Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Problem getting m4a to play (trancoded?) on Transporter

2020-02-24 Thread rickwookie
bpa wrote: > m4a files can have many reasons not to be transcoded by faad. > > Can you confirm that faad and flac work OK on your Pi. Test by playing a > http/AAC stream > http://www.somafm.com/illstreet64.pls Yes, that's transcoding fine and plays on my Transporter. 29525 I don't why it's

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] LMS Screensaver Tweak possible (i.e. for SqueezeAmp and other smaller displays)?

2020-02-24 Thread ElFishi
slimhase wrote: > That works nice - great! > > This whole LMS System is just a treasure box - it keeps surprising me > with all its capabilities... not to mention the recent addition of the > material skin and all the development around SqueezeAMP and > SqueezeliteESP32 - it is really blowing

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] LMS Screensaver Tweak possible (i.e. for SqueezeAmp and other smaller displays)?

2020-02-24 Thread slimhase
ElFishi wrote: > I just tried the same but I didn't quite succeed: I can remove the notes > symbol from the display on my SqueezeliteESP32 with "Musik-Informations > Anzeige", but then the scrolling stops for the full size font. > Scrolling does work for the standard font and the two line display

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] LMS Screensaver Tweak possible (i.e. for SqueezeAmp and other smaller displays)?

2020-02-24 Thread ElFishi
slimhase wrote: > It works for me, but I am also a bit confused with the setup: > 1st of all within the LMS setup the different settings in > "Grundeinstellung" und "Anzeige" don't always do what I think they > should do in conjunction with SqueezeESP > (2nd, I think there is a bug somewhere in t

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] LMS Screensaver Tweak possible (i.e. for SqueezeAmp and other smaller displays)?

2020-02-24 Thread ElFishi
slimhase wrote: > It works for me (...) > Which Firmware version are you using? ElFishi's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15528 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=1

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] LMS Screensaver Tweak possible (i.e. for SqueezeAmp and other smaller displays)?

2020-02-24 Thread slimhase
ElFishi wrote: > Which Firmware version are you using? I am on latest fw: v0.5.435. Oh one other thing: For "Musik-Info-Anzeige", scrolling works for my only, if I populate only the leftmost entry ("Display-Element formatieren: Mitte links") for "Eine Zeile (Doppelte Höhe)" in "Musik-Info-Anzeig

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] LMS Screensaver Tweak possible (i.e. for SqueezeAmp and other smaller displays)?

2020-02-24 Thread ElFishi
slimhase wrote: > I am on latest fw: v0.5.435. > Oh one other thing: > For "Musik-Info-Anzeige", scrolling works for my only, if I populate > only the leftmost entry ("Display-Element formatieren: Mitte links") for > "Eine Zeile (Doppelte Höhe)" in "Musik-Info-Anzeige" and leave the > middle and

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Playlists are all empty

2020-02-24 Thread tdehan
w3wilkes wrote: > What do the contents of the playlists look like if you edit them? Do > they have relative filename locations or explicit filename locations? > What is the drive / directory your music is in and what drive / > directory is your playlist folder in? How do I edit them? The driv

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Playlists are all empty

2020-02-24 Thread garym
tdehan wrote: > How do I edit them? > > The drive and folder for my music is F:/Music > The drive and folder for my playlists is F:/Playlists open the m3u file with any text editor. *Home:* VBA 4TB (2.5)>LMS 7.9.2>Transporter, Touch, Boom, Radio (all ethernet) *Cottage:* VBA 3TB (2.4)>LMS 7

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Problem getting m4a to play (trancoded?) on Transporter

2020-02-24 Thread bpa
rickwookie wrote: > Yes, that's transcoding fine and plays on my Transporter. > > I notice that codec type is mentioned here (albeit as the "working" > codec): https://github.com/ralph-irving/faad2/issues/4 The problem is not the codec AAC but the file structure MPEG4 (aka mp4). faad support

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] LMS Screensaver Tweak possible (i.e. for SqueezeAmp and other smaller displays)?

