lossless internet radio streaming in FLAC!

[Phileas]

I removed the 'resample=44100:0:1' directive from mplayer and set the flac parameter to 48000.

Sorry if this seems a silly question, but where's this flac parameter - on the same line?

Is this line of code all I'm supposed to do to get the stream playable? I'm only getting silence at the moment and a reported (in SC) bitrate of 128kb/s OGG. Do I have to disable some of the other options in conv.conf?

Phileas

[amcluesent]

I was meaning the sample rate parameter to the flac command needs to be matched to 48000, so in convert.conf I commented out this

#ogg flc * *
#	# IFRD:{RESAMPLE=-r %d}
#	[sox] -t ogg $FILE$ -t flac -C 0 $RESAMPLE$ -

and replaced with this

ogg flc * *
	# R
	[mplayer] -really-quiet -vc null -vo null -cache 512 -af volume=0,channels=2 -ao pcm:nowaveheader:file=#PIPE# $FILE$ | [flac] -cs --totally-silent --endian=little --channels=2 --sign=signed --bps=16 --sample-rate=48000 --compression-level-0 -

Restart Squeezcenter, then in the filetypes menu, I set the FLAC handling of Ogg Vorbis to be "mplayer/flac" from the dropdown options and disabled the others.

The Squeezebox display shows 128kbps, but I assume that's just an aberration.

[bpa]

A word of warning - the suggested 48000 solution will makew Flac assume all streams from mplayer are 48kHz so that if you try to play a stream with 44.1kHz you will get speed problems. A proper solution would be to have mplayer send a WAV header so that sample rates are matched.

[Phileas]

I was meaning the sample rate parameter to the flac command needs to be matched to 48000, so in convert.conf I commented out this

#ogg flc * *
#	# IFRD:{RESAMPLE=-r %d}
#	[sox] -t ogg $FILE$ -t flac -C 0 $RESAMPLE$ -

and replaced with this

ogg flc * *
	# R
	[mplayer] -really-quiet -vc null -vo null -cache 512 -af volume=0,channels=2 -ao pcm:nowaveheader:file=#PIPE# $FILE$ | [flac] -cs --totally-silent --endian=little --channels=2 --sign=signed --bps=16 --sample-rate=48000 --compression-level-0 -

Restart Squeezcenter, then in the filetypes menu, I set the FLAC handling of Ogg Vorbis to be "mplayer/flac" from the dropdown options and disabled the others.

The Squeezebox display shows 128kbps, but I assume that's just an aberration.

Ah - that's it. Thanks.

Phileas

[Labarum]

So what's the answer for the relatively non technical?

When will SB stream

http://radio.cesnet.cz:8000/cro-d-dur.flac

I have just set up my new Beresford Caiman to use Foobar with WASAPI from my laptop into the USB input.

Foobar will stream

http://radio.cesnet.cz:8000/cro-d-dur.flac

and that station is amazing.

When, O when Squeezebox gurus?

[andyg]

Yeah this is really interesting to me too, but we just don't have time to work on it right now. I have filed an enhancement though: http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=12893

[Labarum]

Thanks Andy. I will have to be patient!

[ian_heys]

Just wanted to say that the station's (D-Dur) homepage has a fantastic free flac download offer of the 6 Brandenburg Concertos by Musica Florea.

They sound fantastic.

http://www.rozhlas.cz/d-dur/english

Will vote for the bug as soon as my Bugzilla account is created.

[Labarum]

Yes, they are very good.

[Quad]

Hi there

Unfortunately the hack doesn't work anymore with 7.4. Could one of the pros give me a hint what I will have to change on these lines to make it work again? D-dur in FLAC turned out to be my favored classical station.

(I don't care if OGG files are not playable and all the OGG streams I'm listening to are 48kHz.)

ogg flc * *
      # R
      [mplayer] -really-quiet -vc null -vo null -cache 256 -af volume=0,channels=2 -ao pcm:nowaveheader:file=#PIPE# $FILE$ | [flac] -cs --totally-silent --endian=little --channels=2 --sign=signed --bps=16 --sample-rate=48000 --compression-level-0 -

Thanks!