Announce: Whitebear Media Server v2.2 Released

[AndrewFG]

I can play mp3s from WMP12 to my Touch, but cannot get Flacs to work. I've tried madFlac, then Win7Codecs 3.5.8, both with WMP Tag Plus installed, but nothing happens.

Can anybody help me with that?

Are you using Whitebear? Or LMS internal DLNA server? (The latter almost certainly won't work...)

[vinhattieu]

I've tried both and none was working.

[papaiannis]

I'd like to have my popcorn c200 media server behaving as a squeezebox player.
Given that c200 supports DLNA/UPnP rendering, may the Whitebear proxy be used to bridge a LMS to my c200?
My ultimate target is to remotely control the c200/squeezeplayer with my Squeezebox Controller.
Any help? Thank you.

[AndrewFG]

I'd like to have my popcorn c200 media server behaving as a squeezebox player.
Given that c200 supports DLNA/UPnP rendering, may the Whitebear proxy be used to bridge a LMS to my c200?
My ultimate target is to remotely control the c200/squeezeplayer with my Squeezebox Controller.
Any help? Thank you.

The Squeezebox Controller is only able to command Logitech devices.

[papaiannis]

The Squeezebox Controller is only able to command Logitech devices.

I thought that the WhiteBear proxy made a UPnP device look like a Logitech device to LMS. Therefore I hoped that my c200 could be selected as the current client in my squeezebox controller.

Please note that I installed a LMS on the c200 and it works like a charm. Could this help in having the c200 behaving like a Logitech device?

Thank you.

[AndrewFG]

I thought that the WhiteBear proxy made a UPnP device look like a Logitech device to LMS.

Wrong!! ( WhiteBear makes Logitech devices look like UPnP devices to UPnP control points... )

[Wigster]

Hi,

I am not sure what happened, but somewhere between my running WB 2.1 (where everything worked) and installing 2.3, the playback of files in the WMP library to the Squeezebox broke. I have tried going back to WB 2.1, but this does not fix the issue anymore. At some point I did update from SBS 7.7.1 which worked to SBS 7.7.3, but I didn't test WB's behaviour then). I am not sure what is going on, but maybe you'll have an idea.

Playback of music from the library being served by WB to SBS through the WMP-12 Play To feature works fine.

When I try to play an MP3 file from the WMP library, the Play To windows opens, the Squeezebox/WB player gets set up, SBS stops playing whatever it was playing and then nothing. In the playlist, the title of the track appears followed by "Contacting media server...". This actually had been happening with FLAC files since version 2.2, but now that I've installed 2.3, it also happens with the MP3s.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

[AndrewFG]

I am not sure what happened, but somewhere between my running WB 2.1 (where everything worked) and installing 2.3, the playback of files in the WMP library to the Squeezebox broke. I have tried going back to WB 2.1, but this does not fix the issue anymore. At some point I did update from SBS 7.7.1 which worked to SBS 7.7.3, but I didn't test WB's behaviour then). I am not sure what is going on, but maybe you'll have an idea.

What type of files are you trying to play from WMP to your SqueezePlayer (by Whitebear)?
In my case, it always worked fine playing WMP native formats to a SqueezePlayer (by Whitebear), but I have never been able to get it to work playing non native WMP formats (say flac) to a SqueezePlayer (by Whitebear). You have in the past claimed that Shark add-in codecs allow this playback, but I have never been able to get the Shark codecs to work. (Perhaps you were mistaken about the Shark codecs ever working?)

[Wigster]

That's the weirdest thing: With version 2.1 (and before) I could play both MP3 and FLAC. Then 2.2 broke the FLAC support and now that I've installed 2.3, mp3s don't work either, it seems in exactly the same way. I've tried going back to no avail, so I've no idea if it's just WB, the fact I changed SBS in the meantime or even the fact that Shark's codes were updated in between.

Playback from Library (by WB) to Squeezebox (by WB) works fine both on MP3 and FLACs being served as PCM.

I've been travelling a lot, so I haven't had as much time to listen to music at home, which is why I am not sure exactly which upgrade/change broke what.

[AndrewFG]

That's the weirdest thing: With version 2.1 (and before) I could play both MP3 and FLAC. Then 2.2 broke the FLAC support and now that I've installed 2.3, mp3s don't work either, it seems in exactly the same way. I've tried going back to no avail, so I've no idea if it's just WB, the fact I changed SBS in the meantime or even the fact that Shark's codes were updated in between.

... I am not sure exactly which upgrade/change broke what.

Please turn on logging of the Whitebear Http Server, and send me the log file.

Edit: It may also help to clean install LMS and Whitebear by fully uninstalling them, and deleting an orphaned folders. Especially if you have ever installed beta versions of LMS and/or the Perl source code versions.