2020-02-24 Thread slimhase
ElFishi wrote: > That was, it! Thank you. > From trying all sorts of options I left it using the middle entry. > I now only use the left entry and it scrolls. > ... Thats good to heas. Could you do me a favor: When you find some time: Could you play this stream for a while (i.e. 30 mins or so

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Problem getting m4a to play (trancoded?) on Transporter

2020-02-24 Thread rickwookie
bpa wrote: > The problem is not the codec AAC but the file structure MPEG4 (aka mp4). > > faad support some but not all the possibles variants of MPEG4. > > On LMS WebUI when you drill down onto the problem track - what does LMS > say the "File format" is (this is on the same display with "Vi

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Problem getting m4a to play (trancoded?) on Transporter

2020-02-24 Thread bpa
rickwookie wrote: > File Format: MPEG-4 > > That's the same as what mediainfo reports (see earlier screenie). MPEG4 is the most generic description. It doesn't tell how file is structured. In LMS there can be an additional qualification "leading audio" which gives a hint at structure. Your

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] LMS Screensaver Tweak possible (i.e. for SqueezeAmp and other smaller displays)?

2020-02-24 Thread ElFishi
slimhase wrote: > Thats good to heas. > > Could you do me a favor: > When you find some time: Could you play this stream for a while (i.e. 30 > mins or so) and see, if the information on the display is properly > updated -> is still what i.e. LMS says whats playing? > http://opml.radiotime.com/

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] LMS Screensaver Tweak possible (i.e. for SqueezeAmp and other smaller displays)?

2020-02-24 Thread ElFishi
ElFishi wrote: > I can do snow in 1 min: > >From the log I can see that squeezeESP32 picks up new title information but the display keeps scrolling old info including the snow. Are these titles too long, perhaps? ElFis

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] LMS Screensaver Tweak possible (i.e. for SqueezeAmp and other smaller displays)?

2020-02-24 Thread slimhase
ElFishi wrote: > From the log I can see that squeezeESP32 picks up new title information > but the display keeps scrolling old info including the snow. > Are these titles too long, perhaps? At least its reproducible! But I think its not only title length, but also related to fontsize, scroll-s

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] LMS Screensaver Tweak possible (i.e. for SqueezeAmp and other smaller displays)?

2020-02-24 Thread ElFishi
slimhase wrote: > > Its also great, that you can still see the log, as my display runs on > rx/tx pins > ! I get the log from the telnet interface. I put SDA to IO22, and SCL to IO23. ElFishi's Profile: http://forum

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Problem getting m4a to play (trancoded?) on Transporter

2020-02-24 Thread rickwookie
bpa wrote: > MPEG4 is the most generic description. It doesn't tell how file is > structured. In LMS there can be an additional qualification "leading > audio" which gives a hint at structure. > > Your problem is odd - usually files can be played using faad but fail > when playing natively o

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] LMS Screensaver Tweak possible (i.e. for SqueezeAmp and other smaller displays)?

2020-02-24 Thread philippe_44
ElFishi wrote: > From the log I can see that squeezeESP32 picks up new title information > but the display keeps scrolling old info including the snow. > Are these titles too long, perhaps? > > Edit: the log says they are: grfs_handler:583 scroller too larger > 5688/5120 What LMS version are

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Problem getting m4a to play (trancoded?) on Transporter

2020-02-24 Thread rickwookie
I'm happy to DM you a link to one of the curious tracks if you're interested, but I think the sensible thing for me to do in the circumstances is just re-encode that one album and see if it fixes it, because clearly there's nothing wrong with my transcoding settings if they work for every other m

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] LMS Screensaver Tweak possible (i.e. for SqueezeAmp and other smaller displays)?

2020-02-24 Thread ElFishi
philippe_44 wrote: > What LMS version are you running? There is a hard limit to 10 screen > width of scrolling in what I've seen Logitech Media Server Version: 7.9.2 - 1578996832 @ Tue Jan 14 12:21:10 CET 2020 ElFishi's

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] LMS Screensaver Tweak possible (i.e. for SqueezeAmp and other smaller displays)?

2020-02-24 Thread philippe_44
slimhase wrote: > Thats good to heas. > > Could you do me a favor: > When you find some time: Could you play this stream for a while (i.e. 30 > mins or so) and see, if the information on the display is properly > updated -> is still what i.e. LMS says whats playing? > http://opml.radiotime.com/

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Problem getting m4a to play (trancoded?) on Transporter

2020-02-24 Thread bpa
rickwookie wrote: > I'm happy to DM you a link to one of the curious tracks if you're > interested, but I think the sensible thing for me to do in the > circumstances is just re-encode that one album and see if it fixes it, > because clearly there's nothing wrong with my transcoding settings if

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] LMS Screensaver Tweak possible (i.e. for SqueezeAmp and other smaller displays)?

