[SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Enable Bluetooth streaming to LMS

2021-02-23 Thread tr0ner
Hello guys, I noticed that picoreplayer and max2play have the feature to stream bluetooth audio from a phone to LMS/Squeezelite. I could not find any tutorial on how to set this up on a headless raspian installation. There are several other services running on my pi, so unfortunately I cannot j

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Random Mix Problems

2018-05-24 Thread tr0ner
mherger wrote: > > I'll go grab a spare Pi and let it deal with my 100k collection :-). > > Can't guarantee this is representative for your situation. But on that > Pi2 the latest changes sped up the creation of the list by about 500%. > The overhead was _not_ in disk I/O, but unnecessary over

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Random Mix Problems

2018-05-24 Thread tr0ner
mherger wrote: > Would you guys be willing and able to replace a file or two to test some > > changes? I think I have something which could improve your situation. > I'm not saying it will resolve all performance issues with RandomPlay, > but improve the situation :-). I have to measure it on

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Random Mix Problems

2018-05-24 Thread tr0ner
slartibartfast wrote: > Starting a random mix on a Pi 3 with around 47000 tracks takes long > enough to stop playback for about 20 seconds while playing a 320k radio > station. Playback continues for 10 seconds after triggering the song mix > before stopping so 30 seconds in total before the mix

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Random Mix Problems

2018-05-24 Thread tr0ner
mherger wrote: > > C'mon!... now that I've started to look into the RandomPlay > bottlenecks > > with a 100k "collection" :-). There definitely is some unnecessary > > overhead. But I'm not sure this could be turned into one snappy action > > > without re-implementing a lot of the performance

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Random Mix Problems

2018-05-23 Thread tr0ner
mherger wrote: > > As a returnee are you aware of the now built in DSTM (Don’t Stop > The > > Music) feature and Michael’s Lastmix plugin? > > > > The combination is IMHO a much better option than Random Mix. > > But it requires accurate tags. Eg. the mapping from Last.fm's results to > >

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Random Mix Problems

2018-05-23 Thread tr0ner
d6jg wrote: > At a slight tangent > > As a returnee are you aware of the now built in DSTM (Don’t Stop The > Music) feature and Michael’s Lastmix plugin? > > The combination is IMHO a much better option than Random Mix. wow, i was not aware of that feature - it works perfectly. Thank you very

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Random Mix Problems

2018-05-23 Thread tr0ner
slartibartfast wrote: > Are you including all genres? I found deselecting a few such as > Christmas and Live helped probably because "Live" is a fairly large > fraction of my collection. > > Sent from my SM-G900F using Tapatalk If I only select 1 genre it works a lot faster and also starts the

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Random Mix Problems

2018-05-23 Thread tr0ner
Please define "crash": is it exiting the process, or is it just locking up for a good while? That's a fundamental difference, though the UX might be the same. >From what it looks like it does not really crash but becomes completely unresponsive for a few minutes (playback stops, webinterface is

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Random Mix Problems

2018-05-23 Thread tr0ner
slartibartfast wrote: > Are you including all genres? I found deselecting a few such as > Christmas and Live helped probably because "Live" is a fairly large > fraction of my collection. > > Sent from my SM-G900F using Tapatalk Thank you for you reply. I removed a few genres but not most of the

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Random Mix Problems

2018-05-23 Thread tr0ner
Hi Michael, thank you for coming back to me. I already tried to set the memory usage to maximum, unfortunately it made 0 difference. I have about 250.000 tracks in the library. (Like I said the library is a total mess) The strange thing is that the server handles it perfectely when listing arti

[SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Random Mix Problems

2018-05-22 Thread tr0ner
Hi guys, I just came back to lms in combination with the picoreplayer after serveral years using another audio straming solution. Everything runs smoothly and I am happy to see that there still is an active community. There is just one problem which is very annoying: Whenever I want to start a