Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Force LMS mono output

2019-12-29 Thread paul-
Yes, it’s still a thing..but hard to make that page completely flexible. I’ve been playing with asound.conf configurations for alsaequal integration with Bluetooth. Very flexible configuration, but not very intuitive. piCorePlayer a small player for the Raspberry Pi in RAM. Homepage:

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Force LMS mono output

2019-12-29 Thread Guy Stalnaker
D'OH! In the worst type of faux pas -- I "discovered" tonight that the piCorePlayer Extras option other posters have mentioned IS STILL A THING. But it's not a item on the tab bar. It's a button on the Main Page that is only visible if Beta mode is selected. I mistakenly thought that the Tweaks

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Force LMS mono output

2019-12-28 Thread Apesbrain
Ok, you are misunderstanding what is happening here. No files are being altered. LMS is applying the SoX effect in real-time. Anyway, you have other options described here that might be better suited for RPi. Apesbrain's

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Force LMS mono output

2019-12-28 Thread Apesbrain
Ok, you are misunderstanding what is happening here. No files are being altered. LMS is applying the SoX effect in real-time. Anyway, you have other option described here that might be better suited for a RPi server.

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Force LMS mono output

2019-12-28 Thread Guy Stalnaker
DOUBLE OUCH! With a 57,000+ library, converting all mp3 to flac isn't happening in my lifetime (roughly 75% are mp3). You've been a great help, but we can stop this now. I'd hoped doing this would be relatively easy, but it (as is true of much in life) is not. It would be far easier to do this

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Force LMS mono output

2019-12-28 Thread Apesbrain
Ok, if this works for you and you have a lot of mid/low-bitrate MP3 there is in fact a way to do it without transcoding. You have to disable native hardware MP3 playback and convert all MP3 to FLAC on the server. However, for 320kbps MP3 transcoding has very little audible effect.

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Force LMS mono output

2019-12-28 Thread Guy Stalnaker
OUCH!! LOL Much thanks apesbrain -- I would not have gotten (did not get) to that level of complexity in the CLI. I see and understand what you've done (decode to WAV, pipe to sox to downmix to mono, pipe to lame to re-encode). Very much appreciate your help. Guy Guy Stalnaker

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Force LMS mono output

2019-12-28 Thread Apesbrain
Contents of custom-config.conf going to be something like this: Code: flc flc * * # FT:{START=--skip=%t}U:{END=--until=%v}D:{RESAMPLE=-r %d} [flac] -dcs $START$ $END$ -- $FILE$ | [sox] -q -t wav - -t wav $RESAMPLE$ - channels 1 | [flac] -cs

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Force LMS mono output

2019-12-28 Thread Guy Stalnaker
Roland0 -- downmix to mono. I knew of the Channel output option already. That that is only Stereo/Right/Left with no down-mix. The situation is complicated by my use of piCorePlayer, SqueezeLite, LMS, and a HifiBerry audio card (so, for example, using /etc/asound.conf does not work--at least, not

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Force LMS mono output

2019-12-28 Thread paul-
For pCP, look at this post. https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?105470-PicorePlayer-and-LMS-how-to-get-a-MONO-downmix=851124=1#post851124 piCorePlayer a small player for the Raspberry Pi in RAM. Homepage: https://www.picoreplayer.org Please 'donate'

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Force LMS mono output

2019-12-28 Thread Guy Stalnaker
Curious about the formatting of the custom-convert.conf file. If I want *all* output to mono, does this do that: {conf} #mp3 mp3 squeezebox 00:02:dd:34:e9:62 # ./brute_filter $FILE$ - * * * * [sox] $FILES$ channels 1 - {conf} I read the file instructions to support this: # First line format:

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Force LMS mono output

2019-12-28 Thread Roland0
Maybe you could describe what you want to archive - play one channel on one player, or down-mix stereo to mono (and then do what with it)? If it's the former, LMS can do it out of the box (settings>player>audio>Output Channel Mode), if it's the latter, the aforementioned sox or ALSA methods may

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Force LMS mono output

2019-12-28 Thread Guy Stalnaker
Apesbrain, I'd found the "sox remix -" CLI option. I assumed (!) that it should be used with a SqueezeLite configuration but I could not see where to use it (had tried messing with /etc/asound.conf but that didn't work). You suggest using it as an option in the LMS config by adding a section to

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Force LMS mono output

2019-12-28 Thread Guy Stalnaker
Paul, This is an LMS server using SqueezeLite installed via piCorePlayer. Guy Stalnaker jimmyg...@gmail.com On Sat, Dec 28, 2019 at 12:56 PM paul- < paul-.9bs...@no-mx.forums.slimdevices.com> wrote: > > What is the player. a linux based player can do it easily with > Alsa. > > > >

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Force LMS mono output

2019-12-28 Thread paul-
What is the player. a linux based player can do it easily with Alsa. piCorePlayer a small player for the Raspberry Pi in RAM. Homepage: https://www.picoreplayer.org Please 'donate'

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Force LMS mono output

2019-12-28 Thread Apesbrain
Yup, use SoX via custom-convert.conf: https://sourceforge.net/p/sox/mailman/message/27737537/ Apesbrain's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=738 View this thread:

[SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Force LMS mono output

2019-12-27 Thread Guy Stalnaker
Is there a way to do this not using cables but software? -- “Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.” ― Aristotle ___ Squeezecenter mailing list Squeezecenter@lists.slimdevices.com