2020-02-24 Thread ElFishi
philippe_44 wrote: > That link does not work for me It's Deutschlandfunk ElFishi's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15528 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111675 _

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] LMS Screensaver Tweak possible (i.e. for SqueezeAmp and other smaller displays)?

2020-02-24 Thread ElFishi
philippe_44 wrote: > There is a hard limit to 10 screen width of scrolling in what I've seen Factor of screen width makes sense: I just had a title show OK with standard font, switched to full font and harvested a "grfs_handler:583 scroller too larger 5368/5120" ---

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] LMS Screensaver Tweak possible (i.e. for SqueezeAmp and other smaller displays)?

2020-02-24 Thread philippe_44
ElFishi wrote: > Factor of screen width makes sense: I just had a title show OK with > standard font, switched to full font and harvested a "grfs_handler:583 > scroller too larger 5368/5120" And that’s strange. But I’ve now put a limit so that the scroll is managed correctly even in that case

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Problem getting m4a to play (trancoded?) on Transporter

2020-02-24 Thread rickwookie
bpa wrote: > I'd be interested to examine the track in detail. It;'s the only way to > tackle these odd issues., MPEG4 has many options and so hard to say > offhand what the issue could be. You can use something like ffmpeg to > re-encode without having to rerip but it is not a friendly tool.

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Problem getting m4a to play (trancoded?) on Transporter

2020-02-24 Thread bpa
rickwookie wrote: > Well that had me foxed for a good while before I spotted the rogue " > after faad. Sorry the cut & paste missed one char. Got the two files. At first glance the problem file has embedded image as a track #0 & audio in track #1 and IIRC faad expects audio to be in track #0

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Problem getting m4a to play (trancoded?) on Transporter

2020-02-24 Thread bpa
The following command will strip out the "video" channel which is upsetting faad and create a file called output.mp4 Code: ffmpeg -i '24 Time to Go to Sleep.m4a' -map 0 -map -0:v -c copy output.mp4 A more generic solution would be to use ff

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] QLogitechMediaServer for Qnap with QTS 4.2 or higher and x86_64/I686/X86 support !

2020-02-24 Thread digimaster
* == QLogitechMediaServer version 2.10.06 = 24-02-2020 ! Sometimes it keeped using the lowest Perl version. FIXED + Now will also shows the download and file checking messages in the QNap webgui. ! The Restore did not work anymore. FIXED VERY IM

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Problem getting m4a to play (trancoded?) on Transporter

2020-02-24 Thread rickwookie
Hmm... Code: root@SqueezePlug:~# ffmpeg -i "/mnt/samba/Music/Albums/Various Artists - In the Night Garden/24 Time to Go to Sleep.m4a" ffmpeg version 0.8.21-6:0.8.21-0+deb7u1+rpi1, Copyright (c) 2000-2014 the Libav developers built on Oct 26 2017 14:35:48 with g

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Problem getting m4a to play (trancoded?) on Transporter

2020-02-24 Thread bpa
rickwookie wrote: > Hmm... IIRC There was a "split" in the developers - so some distros have avconv others have ffmpeg. Usually interchanegable except for some build options. What happened to the remainder of the command in red ? avconv -i "/mnt/samba/Music/Albums/Various Artists - In the Ni

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] LMS on Raspberri PI

2020-02-24 Thread miludeca
Hello all. Apologies - these are probably dumb questions, but it's been a long time since I set up my system and I've forgotten most of what I knew back then. 1. I am/was running Logitech Media Server on a Netgear ReadyNAS Duo v2. I use it to serve up flac music files and also ripped my entire

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Problem getting m4a to play (trancoded?) on Transporter

2020-02-24 Thread rickwookie
bpa wrote: > IIRC There was a "split" in the developers - so some distros have avconv > others have ffmpeg. Usually interchanegable except for some build > options. > > What happened to the remainder of the command in red ? > > avconv -i "/mnt/samba/Music/Albums/Various Artists - In the Night

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] LMS on Raspberri PI

2020-02-24 Thread garym
miludeca wrote: > Hello all. > Apologies - these are probably dumb questions, but it's been a long time > since I set up my system and I've forgotten most of what I knew back > then. > > 1. I am/was running Logitech Media Server on a Netgear ReadyNAS Duo v2. > I use it to serve up flac music f

