synology) and - this is the fun bit - when I the open
Thanks for the pointers, been there done those; Specifically:
I tried "alexa, stream the album songs from the north" and she replies
correctly and the album art appears. LAME is installed (docker container
on a Synology) and - this is the fun bit - when I the open the
/stream.mp3 URL in my
Peter Galbavy wrote:
> I've gone through a somewhat convoluted set-up process, using my own
> proxy, and while the skill can control the player on my PC I cannot get
> it to either stream audio or assume a player for my Echo Show 8. If I
> tell media server to "assume the lounge player" is just
I've gone through a somewhat convoluted set-up process, using my own
proxy, and while the skill can control the player on my PC I cannot get
it to either stream audio or assume a player for my Echo Show 8. If I
tell media server to "assume the lounge player" is just says "cannot
find a player
Sorry for the potential FAQ, but this is a very long thread and there is
nothing in the first few pages;
Just populating a holiday home with Echo Show 8s (2nd gen) and thought
it would be nice to have LMS integration. I do not under any
circumstances whatsoever however want to use "some random
philchillbill wrote:
> The Stream commands use the /stream.mp3 endpoint in LMS so that means
> that LMS needs to be able to transcode your flacs to mp3. The echo can
> handle FLAC no problem (these days) but LMS cannot stream anything other
> than mp3.
>
> LMS should do that on the fly so if
Thanks to @chaug on the LMS-lite thread, there's now a documented
procedure for subscribing when Alexa tells you that subscriptions are
not available in your country/region.
See
https://mediaserver.smartskills.tech/mediaserverhelp.html#section-7-1-2
for a how-to.
Grizzly wrote:
> Excellent addition to my LMS setup thankyou. I was just catching up on
> the forum about developments etc and noticed the Stream command so
> thought I would check it out. Whilst everything appears to work. I do
> not get any output from my Echo (Show 8). Cover art is displayed
Excellent addition to my LMS setup thankyou. I was just catching up on
the forum about developments etc and noticed the Stream command so
thought I would check it out. Whilst everything appears to work. I do
not get any output from my Echo (Show 8). Cover art is displayed on the
Echo and lms
I have several new intents lined up for certification so now would be a
good time to tweak any misfirings in the voice model.
I find that Alexa often misunderstands me when I use the assume and
ungroup commands.
If you have any examples of commands that she often misunderstands for
you,
Tweaks:
* The ImageList APL template can now split the screen and start a new
row of Tiles per-artist when multiple artists match a requested song.
* When queueing multiple variations of a requested track, the queued vs
non-queued variants of the track appear above and below a scrollable
split.
Tweaks:
* Just added beep-when-touched functionality to the buttons on the
ImageList, TextList and FavList APL screens and to the buttons on the
PlayerControls popup.
* Fixed an issue introduced yesterday when the prev/next buttons on the
PlayerControls popup were used (the NowPlaying screen
mechaMecha wrote:
> I see. Thanks for the quick reply! The way I use Tidal and Qobuz most of
> the time is to check out artists and albums that I don't have in my
> local music library. I don't generally like to listen to the same songs
> over and over again. Is there any hope that this skill
andrewhess wrote:
> I have been referring to that list, so at least I have that going for
> me. :)
>
> I have Spotty on the LMS home menu, but I've renamed it to Spotify (not
> sure if that matters).
>
> I'll play around when I get home so I'll have more detailed info (or so
> I can let you
philchillbill wrote:
> There are no dedicated commands for Tidal and Qobuz, but any items
> visible to LMS via the online music service integration are accessible
> through all the regular skill commands for playing local LMS library
> items. For example, if you have a playlist called Chill on
I have been referring to that list, so at least I have that going for
me. :)
I have Spotty on the LMS home menu, but I've renamed it to Spotify (not
sure if that matters).
I'll play around when I get home so I'll have more detailed info (or so
I can let you know that I figured it out).
andrewhess wrote:
> I'm now realizing I may have been saying "Play in Spotify" but
> perhaps it has to be "Spotty"? I want MediaServer to search Spotify for
> the album or song and play it.
Alexa is rather specific with syntax, so guessing what a command -might
-be is usually not a good
philchillbill wrote:
> LMS-lite has no 'play xxx' commands at all so all it can do is transport
> commands. MediaServer can access any music items -already -visible in
> LMS. If you can see it in iPeng/Material/Default, you can just play it
> the same as with any local music file. What commands
andrewhess wrote:
> Any idea why I can't get Mediaserver or LMS-lite to play from Spotty? I
> thought that it would go to Spotify if the item wasn't in my personal
> library. I've also tried specifying Spotify, but that doesn't work
> either.
LMS-lite has no 'play xxx' commands at all so all
philchillbill wrote:
> There are no dedicated commands for Tidal and Qobuz, but any items
> visible to LMS via the online music service integration are accessible
> through all the regular skill commands for playing local LMS library
> items. For example, if you have a playlist called Chill on
mechaMecha wrote:
> I've noticed that there are some brief mentions of this MediaServer
> skill being able to control Tidal and Qobuz, but I haven't seen anything
> specific about how to invoke commands to do so. I apologize if this
> information can be found somewhere in this thread, but I've
I've noticed that there are some brief mentions of this MediaServer
skill being able to control Tidal and Qobuz, but I haven't seen anything
specific about how to invoke commands to do so. I apologize if this
information can be found somewhere in this thread, but I've done a bit
of searching
Some more APL tweaks:
* Progress bar is now the same color as the icons (wheat).
* Track *duration *in H:M:S appears in small text at the rightmost
extremity of the progress bar. Leading 0's are stripped.
* *Back *button is only shown when there is something to go back to.
