lossless internet radio streaming in FLAC!

[bpa]

You might be able to do it using Virtual Audio Cable ( http://software.muzychenko.net/eng/vac.html )and possibly VLC if icecast doesn't work.

[amcluesent]

>There is a workaround which keeps me happy for the moment. I added this line to the AlienBBC plugin and it works!<

Is it possible to edit something similar into convert.conf so Squeezecenter can handle the stream without the AleienBBC plug-in?

[bpa]

You can add the lines into the convert.conf file and they will take effect at next SC restart. You will need mplayer to be installed on the Windows path or in the SC Bin\MSwin32... directory (same location as faad.exe and socketwrapper.exe). However if added to convert.conf, the line will be lost when next version of SC is installed.

ogg flc * *
# R
[mplayer] -really-quiet -vc null -vo null -cache 128 -af volume=0,resample=44100:0:1,channels=2 -ao pcm:nowaveheader:file=#PIPE# $FILE$ | [flac] -cs --totally-silent --endian=little --channels=2 --sign=signed --bps=16 --sample-rate=44100 --compression-level-0 -

The bandwidth option is not relevant of ogg/flac and possibly the cache can be reduced.

[amcluesent]

>You can add the lines into the convert.conf file...<

working!

foobar2000 reported that the native stream was 48000Hz, so I removed the 'resample=44100:0:1' directive from mplayer and set the flac parameter to 48000.

[Quad]

foobar2000 reported that the native stream was 48000Hz, so I removed the 'resample=44100:0:1' directive from mplayer and set the flac parameter to 48000.

Thanks for that!

A metadata question arised: The OGG stream of D-dur used to have tags if played with native OGG support. If played with mplayer tags are gone. Is there a possibility to make mplayer show tags in Squeezecenter (for OGG and OggFlac)?

[bpa]

Unlike http/icy streams, mplayer doesn't seems to decode the metadata. That said, feeding mplayer metadata back into SC is v. hard.

Prior to 7.3.3 for AACplus support - I used a trick where SC stripped the transport protocol and extracted metadata for display on players and then fed the raw audio stream into mplayer to decode into PCM.

I quickly tried the same approach with the ogg/flac. It didn't work as SC seems to get confused (this is not an expected setup) and wanted to play the stream directly.

[Quad]

Thanks for trying that!

I think the best way to fully implement OggFlac with metadata would be to wait until sox will support that format. Unfortunately it doesn't at the moment.

I'm listening to D-dur at the moment. And my brother is listening to my personal lossless icecast stream. What a joy!

[andyg]

bpa: SC doesn't have any support for parsing an Ogg stream to extract the metadata. That's only in the firmware. Will look at firmware OggFLAC support at some point in the future.

[fitcaz]

Quad,

I too found the Czech station trial when looking for a lossless broadcasts, but could not get through to my hifi via squeezebox. Not being quite so tech savvy on this, how did you fix it to listen to D-dur. Did you just edit the Alien plugin? If so how? Perhaps you could send me the modified plugin file?

Ta Caz

[Quad]

Perhaps you could send me the modified plugin file?

I can send you the plugin I created. It is not part of AlienBBC anymore, it is a plugin on its own based on bpa's AACplus plugin. (I hope he doesn't mind.)

Bear in mind that it is quite an ugly hack and you will lose support for OGG files. I don't have any of them, so it's not a problem for me.

I don't have web space, give me your e-mail by PM and you will get the plugin.

cheers
Quad