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MusicBee Wishlist / Re: UPNP

« on: November 20, 2014, 09:41:07 PM »

Tried again with latest updates.
(and set 'device rendering capabilities' from 22050 to 48000 to be sure)

Back to the old flac problems.
Flac won't play. Only silence/noise bursts.
foobar plays the same file without any problem.
Tried again with MB, still the same problem.

In my testing efforts, once even foobar didn't play anymore after some unsuccessful tries with MB, and had to restart my pc to get it playing again.

new logs from fb & mb uploaded

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MusicBee Wishlist / Re: UPNP

« on: November 20, 2014, 11:23:05 AM »

Wow, thank you!

That indeed helps. Without using RG, flac is now playing indeed!
I don't understand though, the flac file is 44100, and also I set the MB plugin to 44100.

Probably later today I will start experimenting more, then using the new versions Steven uploaded today.
Thanks to you we might be making some good progress here!

7713

MusicBee Wishlist / Re: UPNP

« on: November 20, 2014, 09:10:33 AM »

Will do, probably tonight or tomorrow.
Cheers.

7714

MusicBee Wishlist / Re: UPNP

« on: November 20, 2014, 09:09:37 AM »

What I don't understand, with this settings:



shouldn't MB transcode flac files to mp3 on the fly, and then shouldn't lpcm be any issue at all?
If we can't get flac to work, I would be happy to have flacs transcoded to mp3 on the fly.

fyi,
With this setting flac does not play, but there are no errors displaying, no silence/bursts, but to my slight surprise the Squeezebox is displaying the correct file info on it's display.

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MusicBee Wishlist / Re: UPNP

« on: November 20, 2014, 08:50:31 AM »

could you play a flac file in foobar and send me the foobar log

Do you require specific settings in FB when I test this?

7716

MusicBee Wishlist / Bringing some date/year fields together in one location?

« on: November 19, 2014, 09:11:21 PM »

This is a thought that has been in my mind for a long time, but I'm aware it probably has too many complications and will be prone to too much objections. But still I thought to release it and get it out of my head.

As we know the concept of 'Date' or 'Year' is quite a mess in the Land of Tagging. There is hardly any agreement or logic in what 'released', 'original year', 'recorded' etc. exactly states, and how it should be used.
Most of us trying to use the date possibilities more extensive and 'correct', will have a hard struggle finding workable schemes or mappings.
Thankfully this is all very doable with MusicBee with using custom and virtual tags and/or mappings if you put some thought and effort in it.

My idea is mainly to get some date fields showing together, with the possibility to map and name them from one place.
Even if it is only to get the sense you have some more control over it ;-)
Fiddling around with PhotoShop it could look something like this:



It could then be configurable what date/year information, and what naming one wants to use for Year 1, 2 and 3, and from there give easier access to mapping and tagging fields used.

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MusicBee Wishlist / Re: UPNP

« on: November 19, 2014, 08:00:28 PM »

I can't remember for sure, but I don't believe FB took time to find the players. I wouldn't worry about that for now since I am not able to replicate that behavior at the moment.

I uploaded two new logs.
One is called 'erratic', since I kind of erratically tried several settings, but none of them giving any improvement, and all the earlier mentioned errors.
The other one is one with a shorter more thought-through exercise: I set continuous streaming to 'off', set MB to use smart gain, then first played a flac with ReplayGain value, and then the same flac song without RG value.
The one with RG did not play at all, and the one without RG played (with silence/noise problem though)

edit,
I'm loosing my mind, now suddenly flac is playing well without any stutters.
....unless I set MB to use Smart Gain, then nothing plays anymore, without any errors displaying. (error log #3 added... )

Can you also see my plugin preferences settings in the logs? I'd hate it if I complicate stuff because of settings I changed there.
When my head is a bit clearer then tonight I'll see if I can think of some systematic testing and feedback. I'm getting a bit to confused now.

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MusicBee Wishlist / Re: UPNP

« on: November 19, 2014, 09:10:24 AM »

The first time after installing both updates and restarting my pc and MB, both TV and SB wouldn't play.
It did after first starting up and playing and closing FB once, and then starting MB again.
After following restarts this doesn't seem to happen anymore, and both TV and SB play fine with MB.

Playing FLAC gives the same problem playing to SB. Starting with silence, and then only repeating noise bursts every few periods.
I notice the time indicator on MB going back and forth between 0:00 and 0:01 sec.

I uploaded two new logs.
The first when trying to play MB the first time after restart, and it wouldn't play.
The second as it's working now, with the flac problem.

7719

MusicBee Wishlist / Re: UPNP

« on: November 18, 2014, 08:07:59 PM »

I haven't been testing today, but the silences/bursts happened only in the last version, where I believe you added 127.0.0.1.
Before that, when it played, it played well.
I'll begin experimenting again probably tomorrow.

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MusicBee Wishlist / Re: UPNP

« on: November 17, 2014, 10:15:11 PM »

That seems to work. At first MB startup it only saw my wireless attached SB (i5 Eet), after the second startup MB also saw my wired SB (i5 Woon).
On a side-note for now, MP3's are playing well, but flac playback is very bad; silences, ugly noise bursts, etc.
I'll try to give some sensible feedback on this with different files and settings in the coming days. I'll also then try ReplayGain, Continuous stream, etc.

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MusicBee Wishlist / Re: UPNP

« on: November 17, 2014, 09:52:46 PM »

No problem, I'll leave everything running as it is. No hurries, take all the time you need.

7722

MusicBee Wishlist / Re: UPNP

« on: November 17, 2014, 09:16:31 PM »

New log uploaded.
Opened MB, SB not visible. Opened FB, SB visible and playing. Closed FB and opened MB again, SB not visible.
Tomorrow I'll restart router, PC etc. That might result in everything working again, but today I left it as it was for the sake of bug-hunting.

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MusicBee Wishlist / Re: UPNP

« on: November 17, 2014, 09:21:31 AM »

Yep, several times.

7724

MusicBee Wishlist / Re: UPNP

« on: November 17, 2014, 08:33:34 AM »

I started up my PC this morning, and MB does not 'see' the Squeezeboxes anymore.
FB does, and plays well.
new logs from both FB and MB uploaded

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MusicBee Wishlist / Re: UPNP

« on: November 16, 2014, 08:51:16 PM »

Bad news.

You will have to empty the bottle.

Cheers!