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Problem getting m4a to play (trancoded?) on Transporter

2020-02-24 Thread bpa
The output of the conversion Code: ffmpeg version 3.4.6-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 Copyright (c) 2000-2019 the FFmpeg developers built with gcc 7 (Ubuntu 7.3.0-16ubuntu3) configuration: --prefix=/usr --extra-version=0ubuntu0.18.04.1 --toolchain=hardened --libdir=/usr/lib/x

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Problem getting m4a to play (trancoded?) on Transporter

2020-02-24 Thread bpa
rickwookie wrote: > Where are you seeing that the audio is not the first track in the file? > If I use another tool I have on windows (AVANTI GUI, basically a GUI for > the ffmpeg command) and use my duff m4a as the input file it reads it > as: This is MPEG-4 - not thre same as tracks in a CD

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Problem getting m4a to play (trancoded?) on Transporter

2020-02-24 Thread rickwookie
bpa wrote: > This is MPEG-4 - not thre same as tracks in a CD > > This mean there is a stream which has a video track and an audio track - > faad doesn't like "video" parts as MPEG4 support was grafted on whereas > Touch has a proper MPEG4 decoder which can ignore video. Oh I see, the problem

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Problem getting m4a to play (trancoded?) on Transporter

2020-02-24 Thread rickwookie
Ok, I've run the file through ffmpeg (a newer version on my Windows machine) with the stream copy options as you suggested, and sure enough that file plays fine. However, I'm confused as to why what is essentially just the embedded cover art is causing the problem. Lots of the other m4a files I h

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Problem getting m4a to play (trancoded?) on Transporter

2020-02-24 Thread bpa
rickwookie wrote: > Ok, I've run the file through ffmpeg (a newer version on my Windows > machine) with the stream copy options as you suggested, and sure enough > that file plays fine. However, I'm confused as to why what is > essentially just the embedded cover art is causing the problem. Lots

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Problem getting m4a to play (trancoded?) on Transporter

2020-02-24 Thread rickwookie
bpa wrote: > The problem is that it is not a embedded covert which is metadata. It > has been stored as a single stream which has a video and audio component > - just like a full movie. faad was initially just a AAC decoder from > ADTS fromatted streams and then a partial MPEG4 format decoder e

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Problem getting m4a to play (trancoded?) on Transporter

2020-02-24 Thread bpa
rickwookie wrote: > But that file plays fine on the Transporter via faad. If you give the command you used to reinsert the art, I'll try to reproduce. I've other tools to pull MPEG4 files apart down to the "atoms" as file structure is probably the underlying issue (the order of "atoms" can ma

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Problem getting m4a to play (trancoded?) on Transporter

2020-02-24 Thread bpa
One of these other tools which is old an date & bit unreliable but then again it may be very picky gives this output Code: # mp4info "24 Time to Go to Sleep.m4a" 24 Time to Go to Sleep.m4a: ReadAtom: "24 Time to Go to Sleep.m4a": invalid atom size, extends outsi

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Problem getting m4a to play (trancoded?) on Transporter

2020-02-24 Thread bpa
It's late & i'm not doing anything else tonight - your link to fixed file doesn't seem to work. So just give commands used to extract and reinsert the art. bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=18

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Problem getting m4a to play (trancoded?) on Transporter

2020-02-24 Thread rickwookie
bpa wrote: > If you give the command you used to reinsert the art, I'll try to > reproduce. I've other tools to pull MPEG4 files apart down to the > "atoms" as file structure is probably the underlying issue (the order of > "atoms" can matter) . But as I said in my previous post - the problem

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Problem getting m4a to play (trancoded?) on Transporter

2020-02-24 Thread rickwookie
bpa wrote: > It's late & i'm not doing anything else tonight - your link to fixed > file doesn't seem to work. So just give commands used to extract and > reinsert the art. > > edit: > > the link has "..." in it so it isn't complete. Re sent the fixed link. I can't give the commands as such,

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] QLogitechMediaServer for Qnap with QTS 4.2 or higher and x86_64/I686/X86 support !

2020-02-24 Thread digimaster
* This is the layout of QLogitechMediaServer which can be found in the .qpkg/QLogitechMediaServer directory. Logonon by ssh shell, and do [ cd /share/*/.qpkg/QLogitechMediaServer ], this should bring you to the right directory ! You could set several option if needed, but be careful, it could ma