* goBack behaviour is
andrewhess wrote:
> That did it! It must have been the reboot -- I saw the ngrok address
> change and - bang - I've got Mediaserver! Lot's to play with here. Thank
> you so much!
>
> Two small questions (I'm still reading through the thread, so apologies
> if it's already been covered):
>
> >
That did it! It must have been the reboot -- I saw the ngrok address
change and - bang - I've got Mediaserver! Lot's to play with here. Thank
you so much!
Two small questions (I'm still reading through the thread, so apologies
if it's already been covered):
- Can I rename the skill so I'm
Some minor APL tweaks:
* AlbumArtist is now shown in italics (if the tag is present)
* The progress bar changes to red if playback is paused or stopped
* The track-total is now shown in a smaller font than the curretn
track-index
* If the name of the genre is long enough to cause the
andrewhess wrote:
> Okay, that's weird. First, when I use my browser, I get:
> 36692
>
> When I click beyond it, my username and password are not accepted. I did
> have a password with $'s, but took those out. Neither password worked.
>
> ???
>
> Should I redo the configurator?
> Oh, and no
philchillbill wrote:
> Does your LMS have its own password possibility enabled?
> If so, that needs to be cancelled. Try your ngrok url in a browser with
> the credentials you entered in the configurator and see what error the
> browser gives you. It just leads to your :9000, after all.
>
>
>
andrewhess wrote:
> Any idea what I'm doing wrong? I created the tunnel in ngrok and see it
> in my dashboard. I ran 'sh setup.sh' in my picoreplayer and it ran
> successfully. I am entering the username and password I created when I
> created the tunnel. I even looked in setup.sh to make sure
Any idea what I'm doing wrong? I created the tunnel in ngrok and see it
in my dashboard. I am using the username and password I created when I
created the tunnel. I even looked in setup.sh and saw them there. I'm
even copying and pasting them, so I don't inadvertently misspell.
I think I've
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The skill's Now-Playing screen has a new button next to the progress-bar
(encircled in red in the image above). When you press it, a set of
Player Controls appears on the bottom of the screen for 15 seconds (or
until you click the little [X] in the top-right corner for immediate
closure).
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When you ask to play a named track, e.g. "Alexa, play the song
Cloudburst Flight" (by Tangerine Dream), the skill first searches for
all matches across your entire library. All variants with the same
base-title 'disappear' into a single queued variant that represents them
all. This is not
philchillbill wrote:
> Great. Sorry I didnt think of LAME earlier. Ill add it to the
> Troubleshooting guide in the online help.
Good idea to add the tip to the guide.
Cheers.
castalla wrote:
> and. SUCCESS! Fav 1 (bbc from Global player) now playing with
> artwork and sound.
Great. Sorry I didnt think of LAME earlier. Ill add it to the
Troubleshooting guide in the online help.
castalla wrote:
> That could be the problem. I believe it's an extension - need to
> investigate.
>
> Edit: lame now installed now. Will test later today (hospital visit
> for most of day)
and. SUCCESS! Fav 1 (bbc from Global player) now playing with
artwork and sound.
philchillbill wrote:
> Do you have Lame installed on your pi? Sounds like no transcoding
> happening.
That could be the problem. I believe it's an extension - need to
investigate.
expectingtofly wrote:
> I don't know anything about the how the Alexa skill works. But in terms
> of Global player, the plugin is just providing direct links to the
> remote stream (most of them are Mp4), the plugin is not doing anything
> with them, so the plugin is not really involved there
castalla wrote:
> Tried the browser route - small player shows but no sound.
Do you have Lame installed on your pi? Sounds like no transcoding
happening.
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philchillbill wrote:
> Well that would seem to indicate that your Show is not the issue. If you
> really want an icon then you can paste a *https* icon url into the
> favorites.opml file in your prefs folder. For LBC that would be
>
castalla wrote:
> Okay firmware is latest.
>
> It seems that the only streaming Favs which work are those from tuneib.
> Favs from Global Player and BBC Sounds refuse to play.
> Global shows metadata but SOUNDS just gives a blank black screen.
I don't know anything about the how the Alexa
castalla wrote:
> I used this as a fav:
>
> http://media-ice.musicradio.com/LBCUKMP3Low
>
> This works with sound and the wave bar artwork.
>
> Pity that Plugins are an issue.
>
> Thanks for the help.
Well that would seem to indicate that your Show is not the issue. If you
really want an
castalla wrote:
> I'll try to find a direct url to test.
I used this as a fav:
http://media-ice.musicradio.com/LBCUKMP3Low
This works with sound and the wave bar artwork.
Pity that Plugins are an issue.
Thanks for the help.
philchillbill wrote:
> Ok well then it must just be down to the combination of having to play
> via an LMS plugin and routing audio over /stream.mp3 is something that
> LMS does not support. There are often multiple urls possible for
> internet radio station so if you find one that does not
castalla wrote:
> Okay firmware is latest.
>
> It seems that the only streaming Favs which work are those from tuneib.
> Favs from Global Player and BBC Sounds refuse to play.
> Global shows metadata but SOUNDS just gives a blank black screen.
Ok well then it must just be down to the
philchillbill wrote:
> The gray radio mast is being returned by LMS (the skill's own fallback
> radio icon is a yellow wave-pattern) from your
> http://lmsip:9000/imageproxy. No idea why it's a default icon instead of
> the real deal.
>
> You can use Google to find how to check firmware
castalla wrote:
> Still getting the radio mast.
>
> The LBC favourite shows the full metadata with logo but totally silent.
>
> How do I check the Show is upto date?
>
> Edit:: added another favourite from Global Player. Same outcome
> metadata but no sound.
The gray radio mast is being
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