Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Spotty file formats - I'm a little confused

2018-08-24 Thread Michael Herger
I think I understand, but just to make sure. It seems like Spotify uses Ogg Vorbis, but does not pass through the information needed to uncompress the file back to it's original form (I think that is They apply lossy compression. Which means the delete some information in order to make the

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Spotty file formats - I'm a little confused

2018-08-24 Thread wmupchurch
Thank you Michael. I think I understand, but just to make sure. It seems like Spotify uses Ogg Vorbis, but does not pass through the information needed to uncompress the file back to it's original form (I think that is possible; they just don't to it), therefore, when Spotty uncompresses the

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Spotty file formats - I'm a little confused

2018-08-24 Thread ralphy
Mnyb wrote: > Another issue altogether. OGG Flac is another format different from > spotify. > It is flac in an ogg container . Squeezelite probably cant do this > natively hence LMS > Transcoding. Squeezelite includes the Ogg Flac (ogf) decoder. The JB Radio-2 URL:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Spotty file formats - I'm a little confused

2018-08-24 Thread Mnyb
Man in a van wrote: > So the same is happening when I stream JB-Radio2? > > 25517 > > which plays on VLC > > 25518 > > > Ronnie Another issue altogether. OGG Flac is another format different from spotify. It is flac in an ogg container . Squeezelite probably cant do this natively hence

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Spotty file formats - I'm a little confused

2018-08-24 Thread Man in a van
mherger wrote: > > Honestly I'm not exactly sure how it all works. Is this happening?> > > Spotify sends 320kbps Ogg Voris to LMS/Spotty, which converts it to > PCM > > or FLAC depending on the options enabled in the file type settings? > Is > > Exactly: no matter whether you choose PCM or

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Spotty file formats - I'm a little confused

2018-08-23 Thread Michael Herger
So let me now ask a really crazy questions. It seems that Ogg Vorbis (lossy) compression can or cannot contain FLAC or PCM (lossless) music. If that's the case AND Spotify uses Ogg Vorbis in a way that FLAC and PCM information is 'contained', then when you un-compress the Spotify Ogg Vorbis

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Spotty file formats - I'm a little confused

2018-08-23 Thread Mnyb
wmupchurch wrote: > Thank you Michael! > > So let me now ask a really crazy questions. It seems that Ogg Vorbis > (lossy) compression can or cannot contain FLAC or PCM (lossless) music. > If that's the case AND Spotify uses Ogg Vorbis in a way that FLAC and > PCM information is 'contained',

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Spotty file formats - I'm a little confused

2018-08-23 Thread wmupchurch
Thank you Michael! So let me now ask a really crazy questions. It seems that Ogg Vorbis (lossy) compression can or cannot contain FLAC or PCM (lossless) music. If that's the case AND Spotify uses Ogg Vorbis in a way that FLAC and PCM information is 'contained', then when you un-compress the

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Spotty file formats - I'm a little confused

2018-08-23 Thread Michael Herger
Honestly I'm not exactly sure how it all works. Is this happening?> Spotify sends 320kbps Ogg Voris to LMS/Spotty, which converts it to PCM or FLAC depending on the options enabled in the file type settings? Is Exactly: no matter whether you choose PCM or FLAC, the data is the same. It's

[SlimDevices: Plugins] Spotty file formats - I'm a little confused

2018-08-22 Thread wmupchurch
Hi, first of all thank you for Spotty! Now my confusion. If is disable FLAC, when I play songs I see this: 1411kbps CBR, Ogg Vorbis (Spotify) (Converted to PCM) When I enable FLAC, I see this: 705kbps CBR, Ogg Vorbis (Spotify) (Converted to FLAC) I though FLAC was the highest quality